Southwest China, including Yunnan Province, is prone to severe droughts due to the failure of summer monsoon precipitation. Despite the great potential for dendroclimatological studies in Yunnan, there have been very few ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2023
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A new 1,200 year-long time series based on tree rings shows that the current warming is unprecedented during this period. This is reported by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research ...
Environment
Aug 3, 2023
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Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has emerged as the most powerful super-resolution technique for live cell imaging, owing to its inherent advantages of high speed, low phototoxicity, and compatibility with various ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 25, 2023
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A team from the University of Illinois has quantified the plant cell properties in two C4 species, including cell shape, chloroplast size, and distribution of cell-to-cell connections called plasmodesmata, providing information ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 17, 2023
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Coded aperture imaging (CAI) is another incoherent imaging technique developed in the 20th century to achieve lensless 2D imaging with nonvisible wavelengths. In CAI, the light from an object is modulated by a coded mask ...
Optics & Photonics
May 11, 2023
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Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a hybrid imaging technique that combines optical illumination with ultrasound detection for high-resolution imaging of deep tissues. Utilizing the photoacoustic (PA) effect, PAT provides ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 27, 2023
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An Aston University researcher has created the first ever computer reconstruction of a virus, including its complete native genome.
Biotechnology
Jan 20, 2023
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Birds are profoundly important animals. As predators, pollinators, seed dispersers, scavengers and ecosystem bioengineers, the world's 11,000 species of birds play critical roles in the food chain and therefore the existence ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2022
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Researchers have developed a camera that uses a thin microlens array and new image processing algorithms to capture 3D information about objects in a scene with a single exposure. The camera could be useful for a variety ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 7, 2022
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The Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) is in the central part of northern China and covers the entire middle reaches of the Yellow River.
Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2022
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