Most humans feel bad about hurting others. This so-called "harm aversion" is key to normal moral development and is reduced in violent antisocial individuals. Unfortunately, little is known about what makes people harm-averse, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2020
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In the past, biologically-active peptides—small proteins like neurotoxins and hormones that act on cell receptors to alter physiology—were purified from native sources like venoms and then panels of variants were produced ...
Biochemistry
Mar 5, 2020
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Recent advances in bioengineering and computational modeling have given researchers the ability to examine complex biological processes with molecular-level detail.
Biotechnology
Mar 3, 2020
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A team of international scientists investigating how to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2-D materials have observed the dependence of the atom's energy on an external magnetic field for the first time.
Condensed Matter
Feb 24, 2020
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In conventional sensing methods, noise is always a problem, especially in systems that are meant to detect changes in their environment that are hardly bigger or even smaller than the noise in the system. Encountering this ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 14, 2020
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A nanoscale gold butterfly provides a more precise route for growing/synthesizing nanosized semiconductors that can be used in nano-lasers and other applications.
Nanophysics
Feb 6, 2020
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Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have proposed a way to use data from ultra-high energy neutrinos to study interactions beyond the standard model of particle physics. The 'Zee burst' model leverages new data ...
General Physics
Jan 31, 2020
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Many drugs are derived from natural products. But before natural products can be exploited, chemists must first determine their structure and stereochemistry. This can be a major challenge, particularly when the molecules ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 22, 2020
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Los Alamos scientists have incorporated meticulously engineered colloidal quantum dots into a new type of light emitting diodes (LEDs) containing an integrated optical resonator, which allows them to function as lasers. These ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 14, 2020
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Researchers at QuTech, a collaboration of TU Delft and TNO, have developed a new magnetic quantum sensing technology that can image samples with atomic-scale resolution. It opens the door towards imaging individual molecules, ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 19, 2019
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