What does it take for scientists to push beyond the current limits of knowledge? Researchers in Federico Capasso's group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed an effective ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 2, 2023
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If she hits just the right pitch, a singer can shatter a wine glass. The reason is resonance. While the glass may vibrate slightly in response to most acoustic tones, a pitch that resonates with the material's own natural ...
General Physics
Feb 1, 2023
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In the search for new forces and interactions beyond the Standard Model, an international team of researchers involving the PRISMA Cluster of Excellence at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 1, 2023
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A first-of-its-kind study scanned the brains of dozens of politically involved participants while they watched campaign-ads and speeches by parties from both ends of the political spectrum, just before one of the last rounds ...
Political science
Jan 30, 2023
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New research has uncovered the secret of how plants make limonoids, a family of valuable organic chemicals that include bee-friendly insecticides and have potential as anti-cancer drugs.
Biochemistry
Jan 26, 2023
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Microchip fab plants in the United States can cram billions of data processing transistors onto a tiny silicon chip, but a critical device, in essence a "clock," to time the operation of those transistors must be made separately—creating ...
General Physics
Jan 25, 2023
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Developing new antifungal treatments is a rising health priority due to an alarming rise in multidrug-resistant fungal "superbugs" that evade medications clinicians have relied on for decades.
Biochemistry
Jan 25, 2023
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New mapping of the cuttlefish brain could explain how and why the marine animal employs its distinct camouflage ability according to researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ).
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2023
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Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Nano Letters how high-speed atomic force microscopy can be used to assess the effectivity of spike-neutralizing antibodies for preventing COVID-19. The use of such antibodies offers ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 20, 2023
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In salt water solutions, water molecules rapidly move around salt ions at a scale of more than a trillion times a second, according to both experiments and simulations led by scientists at New York University and the Sorbonne.
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 19, 2023
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