A team from Osaka City University, in collaboration with other international partners, has demonstrated a reliable, precise, microscope-based thermometer using quantum technology that measures the temperature fo microscopic ...
Nanophysics
Sep 11, 2020
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Researchers have developed a tiny fiber optic force sensor that can measure extremely slight forces exerted by small objects. The new light-based sensor overcomes the limitations of force sensors based on micro-electro-mechanical ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 8, 2020
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Scientists have been concerned about a gap in satellite data that was being used to monitor mass balance changes of the world's glaciers. Using alternative data, a new study has helped to fill the gap, creating a continuous ...
Environment
Sep 4, 2020
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Breeding programs for crops with limited per-plant seed yield require one or more generations of seed increase to generate sufficient quantities for sowing replicated yield trials. The ability to accurately discard low potential ...
Biotechnology
Sep 3, 2020
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Small particles known as aerosols suspended in the Earth's atmosphere can degrade visibility, affect human health and influence the climate.
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2020
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Geophysicist Marco Tedesco has an affinity for ice in all its forms–snow, glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice–and has spent his career exploring its qualities and fates. He has worked in Antarctica and the United States, but ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2020
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The "invisible" words that shaped Dickens classics also lead audiences through Spielberg dramas. And according to new research, these small words can be found in a similar pattern across most storylines, no matter the length ...
Social Sciences
Aug 7, 2020
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Models based on images from unmanned aerial vehicles and satellites can help farmers to monitor the health of individual trees.
Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2020
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A new technology that can allow for better light control without requiring large, difficult-to-integrate materials and structures has been developed by Penn State researchers. The new photonic integrated chip could allow ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 23, 2020
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Archaeologists said Monday that they have discovered a major prehistoric monument under the earth near Stonehenge that could shed new light on the origins of the mystical stone circle in southwestern England.
Archaeology
Jun 22, 2020
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