A team of international researchers, including scientists from the University of St Andrews, has created a micro-refrigerator the size of a blood cell to cool adjacent objects, which could have major applications in quantum ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 25, 2022
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A new study shows that 87 genes have been affected by deletions or short insertions during the course of the mammoth's evolution. The researchers note that their findings have implications for international efforts to resurrect ...
Evolution
Aug 10, 2022
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South Africans gave a warm welcome to President Cyril Ramaphosa's recent announcement about a "set of actions" to respond to the energy crisis in the country.
Political science
Aug 4, 2022
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Superconductors, materials that can conduct electricity with no resistance at low temperatures, have many interesting and advantageous properties. In recent years, physicists and computer scientists have been investigating ...
For the first time, plant biologists have defined the high-efficiency "hacks" that cannabis cells use to make cannabinoids (THC/CBD). Although many biotechnology companies are currently trying to engineer THC/CBD outside ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 2, 2022
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The photoelectric effect is one of the most fundamental light-matter interactions, which is widely used in probing ultrafast dynamics in atoms, molecules and condensed matters. It has been in the research spotlight for more ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 24, 2022
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab in Sweden describe in a study published in Science how they have improved the ability of a protein to repair oxidative DNA damage and created a new protein function. Their ...
Biochemistry
Jun 23, 2022
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The past decade has seen enormous advances in the understanding of regulatory noncoding RNAs, according to a Northwestern Medicine review published in Molecular Cell.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 13, 2022
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Rice University photonics researchers have created a potentially disruptive technology for the ultraviolet optics market.
Optics & Photonics
May 5, 2022
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To the untrained eye, the small community garden on Coast and Straits Salish territory—on what passersby commonly know as the University of Victoria campus—might look unruly. Bursting with dandelions, lamb's ear and grasses, ...
Education
Apr 26, 2022
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