Every spring, phytoplankton blooms flourish across the ocean. The single-celled, photosynthetic organisms pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produce oxygen—part of a carbon sequestration system known as the biological ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 8, 2021
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IBM researchers have succeeded in guiding visible light through a silicon wire efficiently, an important milestone in the exploration towards a new breed of faster, more efficient logic circuits.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 8, 2021
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A 10-year-old Amur tiger with arthritis underwent hip replacement surgery at a zoo outside Chicago on Wednesday, and her surgical team is confident the procedure will add years to her life.
Veterinary medicine
Jan 28, 2021
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Innovation is key to corporations' success, allowing companies to identify and respond to new market opportunities. In a new analysis, researchers from North Carolina State University compared companies ranked among the world's ...
Economics & Business
Dec 23, 2020
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On the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz light is located between infrared radiation and microwaves. It holds enormous potential for tomorrow's technologies: Among other things, it might succeed 5G by enabling extremely ...
Nanophysics
Dec 18, 2020
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Scientists frequently look at how molecules behave in nature to help them design chemical processes, and that's what QUT and Ghent University researchers did to create a green light-stabilized 3-D polymer structure that unfolds ...
Polymers
Dec 14, 2020
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A drone has been converted into a flying flamethrower in central China in a fiery campaign to eradicate more than 100 wasp nests.
Ecology
Dec 12, 2020
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One of the chief obstacles facing quantum computer designers—correcting the errors that creep into a processor's calculations—could be overcome with a new approach by physicists from the National Institute of Standards ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 9, 2020
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In 2002 Professor Alceu Ranzi (Federal University of Acre) and Prof. Martti Parssinen (University of Helsinki) decided to form an international research team to study large geometric earthworks, called geoglyphs, in the Brazilian ...
Archaeology
Dec 1, 2020
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You're controlling your very own space agency at the dawn of the space age, with the ultimate goal of setting foot on the surface of Mars. Which technologies should you research? Which rockets should you build? Should you ...
Space Exploration
Nov 27, 2020
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