Researchers at Duke University have implemented a quantum-based method to observe a quantum effect in the way light-absorbing molecules interact with incoming photons. Known as a conical intersection, the effect puts limitations ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 28, 2023
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What effect do election processes, protests, social media, electoral rules, integrity, and voter outcomes have on an incumbent's decision to respect an election result or fight to retain office? A paper published in the Journal ...
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2023
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Whenever the precision of a measurement approaches the uncertainty limit defined by quantum mechanics, the outcomes of the measurement depend on the dynamics of the interactions with the meter used to determine a physical ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 24, 2023
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Consider a living cell, which can have thousands of genes. Now think of these genes as dials that can be tweaked to change how the cell grows in a given environment. Tweaking a gene can either increase or decrease growth, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 23, 2023
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The ability to utilize a mere single alternative food source is all it takes for diarrhea-causing Salmonella bacteria to bloom when a gut is already colonized by a closely related strain, according to researchers from ETH ...
Ecology
Aug 21, 2023
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Climate change-denying social media accounts are exploiting the deadly wildfires in Hawaii to push conspiracy theories that high-energy lasers were used to spark the flames.
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2023
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Anything made out of plastic or glass is known as an amorphous material. Unlike many materials that freeze into crystalline solids, the atoms and molecules in amorphous materials never stack together to form crystals when ...
Condensed Matter
Aug 15, 2023
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Misinformation pervades U.S. politics.
Political science
Aug 15, 2023
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According to contributing authors in a new book on music for animation, some versions of the popular educational franchise Carmen Sandiego serve to "corroborate the power structures connoted in exoticist and imperialist narratives."
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2023
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Rock bursts, commonly associated with coal mining activities, involve the abrupt release of elastic energy from rock masses. Recognized as a major challenge in mining engineering and rock mechanics worldwide, they can lead ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2023
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