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Unlocking Photosynthesis: Georgia Tech Chemists Explore Oxygen Production

Though chlorophyll is the best-known part, for the vivid green it colors nature, many compounds work together in photosynthesis. And Georgia Tech chemists…

Information Technology

AI senses people's pose through walls

Their latest project, “RF-Pose,” uses artificial intelligence (AI) to teach wireless devices to sense people's postures and movement, even from the other side…

Life & Chemistry

Why Zika is not an STD – Semen inhibits Zika virus infection

The Zika virus, which is particularly prevalent in Central and South America as well as the Pacific islands, can cause severe courses of meningitis and serious…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Second Heat Source Enhances Heat Pump Efficiency

Exhaust air supplies heat at a comparatively high temperature level and leads to favourable system costs. The scientists tested the interaction of the heat…

Materials Sciences

Ordered Magnetic Patterns Discovered in Disordered Materials

A team of scientists working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has confirmed a special property known as…

Life & Chemistry

MSU Scientists Unveil Antioxidants to Slow Plant Senescence

ROS are frequently formed in mitochondria – the power factories of the cells. Mitochondria-targeted antioxidants, including SkQ ions, affect mitochondria…

Life & Chemistry

Mapping the Nucleus: Unveiling DNA’s Compact Design

Nestled deep in each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six feet of DNA is packaged into a tiny space 50 times smaller than the width of a human…

Life & Chemistry

New French-Austrian Research Projects Launch at IST Austria

Two joint projects between labs at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria and at French research institutes, funded by the Austrian Science Fund…

Information Technology

Silicon Quantum Chip Controls Qubits for Faster Algorithms

A silicon quantum computer chip has the potential to hold millions of quantum bits, or qubits, for much faster information processing than with the bits of…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Technique Images 10,421 Genes in Single Cells

A breakthrough new technique enables scientists to image 10,421 genes at once within individual cells.

Life & Chemistry

Understanding anxiety – Neural circuit mechanisms of emotion identified

In a previous study, published in Science in 2011, Jan Deussing’s group revealed for the first time that corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) signaling in…

Physics & Astronomy

Unlocking Ice on Spin Liquid: New Insights Into Magnetic Moments

Macroscopic analogies go a long way in elucidating magnetic phenomena. Magnetic moments in solids can be usually thought of as being in the crystalline…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New insight into why Pierce's disease is so deadly to grapevines

Scientists are gaining a better understanding of Pierce's disease and how it affects grapevines. The disease, which annually costs California more than $100…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Measures Energy in Microscopic Machines

What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call “free energy,” essentially the energy that can be extracted…

Life & Chemistry

Bipolar Disorder Linked to Mitochondrial Disease Mutation

Mitochondria are the vital organelles that deliver energy to all cells and mitochondrial damage has been found, for example, in brain imaging of bipolar…

Materials Sciences

Rutgers Physicists Develop New Class of 2D Artificial Materials

In 1965, a renowned Princeton University physicist theorized that ferroelectric metals could conduct electricity despite not existing in nature.

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