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Creating Spines from Sea Water: Nature’s Ingenious Solution

Some sea creatures cover themselves with hard shells and spines, while vertebrates build skeletons out of the same minerals. How do these animals get the…

Physics & Astronomy

Understanding Heat Loss in Fusion Devices: Key Findings

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have been studying SEE for decades, and in the past year have…

Materials Sciences

Gold-Plated Crystals Enhance Natural Gas Detector Performance

Materials scientists and engineers have developed a sensor that is fast, sensitive and efficient enough to detect specific wavelengths of electromagnetic…

Life & Chemistry

Salk Scientists Enhance Stem Cell Potential for Tissue Regrowth

Now, scientists at the Salk Institute, in collaboration with researchers from Peking University, in China, are reporting their discovery of a chemical cocktail…

Life & Chemistry

New Model Explains Emergence of Biological Diversity at Graz

“It very rarely happens in nature that a new phenotype, that developed as a result of cross-breeding, continues to persist over many generations”, says…

Earth Sciences

A NASA infrared look at the Southern Indian Ocean's 15th tropical cyclone

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite looked at Tropical Cyclone 15S in infrared light. Infrared light provides…

Earth Sciences

New Canopy Radiative Transfer Model Enhances Land Surface Radiation

However, the canopy varies geographically from that of dense tropical forests to the shrublands of arid desert lands, and temporally from the vibrancy of…

Materials Sciences

Ultrathin Superconducting Film Boosts Space Tech Applications

The Volkswagen Foundation supported the research in it is initial stages; the work is currently receiving funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Materials Sciences

Artificial Topological Matter: Paving New Research Avenues

“This is an exciting new direction in topological matter research,” said M. Zahid Hasan, professor of physics at Princeton University and an investigator at…

Physics & Astronomy

DIII-D Experiments Unveil Insights on Plasma Flow Dynamics

The results, reported in January in the journal Physical Review Letters, use first principles-based plasma turbulence simulations of experiments performed on…

Health & Medicine

New Marburg Virus Treatment Works Even After Five Days

An antibody treatment successfully protected nonhuman primates against the deadly Marburg and Ravn viruses even when given five days after becoming infected,…

Life & Chemistry

New Electrochemical Sensor Uses Molecular Memory Polymers

Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have elaborated an electrochemical sensor on the basis of polymers with…

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Exploring Acoustic Innovations in 3D Model Technology

What do heavy production machinery, such as milling machines or CNC cutting machines, and household appliances, like washing machines or hair dryers, have in…

Physics & Astronomy

New Quantum-Physical Model System Unveiled at Heidelberg University

Two researchers at Heidelberg University have developed a model system that enables a better understanding of the processes in a quantum-physical experiment…

Life & Chemistry

When peaceful coexistence turns into competition – Impacts of climate change on the natural world

When temperatures rise, the complex relationships between species are changing. Prey species not only become stronger competitors for scarce resources, but…

Physics & Astronomy

GERDA Experiment Set to Unveil Rare Radioactive Decay Insights

Neutrinos are ghostly particles which are extremely hard to detect. They play a central role in how the sun burns, how supernovae explode and how elements are…

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