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Physics & Astronomy

Novel X-Ray Lens Enhances Imaging of Nano World

A team led by DESY scientists has designed, fabricated and successfully tested a novel X-ray lens that produces sharper and brighter images of the nano world….

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Baltic Sea Nations Innovate Nutrient Management for Farmers

Advancing nutrient management to the routine practices of agricultural production, including in manure fertilization, is a leading topic in the meeting of the…

Physics & Astronomy

First Success in Orbiting Cryogenic Molecules by Physicists

After years of development and construction work, physicists of the MPI for Nuclear Physics now for the first time succeeded to hold negatively charged…

Studies and Analyses

Hybridising electricity grids with solar photovoltaic (PV) saves costs – New FS UNEP Study

On the basis of seven case studies in as many countries, this study finds that financing costs for a hybridisation project can be a major driver of electricity…

Earth Sciences

Eastern Pacific’s First Tropical Depression Emerges at Dawn

An image of the storm taken from NOAA's GOES-West satellite shows the depression in infrared light as it was born in the early morning hours before sunrise.

Life & Chemistry

Quasi-Sexual Gene Transfer Boosts Genetic Diversity in Hot Spring Bacteria

New work from a team including Carnegie's Devaki Bhaya and Michelle Davison used massive DNA sequencing of bacterial populations that grow in the hot springs…

Life & Chemistry

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Enhance Gray Whale Research

One recent spring day, John Durban, a NOAA Fisheries marine mammal biologist, stood on the California coast and launched an unmanned aerial vehicle into the…

Physics & Astronomy

Superdense Quantum Teleportation: The Math Behind It

Quantum teleportation is a method of communicating information from one location to another without moving the physical matter to which the information is…

Materials Sciences

OSU Study Reveals Magnetism’s Control Over Heat and Sound

Phonons–the elemental particles that transmit both heat and sound–have magnetic properties, according to a landmark study supported by Ohio Supercomputer…

Life & Chemistry

How Plants Defend Against Bacteria: Insights into Evolution

Plants are continuously besieged by viruses, fungi and bacteria. This is the reason why immune responses have developed in the course of evolution with which…

Health & Medicine

Portable Finger-Probe Device Enhances Liver Function Assessment

A portable, finger-probe device successfully measured liver function in brain dead adult organ donors, a finding that could change the way organs are assessed…

Life & Chemistry

Plants Evolve: The Science Behind Carnivorous Species

Carnivorous plants such as the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) grow in environments with extremely low nutrition. In order to survive there, they have…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Measure Atom Interaction with Carbon Surfaces

A team led by David Cobden, UW professor of physics, used a carbon nanotube — a seamless, hollow graphite structure a million times thinner than a drinking…

Life & Chemistry

Godwits are flexible…when they get the chance

Black-tailed godwits are able to cope with unpredictable weather. This was revealed by a thorough analysis of the extraordinary spring of 2013 by ecologist…

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Lasers Transform Lightweight Construction Techniques

Lightweight construction materials are popular: aluminum is used in the bodywork of cars, for example, and aircraft fuselages already consist in large part of…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Comet Assembly from Computer Simulations

In a video sequence based on a computer simulation two icy spheres with a diameter of about one kilometer are moving towards each other. They collide at…

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