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Life & Chemistry

Exploring Pollen Distribution: Comparing Traps and Mobile Lidar

Until August, the researchers want to compare a common pollen trap with a mobile lidar (light radar) in order to find out whether it is possible to distinguish…

Life & Chemistry

Modeling predicts blue whales' foraging behavior, aiding population management efforts

The statistical model used for the predictions combines long-term satellite tracking data of the whales' movement patterns with environmental data such as…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Visualizing Electrical Gating Effects on Electron Structure

Physicists from the University of Warwick and the University of Washington have developed a technique to measure the energy and momentum of electrons in…

Life & Chemistry

How Plant Viruses Are Shaping Our Ecosystems and Agriculture

Viruses are justly feared as ingenious pathogens, causing diseases in everything they invade, including virtually all bacteria, fungi, plants and animals.

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene Superconductor Plays Multiple Tunes in New Breakthrough

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a graphene device that's thinner than a…

Life & Chemistry

Ants Protect Plants While Enjoying Sugar and Protein Benefits

Biologists Laura Carolina Leal and Felipe Passos performed a series of experiments in Brazil's Northeast region – specifically in the interior of Bahia State,…

Life & Chemistry

'Trojan horse' anticancer drug disguises itself as fat

A stealthy new drug-delivery system disguises chemotherapeutics as fat in order to outsmart, penetrate and destroy tumors.

Earth Sciences

Preventing West Antarctic Ice Collapse with Snowy Ocean Water

A team of researchers from the Potsdam Institute is now scrutinising a daring way of stabilising the ice sheet: Generating trillions of tons of additional…

Life & Chemistry

Leukemia Stem Cells: How They Evade Danger Detection

Patients treated for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) often achieve remission but then later experience relapses due to surviving subpopulations of leukemia stem…

Materials Sciences

Black Plastics Recycled Into Renewable Energy Solutions

Research from Swansea University has found how plastics commonly found in food packaging can be recycled to create new materials like wires for electricity -…

Earth Sciences

New Radar Technology Tracks Arctic Sea Level Rise

Over the past 22 years, sea levels in the Arctic have risen an average of 2.2 millimeters per year. This is the conclusion of a Danish-German research team…

Information Technology

Researchers build transistor-like gate for quantum information processing — with qudits

Quantum information processing promises to be much faster and more secure than what today's supercomputers can achieve, but doesn't exist yet because its…

Materials Sciences

UCLouvain Develops New Battery Material for Future Energy

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Life & Chemistry

p38 Protein’s Role in New Blood Vessel Formation Uncovered

The team led by Ángel R. Nebreda, head of the Signalling and Cell Cycle Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, has shown that the activity of p38 is important in…

Physics & Astronomy

New Method to Manipulate Molecular Oxygen Charge

While pinning down a single oxygen atom sounds difficult, trying to then manipulate electrons associated with that single atom to alter its charge sounds…

Physics & Astronomy

New Tech Harvests Energy from Your Knee While You Walk

Imagine powering your devices by walking. With technology recently developed by a group of researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, that possibility…

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