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Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought

Their findings suggest that the early ocean was much more temperate and that, as a result, life likely diversified and spread across the globe much sooner in…

Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change

According to Stone’s paper, as the international community meets in Copenhagen in December to develop a new framework for responding to climate change,…

NOAA deploys new 'smart buoy' off Annapolis

NOAA deployed the seventh in a series of “smart buoys” to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay today.The buoy, located at the…

Right first time: Pioneering new methods of drug manufacture

Ensuring drug crystals are formed correctly is crucial to their efficacy and the efficiency of pharmaceutical manufacturers' operations. Using self-assembled…

When seconds count: Interventional radiology treatment for pulmonary embolism saves lives

Catheter-directed therapy or catheter-directed thrombolysis—an interventional radiology treatment that uses targeted image-guided drug delivery with specially…

Compact and flexible code reading system for industrial applications

The compact device with high IP67 degree of protection can read both standard high-contrast codes as well as DPM (direct parts marking) codes even under…

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Physics and Astronomy

Microscopic basis of a new form of quantum magnetism

Not all magnets are the same. When we think of magnetism, we often think of magnets that stick to a refrigerator’s door. For these types of magnets, the electronic interactions…

Caution, hot surface!

An international research team from the University of Jena and the Helmholtz Institute Jena are demystifying the mechanisms by which high-intensity laser pulses produce plasma on the surface of solids….

Quantum breakthrough sheds light on perplexing high-temperature superconductors

Using the Hubbard model, Flatiron Institute senior research scientist Shiwei Zhang and his colleagues have computationally re-created key features of the superconductivity in materials called cuprates that have puzzled scientists…

Life Sciences and Chemistry

An epigenome editing toolkit to dissect the mechanisms of gene regulation

A study from the Hackett group at EMBL Rome led to the development of a powerful epigenetic editing technology, which unlocks the ability to precisely program chromatin modifications. Understanding how…

First model of the brain’s information highways developed

Our human brain is not only bigger and contains more neurons than the brains of other species, but it is also connected in a special pattern: Thick bundles of neurons…

Why getting in touch with our ‘gerbil brain’ could help machines listen better

Macquarie University researchers have debunked a 75-year-old theory about how humans determine where sounds are coming from, and it could unlock the secret to creating a next generation of more…

Materials Sciences

New tech may lead to smaller, more powerful wireless devices

Good vibrations… What if your earbuds could do everything your smartphone can do already, except better? What sounds a bit like science fiction may actually not be so far off….

Columbia researchers “unzip” 2D materials with lasers

The new technique can modify the nanostructure of bulk and 2D crystals without a cleanroom or expensive etching equipment. In a new paper published on May 1 in the journal…

Tweaking isotopes sheds light on promising approach to engineer semiconductors

Research led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that small changes in the isotopic content of thin semiconductor materials can influence their optical…

Information Technology

Exploring the Asteroid Apophis With Small Satellites

In five years’ time, a large asteroid will fly very close to Earth – a unique opportunity to study it. Concepts for a national German small satellite mission are being…

A new, low-cost, high-efficiency photonic integrated circuit

The rapid advancement in photonic integrated circuits (PICs), whichcombine multiple optical devices and functionalities on a single chip, has revolutionized optical communications and computing systems. For decades, silicon-based PICs have…

Experiment opens door for millions of qubits on one chip

Researchers from the University of Basel and the NCCR SPIN have achieved the first controllable interaction between two hole spin qubits in a conventional silicon transistor. The breakthrough opens up…