The ancient Indus civilization’s adaptation to climate change
With climate change in our own era becoming increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors may have dealt with similar environmental circumstances. New...
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New system for therapeutic gene delivery increases transgene expression up to 100-fold
Credit: ©2017, Mary Ann Liebert Inc, publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 27, 2017 -- Advanced engineering of a mini-intronic plasmid (MIP) system designed to carry...
Absorbing electromagnetic energy while avoiding the heat
Credit: Willie Padilla, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Electrical engineers at Duke University have created the world's first electromagnetic metamaterial made without any metal. The...
Physics: Toward a practical nuclear pendulum
Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Munich have, for the first time, measured the lifetime of an excited state in the nucleus of an unstable element. This...
Star birth with a chance of Winds?
Credit: Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), is home to a variety of deep-sky objects -- including...
PPPL scientist uncovers physics behind plasma-etching process
Credit: Elle Starkman Physicist Igor Kaganovich at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators have uncovered some of the physics...
Andalusian scientists reconstruct what the Gibraltar Arc was like 9 million years ago
Credit: NASA A team of Andalusian scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), has been able to reconstruct for the first time what the...
New ‘needle-pulse’ beam pattern packs a punch
Credit: Photo by J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester A new beam pattern devised by University of Rochester researchers could bring unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and...
A new approach to 3-D holographic displays greatly improves the image quality
Daejeon, Republic of Korea, January 27, 2016--The potential applications of three-dimensional (3D) digital holograms are enormous. In addition to arts and entertainment, various fields including...
Chiral quantum optics: A new research field with bright perspectives
Credit: TU Wien Recently, surprising physical effects were observed using special microscopic waveguides for light. Such "photonic structures" currently are revolutionizing the fields of optics...
Nordic countries are bringing about an energy transition worth copying
What can we learn from the Nordic low-carbon energy transition given the new US leadership vacuum on climate change? A new study by Professor Benjamin...
Diverse natural fatty acids follow ‘Golden Mean’
Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena (Germany) Mild in flavour and of great nutritional value: the light-yellow vegetable oil pressed from sunflower seeds has a wide range...
When life sciences become data sciences
Credit: Photo: Patrick Seeger The University of Freiburg has set up infrastructure and services to support researchers across Europe in the fields of biology, medicine,...
Sciences for art
Conservation and preservation of historical monuments as well as of single artworks of our cultural heritage are receiving increasing attention. In the online magazine ChemViews,...
Why people are so good at spotting product downsizing and so bad at judging supersizing
But whenever a brand tries to shave a few percentages off the size of their product, consumers immediately notice and complain. The latest revolt occurred...
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