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Physicists build diagnostic that measures plasma velocity in real time
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a diagnostic that provides crucial real-time information about the...
Lab-grown mini lungs successfully transplanted into mice
Researchers at the University of Michigan have transplanted lab-grown mini lungs into immunosuppressed mice where the structures were able to survive, grow and mature.
"In...
The thinnest photodetector in the world
(top) Devices with one-layer and seven-layer MoS2 were built on top of a silicon base and compared. Dielectric constants responsible for the difference in...
Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals to be made of recycled metals
Image Credit: Wikipedia
The medals to be distributed to athletes at 2020 Tokyo Olympic will be made from recycled and obsolete electronic products, organizers announced...
Nano-scale electronics score laboratory victory
At just one atom thick, tungsten disulfide allows energy to switch off and on -- important for nano-scale electronic transistors -- but it also...
Computers made of genetic material? Researchers conduct electricity using DNA-based nanowires
Scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf conducted electricity through DNA-based nanowires by placing gold-plated nanoparticles on them. In this way it could become possible to develop...
Scientists probe underground depths of Earth’s carbon cycle
Carbon in the fluid of the Earth’s mantle is not in the form of carbon dioxide but rather in carbonate and bicarbonate ions, researchers...
Sculpting Solar Systems
These three planetary discs have been observed with the SPHERE instrument, mounted on ESO's Very Large Telescope. The observations were made in order to...
A zeptosecond stopwatch for the microcosm
Once a photon has ejected an electron from a helium atom, it is possible to calculate the probable position of the remaining electron. The...
Evolution purged many Neanderthal genes from human genome
Evolution purged many Neanderthal genes from human genome. Credit: Jaysmark, Flickr, CC BY
Larger populations allowed humans to shed weakly deleterious gene variants that were...
Big data shows people’s collective behavior follows strong periodic patterns
Social network diagram. Credit: Daniel Tenerife/Wikipedia
New research has revealed that by using big data to analyse massive data sets of modern and historical news,...
