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Increasing optical data transmission speed
Pulsed lasers repeatedly emit light for a short period of time as if blinking. They have the advantage of focusing more energy than a...
Exploration of toxic Tiger Rattlesnake venom advances use of genetic science techniques
The Tiger Rattlesnake possesses the simplest, yet most toxic venom of any rattlesnake species, and now new research from a team lead by a...
Going with the grains to explain a fundamental tectonic force
A new study suggests that tiny, mineral grains—squeezed and mixed over millions of years—set in motion the chain of events that plunge massive tectonic...
Engineers create ‘smart’ aerogel that turns air into drinking water
Some say future wars will be fought over water, and a billion people around the world are already struggling to find enough water to...
Nano-thin piezoelectrics advance self-powered electronics
The flexible and printable piezoelectric material, which can convert mechanical pressure into electrical energy, has been developed by an Australian research team led by RMIT...
Genesis of blue lightning into the stratosphere detected from ISS
Dark clouds, the smell of rain on a hot sidewalk, the flashes of intense light followed by a loud crackling and then a low,...
What the lungfishes’ genome teaches us about the vertebrates’ conquest of land
Using cutting-edge DNA sequencing technologies, a group of laboratories in Konstanz, Würzburg, Hamburg and Vienna, led by evolutionary biologist Professor Axel Meyer from the...
Using 100-million-year-old fossils and gravitational-wave science to predict Earth’s future climate
A group of international scientists, including an Australian astrophysicist, has used findings from gravitational wave astronomy (used to find black holes in space) to...
Light-induced twisting of Weyl nodes switches on giant electron current
Weyl and Dirac semimetals can host exotic, nearly dissipationless, electron conduction properties that take advantage of the unique state in the crystal lattice and electronic structure...
All-purpose dinosaur opening reconstructed for first time
For the first time ever, a team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have described in detail a dinosaur's cloacal or vent...
Mystery of Martian glaciers revealed
In a new paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academies of ScienceS (PNAS), planetary geologist Joe Levy, assistant professor of geology at Colgate...
