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Study Links Shorter Sleep and Sugar-Sweetened Drink Consumption

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Image Credit: Flickr/kipsoep People who sleep five or fewer hours a night are likely to also drink significantly more sugary caffeinated drinks, such as sodas...

Physicists build diagnostic that measures plasma velocity in real time

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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

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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

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(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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...