An unprecedented imaging analysis of cyanobacteria provided new insights into its structure and organization that could help synthetically replicate photosynthesis. This could have a range of biotechnological applications ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 5, 2023
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Our new study published in Nature Geoscience on an ancient chain of Australian volcanoes is helping to change our understanding of "hotspot" volcanism.
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2023
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Oxygen is the key substance for life and one of the most abundant elements in the Earth. However, it's still unknown whether oxygen is present (and in which form it may exist) in the inner core, which is composed of almost ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 13, 2022
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Invented in 1970 by Corning Incorporated, low-loss optical fiber became the best means to efficiently transport information from one place to another over long distances without loss of information. The most common way of ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 23, 2022
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A broad array of cultural practices—from the construction of stone tools to the conventions of religious rituals—are highly stable over long periods of time. One might assume that such persistent cultural knowledge is ...
Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2022
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From designing new biomaterials to novel photonic devices, new materials built through a process called bottom-up nanofabrication, or self-assembly, are opening up pathways to new technologies with properties tuned at the ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 13, 2022
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The development of experimental platforms that advance the field of quantum science and technology (QIST) comes with a unique set of advantages and challenges common to any emergent technology. Researchers at Stony Brook ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 6, 2022
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A combined team of researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has found evidence that Mars has a Chandler wobble. In their paper published in the ...
When UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Omar Saleh and graduate student Ian Morgan sought to understand the mechanical behaviors of disordered proteins in the lab, they expected that after being stretched, one particular ...
General Physics
Aug 25, 2020
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Insect infestation is becoming an increasingly costly problem to the forestry industry, especially in areas experiencing increased droughts and hot spells related to climate change. A new terahertz imaging technique could ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 25, 2019
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