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How fire-loving fungi learned to eat charcoal
Wildfire causes most living things to flee or die, but some fungi thrive afterward, even feasting on charred remains. New University of California, Riverside re...
Light-based nanotechnology offers potential alternative to chemotherapy and radiation
Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed a new light-based nanotechnology that could improve how certain cancers are detected and treated, offering a more pr...
Prototype cassettes mark key step toward new CMS high-granularity calorimeter
In beehives on the CERN site, a buzzing team of bees collaborates to build hexagon after hexagon of honeycomb—a shape that allows the most honey for a given amo...
Mapping 'figure 8' Fermi surfaces to pinpoint future chiral conductors
One of the biggest problems facing modern microelectronics is that computer chips can no longer be made arbitrarily smaller and more efficient. Materials used t...
When Toronto paused for COVID, a key 'forever chemical' rapidly declined
A new study out of York University has found that the amount of atmospheric trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), the tiniest forever chemical, significantly declined in...
Real-time imaging captures contact between cells and between a single neuron's extensions
Living organisms are made up of hundreds of thousands of cells that cooperate to create the organs and systems that breathe, eat, move, and think. Now, research...
NASA researchers probe tangled magnetospheres of merging neutron stars
New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of interacting magnetic struc...
New map of the Milky Way's magnetism offers insights into cosmic evolution
A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's magnetic field, revealing that it i...
Bacterial 'brains' operate on the brink of order and disorder
The sensory proteins that control the motion of bacteria constantly fluctuate. AMOLF researchers, together with international collaborators from ETH Zurich and...
Kangaroo and wallaby evolution tied to Australia's past climate shifts
A QUT-led study has found how increasing aridity and habitat variation and the subsequent emergence of grasslands shaped the evolution of modern kangaroos and w...
Refractive-index microscope measures a sample's optical properties with pinpoint accuracy
By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a sample with pinpoint accuracy. The origi...
Scientists develop high-performance Hg-based crystal for mid-far infrared birefringence
Mid- and far-infrared birefringent crystals are key functional materials for polarization control, laser technologies, and infrared photonics. However, existing...