Using optics to trace the flow of microplastics in oceans
Microplastics are tiny plastic particles less than 5 mm in diameter that have emerged as a novel marine environment pollutant. ...
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A breakthrough in big data processing helps trace chemicals in complex mixtures
An international team of scientists led by Tomáš Pluskal from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech ...
A Mass General team is the first to trace a rare smooth muscle disorder to a single mutation in a non-coding gene
BOSTON – A team of investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of Mass General Brigham (MGB) and Mass ...
Is the middle Cambrian Brooksella a hexactinellid sponge, trace fossil or pseudofossil?
More than 100 years ago, Charles Doolittle Walcott from the Smithsonian Institution was asked to examine strange star-shaped fossils with ...
New spectroscopy technique improves trace element detection in liquid
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a rapid chemical analysis technology that has been well developed for trace element analyses in ...
Hackmanite changes color also upon exposure to nuclear radiation – memory trace from radiation enables new applications
Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, have long studied the color-changing properties of the natural mineral hackmanite upon exposure ...
No trace of dark matter halos
Dwarf galaxies are small, faint galaxies that can usually be found in galaxy clusters or near larger galaxies. Because of ...
Scientists trace earliest cases of COVID-19 to market in Wuhan, China
An international team of 18 researchers, including a scientist at University of Utah Health, have determined that the earliest cases ...
Ice Age wolf DNA reveals dogs trace ancestry to two separate wolf populations
An international group of geneticists and archaeologists, led by the Francis Crick Institute, have found that the ancestry of dogs ...
Stalagmites trace climate history and impact from volcanic eruptions
The soils and vegetation of Patagonia's fjord regions form a unique and highly sensitive ecosystem that is closely linked to ...
Fast and easy protein analysis from trace amounts of cell samples
In recent years, proteomics research using mass spectrometry to comprehensively investigate the protein components of biological samples has become very ...
Boron isotope helps to trace fluid processes in subduction zone
Subduction zone fluids are the key carrier for element migration and matter cycles between the crust and mantle of the ...
Scientists trace the path of radioactive cesium in the ecosystem of Fukushima
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear accident, the Japanese government performed intensive decontamination in the human-occupied parts of the ...
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The “Stonehenge calendar” shown to be a modern construct
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Spotted lanternfly spreads by hitching a ride with humans
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Light meets deep learning: computing fast enough for next-gen AI
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Remains of a modern glacier found near mars’ equator implies water ice possibly present at low latitudes on Mars even today
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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“Glassiness” and “blurriness” might explain the behavior of high-entropy superconductors