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(University of Ottawa) Professor Mark Hannington of the University of Ottawa's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and his team have just received a $1.65-million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineerin...

(Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, Chinese Academy) Enhancing magneto-optical effects is crucial for the size reduction of key photonic devices based on non-reciprocal pr...

Mars's moon Phobos may go through cycles where it is smashed up and becomes a ring around the planet, only to coalesce into a solid moon again

Tiny traces of ancient DNA in Dead Sea Scrolls could help scientists piece the fragments together.

COSMOS, a newly developed optical technique, can simultaneously record the activity of neurons across the entire top surface of a mouse's cerebral cortex.

Researchers synthesized 3D fuzzy graphene on a nanowire template to create new material for photothermally stimulating cells.

A new study reveals COVID-19 infection rates may correlate with seasonality. Lower humidity is associated with an increase in locally acquired positive cases of coronavirus. The study reports a 1% decrease in humidity co...

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The WHO-backed study found that face masks and eye protection really do prevent spread of COVID-19.

Dopamine D2 receptor overexpression in cholinergic interneurons of the nucleus accumbens may explain why some are more prone to cocaine addiction than others.

When hippocampal firing rates are high before exposure to a learning task, people are better able to successfully encode memory. Findings suggest the hippocampus may have a "ready to encode" mode that facilitates memory ...

The Quantum Hall effect (QHE) is one of the most important discoveries in physical sciences. Due to the one-dimensional (1-D) dissipationless edge states, QHE exhibits exotic transport properties with quantized Hall resi...

The protests that have engulfed American cities in the past week are rooted in decades of frustrations. African Americans have protested against these injustices going back as far as the post-Civil War days in the 1870s.

Fossil brachiopods from China were crusted with parasites, which may have hijacked their hosts' feeding structures in order to steal their dinner.

Hundreds of fossil animals that lived more than 500 million years ago had worm-like objects attached to them - the oldest hard evidence of parasitism

Analysis of DNA traces found on fragments of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls is helping to piece them together, providing new insights into the history of Judaism and Christianity

Humans cells can be genetically engineered to produce a squid protein that changes how transparent they are, which could lead to see-through patches of tissue

Innovative technologies are the key to tackling some of society's key challenges--and many of these technologies have an optical system at their core. Examples include semiconductor lithography systems designed to create...

Microcapsules for the storage and delivery of substances are tiny versions of the type of capsule used for fish oil or other liquid supplements, such as vitamin D. A new method for synthesizing microcapsules, reported in...

Photonic crystals are the nanostructures that can manipulate photons by means of an energy gap, similar to how the semiconductors in computer chips manipulate electronic current. It was always thought that photonic cryst...

Nanophotonics uses light polarization as an information carrier in optical communications, sensing, and imaging. Likewise, the state of polarization of light plays a key role in the photonic transfer of quantum informati...

When a particle is transformed into its antiparticle and its spatial coordinates inverted, the laws of physics are required to stay the same--or so we thought. This symmetry--known as CP symmetry (charge conjugation and ...