Partitioning of the Cretaceous Pan-Yangtze Basin in the central South China Block by exhumation of the Xuefeng Mountains during a transition from extensional to compressional tectonics?...
Pushing the Envelope of the Intrinsic Limitation of Organic Solar Cells
Pushing the Envelope of the Intrinsic Limitation of Organic Solar Cells, by Nadia Camaioni and Riccardo Po, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, vi...
Diamonds Reveal Oceans of Water Underground - Prof. Graham Pearson studies water trapped inside diamonds, which are like indestructible capsules bringing messages from the deep Earth....
Environmental Enrichment Rescues Precocious Critical Period
Critical periods are developmental time windows when neural circuits in the brain are shaped by experience. Jianhua Cang and colleagues show that a precocious critical period disrupts the matching of ...
"The Secret Lives (and Deaths) of Stars" - Two-Minute Thesis
Hold onto your stellar companions! Ph.D candidate Or Graur (University of Tel Aviv/American Museum of Natural History) tells us w...
Implementing quantum electrodynamics with ultracold atomic systems
Implementing quantum electrodynamics with ultracold atomic systems. We discuss the experimental engineering of model systems for the description of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in one spatial dimensi...
CRISPR-Cas9 has been repurposed to precisely edit the genome. In this video and the Cell paper published in the December 15 issue of Cell, Alan Davidson's group at the University of Toronto and Erik S...
Node Assembly & Maintenance - How do nodes of Ranvier assemble? Jim Salzer and colleagues find that node assembly is initiated by redistribution of mobile, surface pools of axonal adhesion molecul...