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Dialog / Electromagnetic-circuit co-design approach leads to dynamically programmable holographic terahertz metasurfaces

With the help of integrated CMOS technology and electromagnetic design, Princeton researchers have demonstrated a key device that could potentially enable high-speed wireless links at terahertz frequencies.

Dec 17, 2020 in Technology
Dialog / We scanned the DNA of 8,000 people to see how facial features are controlled by genes

You might think it's rather obvious that your facial appearance is determined by your genes. Just look in the family photo album and observe the same nose, eyes or chin on your grandparents, cousins and uncles and aunts. ...

Dec 8, 2020 in Medicine & Health
Dialog / This is how microorganisms can produce renewable energy for us

We can generate electricity from microorganisms as an alternative to the usual power from water, wind, solar or steam.

Dec 2, 2020 in Technology
Dialog / Periodic table: Scientists propose new way of ordering the elements

The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard to overstate its importance as an organising principle ...

Nov 27, 2020 in Chemistry
Dialog / Ancient Earth had a thick, toxic atmosphere like Venus—until it cooled off and became liveable

Earth is the only planet we know contains life. Is our planet special? Scientists over the years have mulled over what factors are essential for, or beneficial to, life. The answers will help us identify other potentially ...

Nov 26, 2020 in Astronomy & Space
Dialog / We developed a simple process to recycle urine. Here's how it's done

Every year on November 19, the United Nations celebrates one of public health's greatest inventions – the toilet. Those who are fortunate enough to have access to one spend more than a year of their lives on it, yet millions ...

Nov 20, 2020 in Chemistry
Dialog / A new way to tackle the neutron lifetime enigma: A superfluid helium-4 scintillation detector

A free neutron outside a nucleus is not stable. It undergoes beta decay at a probability. Over time, the number of free neutrons decreases exponentially at a time constant, which is called the neutron lifetime.

Nov 17, 2020 in Physics
Dialog / For wave-particle duality and entanglement, progress is finally possible if we avoid the customary pitfalls

Photon duality remains a paradox because the photon is regarded as a simple, unitary object in space. Equally bad, massless radiation is interpreted via concepts drawn from mass-based physics.

Nov 16, 2020 in Physics
Dialog / This super rare squid is a deep-sea mystery. We recently spotted not 1, but 5, in the Great Australian Bight

The mysterious bigfin squid has been spotted in Australia's waters for the first time. My colleagues and I from the CSIRO and Museums Victoria detail the encounters in our new research, published today in Public Library of ...

Nov 12, 2020 in Biology
Dialog / Not singing in the rain: How climate change and increasing precipitation put a damper on songbird populations

North American grassland bird populations have decreased over 50% in the past 50 years, more than any other group of birds on the continent. What is driving these steep declines?

Nov 10, 2020 in Biology
Dialog / Exoplanets are still out there—a new model tells astronomers where to look for more using 4 simple variables

Only 12 light years from Earth, Tau Ceti is the closest single star similar to the Sun and an all-time favorite in sci-fi stories. Habitable worlds orbiting Tau Ceti were destinations of fictional starships like "The Expanse"'s ...

Nov 9, 2020 in Astronomy & Space
Dialog / A way to turn urine into solid fertilizer that could make farming more sustainable

It's likely that most of the food you'll eat today was not farmed sustainably.

Nov 9, 2020 in Chemistry