Biologists have discovered a new species — and redescribed another one — of the tree frog genus Litoria living on the Australian continent.
The whirring tree frog (Litoria revelata). Image credit: Stephen Mahony.
Litoria is a large genus…
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Highly uniform nanocrystals synthesized by liquid crystalline antisolvent
A research team led by Professors Young-Ki Kim and Yong-Young Noh at POSTECH has developed a groundbreaking method for synthesizing perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs), a next-generation semiconductor material, in a more uniform and efficient manner….
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Viking skulls reveal severe morbidity
Sweden’s Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, osteoarthritis, and much more. This is shown in a study from the University of Gothenburg in which Viking skulls were…
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Microcomb chips help pave the way for thousand times more accurate GPS systems
Optical atomic clocks can increase the precision of time and geographic position a thousandfold in our mobile phones, computers, and GPS systems. However, they are currently too large and complex to be widely used in society. Now, a research team…
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Breakthrough in high-performance oxide-ion conductors using rubidium
Rubidium could be the next key player in oxide-ion conductors. Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have discovered a rare rubidium (Rb)-containing oxide-ion conductor, Rb₅BiMo₄O₁₆, with exceptionally high conductivity. Identified…
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Iberian nailed head ritual was more complex than expected
The nailed heads ritual did not correspond to the same symbolic expression among the Iberian communities of the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, but rather a practice that differed in each settlement. In some, external individuals were used as…
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Novel method to synthesize valuable fluorinated drug compounds
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have pioneered a new catalytic transformation that converts epoxides into fluorinated oxetanes, a coveted but difficult-to-make class of drug molecules that escaped synthetic preparation…
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Perovskite solar cells: Thermal stresses are the key to long-term stability
Perovskite solar cells are highly efficient and low cost in production. However, they still lack stability over the decades under real weather conditions. An international research collaboration led by Prof. Antonio Abate has now published a…
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Robot Videos: Figure Helix, Swimming Robots, MIT Media Lab
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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Climate Change Can Increase Valley Fever Rates
Two new studies have shown how climate change can increase disease. Both of these reports were focused on recent increases in cases of coccidioidomycosis, also known as valley fever. The first study was
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