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Violin-makers tune in to tradition of Stradivarius in Italy's Cremona
Working in the shadow of the great masters, the violin-makers of Italy’s Cremona are valiantly fighting…
NASA's next Mars rover honors medical teams fighting virus
NASA’s next Mars rover is honoring all the medical workers on the front lines of the…
Plants are marvelous chemists, as the gardenia's DNA shows
Plants are some of nature’s most extraordinary chemists. Unlike animals, they can’t run from predators or…
AI goes underground: root crop growth predicted with drone imagery
Root crops like cassava, carrots and potatoes are notoriously good at hiding disease or deficiencies which…
New techniques improve quantum communication, entangle phonons
Quantum communication—where information is sent through particles, typically entangled photons—has the potential to become the ultimate…
Using light turbulence to generate frequency combs from small ring lasers
We’ve all experienced turbulent air and water, but did you know light can be turbulent too? …
A proven method for stabilizing efforts to bring fusion power to Earth
All efforts to replicate in tokamak fusion facilities the fusion energy that powers the sun and…
The balancing act between plant growth and defense
Researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan have pinpointed the mechanism that regulates the balance between plant…
Quantum-inspired approach dramatically lowers light power needed for optical coherence tomography
Researchers have shown that a detection technology borrowed from quantum optics can be used to perform…