#Using mass spectrometry to isolate guanine-rich DNA ions

“#Using mass spectrometry to isolate guanine-rich DNA ions” Experimental setup for generating circularly polarized laser pulses. Also shown is the typical mass spectrum after isolation of D-[(dTGGGGT)4•(NH4 )3]5– ions and irradiation with left circularly polarized (LCP) light at 260 nm. See supplementary materials for setup details. Credit: Science (2020). DOI: 10.1126/science.abb1822 A team of researchers…

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#A new material for light-matter interactions

“#A new material for light-matter interactions” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne scientists have coupled a new material with light at the level of a single photon. The achievement opens up prospects for better controlling and understanding the properties of quantum-correlated systems, where theoretical calculations are difficult. There is a large group…

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#Software package helps make sense of complex tree data

“#Software package helps make sense of complex tree data” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most plant features arise from complex interactions of genes, proteins and metabolites. The identification and analysis of these genetic traits is very challenging, especially when the sequenced genomes are fragmented. In his thesis, Bastian Schiffthaler has improved the genome information from European…

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#Developing new techniques to improve atomic force microscopy

“#Developing new techniques to improve atomic force microscopy” Chemical signal produced by a 4 nm thick polymer film collected using previous deflection AFM-IR detection, top, compared to the new null-deflection approach. Credit: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology have developed a new method to…

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#To boldly go: NASA launches Lunar Loo challenge

“#To boldly go: NASA launches Lunar Loo challenge” NASA’s astronaut class of 2020 might be among those returning to the Moon under the Artemis program Everyone poops. Including astronauts, who have since the early space era found ways to do their business in near-zero gravity—from the Apollo missions when waste management was, in NASA’s words,…

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#Virgin Galactic marks second glide flight over New Mexico

“#Virgin Galactic marks second glide flight over New Mexico” This photo provided by Virgin Galactic shows SpaceShipTwo Unity being released from the carrier mothership, VMS Eve for second successful glide flight in New Mexico on Thursday, June 25, 2020. Virgin Galactic is celebrating the second successful glide flight of its spaceship over Spaceport America in…

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#Maryland offshore wind farm could become stop-over region for migrating striped bass and Atlantic sturgeon

“#Maryland offshore wind farm could become stop-over region for migrating striped bass and Atlantic sturgeon” Researcher Ellie Rothermel configures an acoustic receiver off coast of Ocean City, Maryland, to monitor to the movement of Atlantic sturgeon and striped bass off the Delmarva coastline. Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Mike O’Brien For the endangered…

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