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Biology
Unlocking auxin: a tiny hormone with big impacts on crops
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain How can small molecules help shape the future of global food security? Researchers at the University of Tasmania have discovered that auxin, the master plant hormone, and starch production, the powerhouse of the world’s most important crops, provided new insights into the important role of auxin in The research team’s invited commentary, published in Nature Communications,…
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Nanotechnology
Unlocking efficiency in next-generation chips: Researchers confirm thermal insights in small circuits
Microstructure of as-deposited and annealed copper films. (a–c) STEM images of as-deposited ~27 nm PVD, ~44 nm PVD-EP, and ~118 PVD films, respectively. The morphology of these films after annealing at 500 °C is shown in (d–f). The micrographs show representative areas of the as-deposited and annealed films. The grain size distributions of both the as-deposited and annealed films are…
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Physics
Niobium-tin magnets could be the key to unlocking the potential of heavy-ion accelerators
Cross-sectional view of the 28 GHz ECRIS superconducting magnet. Credit: Berkeley Lab Researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics (ATAP) department are collaborating with colleagues at Michigan State University’s Rare Isotope Beam Facility (FRIB), the world’s most powerful heavy ion accelerator, to We have developed a new superconducting magnet based on Tin (Nb3Sn) technology. The first-of-its-kind magnet has…
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