Gamma-ray pulses could be created using laser-plasma accelerators
Stack of lasers could overcome energy-spread and power challenges
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Hybrid gamma camera enhances intraoperative imaging
A hybrid gamma-optical imaging camera could help improve treatment outcomes for patients undergoing cancer surgery
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Marine sprawl could harm ecosystems
Study of Sydney Harbour reveals differences in natural and artificial habitats
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‘Nanowood’ makes a super thermal insulator
New material is also lightweight and strong, and could help make buildings more energy efficient
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How did complex carbon-based nanostructures form in space?
New experiments could shed more light on how the chemical precursors of life might have been created in the Universe, and in particular in our galaxy
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Juno looks deep below Jupiter’s surface
Giant planet’s gravitational field reveals a hidden world
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Heart attacks can rise during extremes of heat
Temperature fluctuations linked to increase in myocardial infarctions
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Pre-natal alcohol exposure alters functional connectivity
MRI reveals increased functional connectivity between sensorimotor brain regions and other brain regions in children with pre-natal alcohol exposure
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Sea-level rise threatens US Pacific coast wetlands
Marshes in Washington, Oregon and California may be completely lost as oceans rise
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‘Magic-angle graphene’ behaves like a high-temperature superconductor
New experimental platform could be used to investigate strongly correlated physics – in particular in unconventional superconductivity and quantum spin liquids
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