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Megawatt light array generates 3,070 phase-coherent optical vortices

In a lab at Osaka University, physicist Yoshiki Nakata and his colleagues fired a pulsed laser through a stack of three ...
Nature

High density synthetic oligonucleotide arrays

Photolithography allows the construction of arrays with extremely high information content. Because the arrays are constructed on a rigid material (glass), they can be inverted and mounted in a ...
eLife

REM sleep prefrontal high-frequency oscillation chains mediate distinct cortical ...

REM (rapid eye movement) and non-REM (NREM) sleep stages contribute to systems memory consolidation in hippocampal-cortical circuits. However, the physiological mechanisms underlying REM memory ...
Astronomy on MSN

Could this telescope find life on alien worlds?

The ExoLife Finder (ELF) looks like no telescope ever built. A spectacular crown of 15 five-meter mirrors perches atop a ...