Individual Irrationality, Network Structure, And Collective Intelligence
Limited by irrationality, individuals usually are not able to solve complicated problems. People thus turn to crowd wisdom for help. It is believed as collective…
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The Hand Of Mountain Gorillas Is As Well Adapted To Vertical Climbing Behaviors As The Hand Of Chimpanzees
Grasping is a hallmark adaptation among primate hands. All primates need to climb in search of fruits in the upper forest canopy. Prehensile grasping is…
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Correlated Asteroid Pairs After Encounters With An Unseen Planetary Body Beyond Neptune
When Sedna was discovered in 2003 it was regarded by many as an outlier, nothing else like it was known in the Solar System. Fifteen…
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Rapid Detection Of Pesticide Residues In Food
Due to their increasing use in agriculture, the presence of pesticides residues in food and water currently represents one of the major issues for the…
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Quantum Tunneling Between Distant Molecules Aids Energy Harvesting In Organic Solar Cells
Organic materials, such as semiconducting molecules and polymers, can be exploited in functional electronic devices, such as organic solar cells, which offer a promising alternative…
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Scientists Question Old Paradigms On Tannin Interactions With Organic Nitrogen Compounds And Enzymes
Among plant secondary metabolites, tannins represent one of the main groups. Historically, they were used to treat animal skin in order to produce leather, because…
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Developing Highly Stretchable E-textiles For The Full Range Of Human Motions
In recent years, textile-based electronics (e-textiles), as new-fashioned wearable devices, have drawn surging attentions in applications such as artificial skins, motion detection, and health monitoring…
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Understanding The Expression Patterns Of Genes Through Promoter Feature
Promoters are key regulators of gene expression, and their sequences determine the specific expression levels of the associated genes. The level, location, and manner of…
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The Driving Forces Of Grain Growth And Densification During Sintering Evolution
Manufactured ceramics are one of the first technological achievements of humankind, and after thousands of years, although their spectrum of applications extends far beyond pottery…
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Enzyme-free Ligation Of Oligonucleotides In A DNA Nanostructure
Modern methods in medicine and synthetic biology require very long DNA strands, in particular with the advent of the increasingly popular CRISPR/Cas9 system in recent…
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How Quantised Inertia Gets Rid Of Dark Matter
It is well-known that galaxies rotate so fast that centrifugal forces should have long ago beaten the gravitational self-attraction of all the visible mass we…
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