Macro photography never ceases to inspire the imagination, as it reminds us of how much of the natural world plays out under our noses but goes unnoticed. Microphotography or 'extreme macro' takes ...

Xylem vessel pits are tiny openings on the cell wall of water-conducting cells—with pit geometry influencing crop yield through its effect on plant hydraulics and nitrogen transport.

Wiring up the brain's trillions of circuit connections is an enormous job performed by a huge crew of molecules. Among the less understood members are circular RNAs, transcripts from DNA that assume a ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Can there be a championship “hangover” if the players don’t even drink alcohol? This is a version of the burning question facing the Oklahoma City Thunder at the outset of ...

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This Synapse module logs all room messages (m.room.message events) to a JSON Lines file, capturing details such as event ID, room ID, sender, timestamp, and message content. It is designed to be ...

Abstract: Distant speech processing is a critical downstream application in speech and audio signal processing. Traditionally, researchers have addressed this challenge by breaking it down into ...

Abstract: Soft robots are increasingly used in medical devices and industrial applications due to their flexibility and safer human-robot interaction. However, traditional soft robots often have fixed ...

In the popular imagination, Australia is often viewed as a sophisticated 21st-century economy, comparable to any number of advanced developed economies. Yet when one examines the balance of the nation ...