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What happens when leaves go from sink to source?
It is well known that plants, like animals, must constantly regulate and transport nutrients to survive. For example, the leaves of many plant species begin life as net nutrient sinks: that is, they rely on carbohydrates and other nutrients transported from elsewhere in the organism.
Knife-coated organic semiconductor blends with mobilities on par with single crystals
The paramount goal of organic electronics is to achieve high mobility in organic transistors within solution-based coating methods that can be scaled up to meet industrial production conditions.
Nailed it: Physics Demo Contest at the 2016 AAPT spring conference
Even the cold Ithaca spring weather wasn’t enough to damp the excitement of the almost 50 physics teachers that attended the 2016 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) spring conference, co-hosted by XraiseCornell, on Saturday April 2nd.
X-Ray Raman spectroscopy at CHESS
X-ray Raman spectroscopy (XRS) is an inelastic scattering method that allows detection of low energy (<3keV) spectroscopic signatures using high-energy x-rays, typically by exciting core electrons of low-Z elements such as carbon and oxygen.
Matthias Liepe to head up the SRF group
Dr. Matthias Liepe, Associate Professor of Physics, has accepted leadership of the Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) group. This change was made effective on March 29th, 2016.
Nanocrystal self-assembly sheds its secrets
A new approach gives a real-time look at how the complex structures form.
Engineering in Elementary
The Next Generation Science Standards have raised the level of interest in and importance of integrating engineering into elementary science curriculum, making engineering-based learning activities more commonplace than ever before in the primary grades.
Surprising mechanism of an enzyme in a membrane
Many cellular processes, particularly intercellular signaling, require enzyme-catalyzed reactions to occur inside a cell membrane.