The University of Basel is Switzerland's oldest university, a research institution active in fields from physics and neuroscience to genomics and medicine.
University of Basel researchers found that fine particles from a small jet engine gained oxidative potential after simulated atmospheric aging. Particles from a marine diesel engine tested alongside it stayed largely stable.
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Physicists in Basel and Paderborn used an optical cavity to make quantum-dot cascade photons 90% indistinguishable, up from 60%. The fix targets the timing correlations that have limited these on-demand sources, and brightness and entanglement performance have yet to be reported.
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A Basel, FMI and Allen Institute team grouped cortical sites by where their axons end, and found primary and secondary motor cortex both reaching the brainstem and spinal cord directly. The 16-module layout is now in the open BrainGlobe atlas.
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UC Irvine reports no retinal cell death in Greenland shark eyes, one of them about 200 years old, with DNA repair offered as a hypothesis and fixed tissue as the only material.
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A University of Basel group has published Bonsai in Nature Biotechnology, replacing the two-dimensional map with a branching tree. The fidelity gains are asserted qualitatively, not quantified.
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Basel researchers mapped 162 mouse brains to find wake-activated cells in the median raphe and preoptic area. Switching them off cut sleep by nearly 70 per cent, with no rebound.
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A University of Basel framework in Physical Review Letters says part of the light leaking out of a driven cavity is work, not heat. Efficiency figures depend on where that line sits.
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A PNAS paper from Eric Dufresne's lab reports an experimental metric for comparing how chemicals act on three unrelated condensate types. The claimed payoff is prediction instead of enumeration.
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