Metagenomics with guts

Constraining SUSY GUTs and Inflation with Cosmology

In the framework of Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories (SUSY GUTs), the universe undergoes a cascade of symmetry breakings, during which topological defects can be formed. We address the question of the probability of cosmic string formation after a phase of hybrid inflation within a large number of models of SUSY GUTs in agreement with particle and cosmological data. We show that cosmic str...

Metagenomics

EditoriAL EditoriAL Estimates suggest that less than 1% of the microorganisms present in most habitats on Earth are culturable, 1 which means that our current view of the structural and functional diversity of the microbial world is severely limited and its vast emporium of potential medicines and useful industrial products lies virtually untapped. Furthermore, our historical reliance on cultur...

Evidence For SUSY From GUTS? Evidence For GUTS From SUSY!

We review the theoretical and experimental status of minimal grand unified theories (GUTS), contrasting the failure of minimal non-supersymmetric SU(5) with the success of the minimal supersymmetric SU(5) and minimal supersymmetric Flipped SU(5)× U(1) models. We show that a reasonable value for the universal soft supersymmetry-breaking gaugino mass, 45GeV < m1/2 < 1TeV, and a 1−σ range of the o...

EcoBot-III - A Robot with Guts

This paper describes the work carried out to develop EcoBotIII, which is a robot with an artificial digestion system. The robot is powered by Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) and it is designed to collect food and water from the environment, digest the collected food and at the end of the digestion cycle, egest the waste. EcoBot-III operated successfully for 7 days when fed with anaerobic or pasteur...

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