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Archaeology Mar 28, 2024

DNA study IDs descendants of George Washington from unmarked remains

New DNA sequencing technologies have identified the historical remains of George Washington's grandnephews, Samuel Walter Washington and George Steptoe Washington Jr., and their mother, Lucy Payne Washington, from unmarked, ...

Analytical Chemistry Apr 8, 2024

On-surface synthesis of carbyne: An sp-hybridized linear carbon allotrope

In a study led by Prof. Wei Xu (Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University) and published in the journal National Science Review, a research team achieved the ...

Cell & Microbiology Apr 2, 2024

Novel method uses nanomechanics and machine learning for rapid bacterial viability detection

Prof. Guo Shifeng's team at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel method that fills the gap between physical measurement and artificial intelligence in ...

Condensed Matter Apr 9, 2024

Researchers develop mechanism of electrical 180° switching of Néel vector in spin-splitting antiferromagnet

A research team led by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Tsinghua University has theoretically proposed a new mechanism of electrical 180° switching of Néel vector and experimentally realized ...

Molecular & Computational biology Apr 17, 2024

A powerful technique for tracking a protein's fleeting shape changes

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a powerful, new technique to generate "movies" of changing protein structures and speeds of up to 50 frames per second.