EPFL engineers have found a way to control the interactions between excitons—quasiparticles that may one day transport data and replace the electrons in electronic devices. The engineers' method involves applying an electric ...
Condensed Matter
May 9, 2023
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Washing clothes releases microfibers, which can be synthetic (plastic) and non-synthetic, but little is understood about the environmental impact. To better understand this, researchers teamed up with the Flipflopi project, ...
Environment
May 2, 2023
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Sorghum bran, often a low-cost byproduct of sorghum milling, can enhance gluten-free bread's nutritional value without compromising its flavor, according to a study published in the Journal of Food Science.
Agriculture
Apr 25, 2023
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Collagen is the basic protein that makes up the intercellular matrix, or in other words, the environment for the connective tissue cells of our body, such as tendons, bone, and cartilage. It looks like long threads, woven ...
Biochemistry
Apr 20, 2023
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Quantum teleportation is a technique allowing the transfer of quantum information between two distant quantum objects, a sender and a receiver, using a phenomenon called quantum entanglement as a resource.
Optics & Photonics
Apr 19, 2023
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Senescent cells, often referred to as "zombie" cells, have long been associated with aging and disease. However, a new study from the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) at TU Dresden adds to a growing body of ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2023
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Effective, accurate and quick ways to screen and sort microbes are in short supply. Most methods available now rely on additional labeling steps to sort bacteria, which are typically time-consuming and cannot work well for ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 14, 2023
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They've been called "dream" plastics: polyhydroxyalkanoates, or PHAs. Already the basis of a fledgling industry, they're a class of polymers naturally created by living microorganisms, or synthetically produced from biorenewable ...
Polymers
Apr 12, 2023
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Most antimicrobial wipes, which are predominantly made of synthetic fibers like polyester and polypropylene, are discarded after a single use and end up in landfills where they can stay for hundreds of years and become a ...
Materials Science
Apr 11, 2023
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The LAMOST DR10 (v1.0 version) dataset was officially released to domestic astronomers and international partners on March 31, 2023. This dataset contains more than 22.29 million spectra, which is 2.9 times the sum of the ...
Astronomy
Apr 10, 2023
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