Optics & Photonics
Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted images with limited fields of view.
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Nanophysics
Leading researchers publish new definition of quantum nanoscience
The scale of investment in quantum computation, simulation and sensing is growing at a tantalizing pace. Harnessing the nanoscale to engineer useful quantum effects is a transformative capability of huge relevance to industries ...
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New tool predicts where coronavirus binds to human proteins
A computational tool allows researchers to precisely predict locations on the surfaces of human and COVID-19 viral proteins that bind with each other, a breakthrough that will greatly ...
A computational tool allows researchers to precisely predict locations on the surfaces of human and COVID-19 viral proteins that bind with each other, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Waterfall sounds used as a telltale sign of water loss
Waterfalls have a specific threshold of water flow that must be maintained to preserve their characteristic sound and appearance, according to research that used audio recordings and images to monitor waterfalls in Europe. ...
Earth Sciences
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Breaking the symmetry of sound waves allows the sound to be directed to a certain place
Research undertaken by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has concluded that sound can be directed to a certain place if the sound waves' symmetry is broken. In order to carry out this work, recently published in ...
General Physics
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Molding, patterning and driving liquids with light
Jiming Bao, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, has developed a new fluid that can be cut open by light and demonstrated macroscopic depression of ferrofluid, the kind of fluid ...
Condensed Matter
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Eight worst wildfire weather years on record happened in the last decade: study
The world's eight most extreme wildfire weather years have occurred in the last decade, according to a new study that suggests extreme fire weather is being driven by a decrease in atmospheric humidity coupled with rising ...
Earth Sciences
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Cancer cells may promote metastases and resistance to therapy, depending on their state
A type of cell transformation known as EMT enables cancer cells to break away from the tumor and form metastases elsewhere. However, this process does not always take place in full. Researchers at the University of Basel ...
Oncology & Cancer
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Smart wound dressing provides suture-free closure of surgical incisions
"Sutures? That's practically medieval!"
Surgery
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Research pushes auto industry closer to clean cars powered by direct ethanol fuel cells
Alternative-energy research at Oregon State University is charting a path toward the mass adoption of clean cars powered by direct-ethanol fuel cells.
Energy & Green Tech
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Research shows why immune checkpoint blockade impedes but does not stop glioblastoma progression
Like locking the door but opening windows, an immune checkpoint therapy temporarily slows glioblastoma (GBM) progression but fails to establish an effective anti-tumor microenvironment and appears to increase molecular interactions ...
Immunology
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Medical Xpress
A new phenotype of LRP6 mutation
Conventional IVF noninferior to PGT-A for live-birth rate
Decline in infectious conjunctivitis during COVID-19 pandemic
Intermetatarsal bursitis identified in clinically suspect arthralgia
Study sheds light on how fatty liver disease turns into liver cancer
Experts warn Omicron could be in US undetected
Researchers discover why pancreatic cancer cells are so aggressive
Compact CRISPR system enables portable COVID-19 testing
Research team identifies new rare disease affecting hematopoiesis and immunity
Scientists discover potential cause of Alzheimer's disease
How immune cells in the tumor microenvironment make things worse
Understanding motor neuron disease
What experts know about the Omicron 'variant of concern'
Blood bubbles reveal oxygen levels
Tech Xplore
New discovery opens the way for brain-like computers
Holograms on the horizon? Company seeks to make futuristic technology mainstream
A new model that automatically generates movie trailers
Sizing up the challenges in extracting lithium from geothermal brine
Development of an artificial vision device capable of mimicking human optical illusions
Community systems offer alternative paths for solar growth
A deep learning method to automatically enhance dog animations
New discovery opens the way for brain-like computers
Research has long strived to develop computers to work as energy efficiently as our brains. A study, led by researchers at the University of Gothenburg, has succeeded for the first time in combining a memory function with ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
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A new model that automatically generates movie trailers
Trailers, short video clips that introduce new movies, are often crucial elements in the promotional strategies employed by film production companies. To be most effective, trailers should briefly summarize a movie's plot, ...
Study inspects subdwarf B stars in the open cluster NGC 6791
Using NASA's Kepler spacecraft and the MMT telescope in Arizona, an international team of astronomers has investigated a population of subdwarf B stars in an open cluster known as NGC 6791. Results of the study, published ...
Climate change is making one of the world's strongest currents flow faster
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the only ocean current that circumnavigates the planet, is speeding up. For the first time, scientists are able to tell that this is happening by taking advantage of a decades-long ...
Earth Sciences
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Study suggests Sun is likely an unaccounted source of the Earth's water
Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth's water, finding the Sun to be a surprising likely source.
Astronomy
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Möbius strip microlasers for non-Euclidean photonics applications
Photonics is a branch of technology development that specializes in the creation of devices that can generate, detect or manipulate light. Recently, researchers at Université Paris-Saclay coined a new term for a new photonics ...
A fossil of a snake-like lizard generates controversy beyond its identity
More than 120 million years ago in what is now modern Brazil, an ancient waterway was filled with all manner of strange creatures. These included dinosaurs, pterosaurs, sharks, bony fishes, a dizzying array of insects, strange ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Chemists design 'molecular sea of flags' as basis for novel catalysts
Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed a molecular structure that can cover graphite surfaces with a sea of tiny flagged "flagpoles." The properties of this coating are highly variable. It may provide a basis ...
Nanomaterials
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High-flying morpho butterflies evolved into efficient gliders
Some morpho butterflies live and fly high in the canopy of the Amazonian rainforest, and have evolved into highly-efficient gliding flyers. These results revealed by Wageningen University & Research and published in Science ...
Plants & Animals
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Researchers identify a crucial gene that triggers congenital muscular dystrophy
For the targeted treatment of a disease, information is needed about the course of the disease at molecular and cellular level. This is also true for the group of muscle diseases that include congenital muscular dystrophies ...
Genetics
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Deadly bacteria found in large group of stranded porpoises
Last summer, some 190 dead porpoises washed ashore on the Dutch Wadden Sea Islands within just ten days. A remarkably high number, considering the annual average of about 600 stranded porpoises on the entire Dutch coast. ...
Novel carbon-coated bimetallic catalyst for in-situ aqueous phase hydrodeoxygenation
The excessive consumption of fossil fuels causes serious energy and environment issues. As an ideal alternative to fossil fuels, renewable biomass can be converted to fuels and chemicals. Thereinto, lipids, mainly containing ...
Sparking new insights into dye chemistry
Fluorophores, a chemical compound that can emit light, can be used as fluorescent labels for bioimaging, and fluorescent probes to detect a wide range of chemical species and physical parameters.
Intense correlationship proved between irradiation damage and performances of tritium breeding materials
Severe irradiation environment would bring damage to the microstructure of the materials and affect the stable operation and tritium recovery of fusion reactor. Therefore, the efficient tritium production from tritium breeding ...
A long road ahead to recovery from Huntington Beach oil spill
An oil sheen spotted off Huntington Beach last weekend served as a potent reminder of how long it will take Southern California to untangle the legal, regulatory and environmental fallout of an October pipeline spill that ...
Electrochemiluminescence emission of methamphetamine for accurate detection
Researchers at Shinshu University's Department of Chemistry attempted to establish technology that enables simple, highly sensitive, and selective screening and analysis of stimulants, namely components of regulated toxicants. ...
Bottlenose dolphins contain mysteries. She's trying to get answers
Rain flecked the fiberglass boat and the still green waters as professor Shannon Gowans pushed off from Dock 6. Her students noted in pencil the particulars of time and weather: Not ideal, perhaps, for a Saturday on the bay, ...
Researchers develop rapid, highly accurate test to detect viruses like SARS-COV-2
University of Central Florida researchers have developed a device that detects viruses like SARS-COV-2 in the body as fast as and more accurately than current, commonly used rapid detection tests.
Killer asteroids abound. NASA is ready to do something about it
The Russia incident was a warning.
Innovative silicon nanochip can reprogram biological tissue in living body
A silicon device that can change skin tissue into blood vessels and nerve cells has advanced from prototype to standardized fabrication, meaning it can now be made in a consistent, reproducible way. As reported in Nature ...
How much toxin from algae blooms makes people sick? A Florida university aims to find out
Scientists know that red tide and other harmful algae blooms can kill marine life and make pets and people sick. Certain types of algae produce toxins that can cause respiratory problems, liver failure and nervous system ...
Light pollution is one more thing to consider when hanging those colorful holiday strands
Hanging holiday lights?
Tracking down microplastics in Antarctica
Microplastics are everywhere, even in the most remote places. Where do these tiny pieces of plastic come from? Researchers from the University of Basel and the Alfred-Wegener Institute have shown that it takes precise analysis ...
Crowdsourcing data to monitor progress on sustainable development goals
Monitoring progress on our way to successfully achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is key to their achievement, but there are significant data gaps that make this crucial exercise difficult. A new IIASA-led ...
Medline and Sterigenics would have to report ethylene oxide emissions under new EPA proposal
After snubbing a federal right-to-know law for years, two Chicago-area companies could soon be forced to join competitors that make it relatively easy for Americans to determine how much cancer-causing ethylene oxide drifts ...
Solar Orbiter flies by Earth before beginning final journey to Sun
The Solar Orbiter space probe had a brief encounter with its home planet on Saturday morning when it circled the Earth for the first and last time while executing a gravity assist to slow itself down before setting off for ...
Biopesticides can be used to degrade aflatoxin in crops
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 25% of global food crops are contaminated with different types of fungal toxins, such as aflatoxins, highly toxic and carcinogenic substances produced by certain ...
'Scottie Ash Seed' protects trees in public parks, inoculating them against the much-feared emerald ash borer
It's an unlikely place for a nature hike: Tucked away on the Northwest Side of Chicago, the Montclare neighborhood is marked by quiet streets, neat bungalows and postage-stamp lawns.
Burnout by design? Warehouse and shipping workers pay the hidden cost of the holiday season
What's the meaning of Christmas? For many, it's about feasting, family, and napping while watching the cricket.
30 South African white rhino relocated to Rwanda in a Boeing 747
Thirty endangered white rhinos arrived in Rwanda on Monday after a long journey from South Africa in a Boeing 747, conservationists said, hailing it as the largest single transfer of the species ever undertaken.
