Hardware
A technique to automatically generate hardware components for robotic systems
As robots become increasingly sophisticated and advanced, they will typically require a growing amount of hardware components, including robotic limbs, motors, sensors and actuators. In addition, robots have integrated computers ...
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Materials Science
Novel peroxide-based material emits fluorescence in response to stress
Polymers make up everything from the clothes we wear to the plasticware we use for eating. In recent years, polymers that can release small molecules (like drugs) have been of major interest to pharmaceutical researchers. ...
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Study rewrites dogma of adenovirus infection and double-stranded RNA
Challenging the dogma of what scientists thought they understood about DNA viruses, a team of researchers led by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has shown that adenovirus ...
Challenging the dogma of what scientists thought they understood about DNA viruses, a team of researchers led by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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How pearls achieve nanoscale precision
In research that could inform future high-performance nanomaterials, a University of Michigan-led team has uncovered for the first time how mollusks build ultradurable structures with a level of symmetry that outstrips everything ...
Nanomaterials
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Quantum-encrypted information transmitted over fiber more than 600 kilometers long
By implementing a new signal stabilization technique, researchers were able to achieve secure quantum communication over a record 605 kilometers of fiber using the twin-field quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol. The new ...
Optics & Photonics
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Astronomers provide 'field guide' to exoplanets known as hot Jupiters
Hot Jupiters—giant gas planets that race around their host stars in extremely tight orbits—have become a little bit less mysterious thanks to a new study combining theoretical modeling with observations by the Hubble ...
Astronomy
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Shrinking quantum key distribution technology to a semiconductor chip
Toshiba Europe Ltd today announced it has developed the world's first chip-based quantum key distribution (QKD) system. This advance will enable the mass manufacture of quantum security technology, bringing its application ...
Quantum Physics
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New technique gets the drop on enzyme reactions
As part of an international collaboration, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the Diamond Light Source synchrotron facility, and Oxford and Bristol Universities in England have developed ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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How asteroid, comet strikes may have delayed evolution of the atmosphere
Between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago, a time known as the Archean eon, Earth's weather could often be described as cloudy with a chance of asteroid.
Earth Sciences
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Early dinosaurs may have lived in social herds as early as 193 million years ago
To borrow a line from the movie "Jurassic Park:" Dinosaurs do move in herds. And a new study shows that the prehistoric creatures lived in herds much earlier than previously thought.
Evolution
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Treatment strategy may lead to HIV cure
Armed with a novel strategy they developed for bolstering the body's immune response, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have successfully suppressed HIV infections in mice—offering a path to a functional ...
HIV & AIDS
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Medical Xpress
Shape of virus particles may determine respiratory syncytial virus infection outcomes
Treatment strategy may lead to HIV cure
Lower airways are distinct in cystic fibrosis even at younger ages
AI tool pairs protein pathways with clinical side effects, patient comorbidities to suggest targeted COVID treatments
Broad-spectrum malaria vaccine developed
Vaccines offer strong protection against death from Delta, study says
Study identifies expanded role for metabolic enzyme in kidney cancer
Study illustrates the need to treat smoking and mental health problems together
New study provides robust evidence that COVID-19 is a seasonal infection
Body's ability to prevent cell damage hampered by excess carbs
Anxiety impacts ability to perceive changes in breathing
New pathways to target breast cancer
Tech Xplore
Energy storage ecosystem offers lowest-cost path to 100% renewable power
Can Facebook's smart glasses be smart about security and privacy?
Latest trend keeps clothes out of landfill
A wireless system based on large-area electronics operating at gigahertz frequencies
Increasing hydrogen energy requires all technologies to be pushed forward
How machine learning can be fair and accurate
Plugging into ocean waves with a flexible, seaweed-like generator
New photonic chip for isolating light may be key to miniaturizing quantum devices
Light offers an irreplaceable way to interact with our universe. It can travel across galactic distances and collide with our atmosphere, creating a shower of particles that tell a story of past astronomical events. Here ...
Optics & Photonics
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Manure makes drinking water? An unlikely solution to a global crisis
Inspiration struck Yi Zheng on a summer visit to a local dairy farm. There were cows and horses and, Zheng noticed, that meant that there was manure everywhere.
Materials Science
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Academics recreate supernova reaction in a lab
Researchers in Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group have collaborated with TRIUMF National Laboratory (Canada) to achieve the first direct measurement of a supernova reaction in a laboratory using an accelerated beam of radioactive ...
Plasma Physics
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One of the first models to capture dynamics of confined cell movement
The process of normal cell division in the human body is quite simple: start dividing in response to a signal, such as a wound, and stop when enough cells have been produced and the skin is healed. But cancerous cells ignore ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth's atmosphere, and they affect the climate
Microplastics are found in the most remote places on land and in the ocean as well as in our food. Now several studies around the world have confirmed they are also present in the air we breathe.
Environment
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'Junk DNA' is a double-edged sword, and the good side has anti-cancer potential
Rochester biologists show how selfish genetic elements that can cause tumors may also trigger the death of cancer cells.
Genetics
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Northern white rhino retired from world-first breeding project
Scientists attempting to bring back the near-extinct northern white rhinoceros announced Thursday they would stop harvesting eggs from one of two remaining live specimens involved in an unprecedented breeding programme.
Plants & Animals
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World's first smart bandage detects multiple biomarkers for onsite chronic wound monitoring
A research team led by Professor Lim Chwee Teck from the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech), in collaboration with ...
Biomedical technology
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Broad-spectrum malaria vaccine developed
Griffith University researchers are a step closer in the fight against malaria with the development of a broad-spectrum vaccine that can be freeze-dried making it suitable for deployment into malaria-endemic countries.
Medications
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Vaccines offer strong protection against death from Delta, study says
Vaccination is over 90 percent effective at preventing deaths from the Delta variant of COVID-19, according to the first country-level data on mortality.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Measuring financial and digital literacy in vulnerable populations
Financial inclusion is key to improving economic and social welfare, reducing inequality, and promoting economic growth. Globally, 1.7 billion people have limited access to financial services, especially in the developing ...
Breaking trade-off problem that limits thermoelectric conversion efficiency of waste heat
In recent years, energy consumption in developed countries has been rather wasteful. Nearly two-thirds of the total energy is typically discarded as "waste heat," which ends up contributing to global warming. Finding a way ...
Thinking collectively to understand the social intelligence of animals
What if, in order to understand the social intelligence of animals, including humans, we had to study the brain at the group level and not only at rather than the individual level? This is a perspective put forward by Julia ...
Europe reels from powerful 'Aurore' storm
Parts of northern Europe were scrambling to restore electricity services Thursday after gale-force winds which also disrupted rail and air travel.
Cyprus aims for Mars with X-Ray rock dating instrument
Tiny Cyprus aims to join the global space exploration drive by developing a compact, X-Ray instrument capable of dating Martian soil and rock samples relatively accurately to potentially reveal more about the Red Planet's ...
Understanding consumer perceptions of sustainability in the dairy industry
Consumer definitions of sustainability are often different than industry definitions. Understanding consumer preferences and opinions of sustainability within the dairy industry can help dairy product developers successfully ...
Physicists describe photons' characteristics to protect future quantum computing
Consumers need to be confident that transactions they make online are safe and secure. A main method to protect customer transactions and other information is through encryption, where vital information is encoded with a ...
Bright prospects for OCT retinal scans at 30
Around the world, every second, someone gets a retinal OCT scan, typically as a routine portion of an eye exam. The high-resolution images obtained by OCT allow ophthalmologists to diagnose and monitor treatment for many ...
On the hunt for hypernuclei
With the WASA detector, a very special instrument is currently being set up at GSI/FAIR. Together with the fragment separator FRS, it will be used to produce and study so-called hypernuclei during the upcoming experiment ...
DNA fingerprinting taro: The 'food of gods'
The tropical root vegetable taro, known as the 'food of the gods' in the Pacific, is under threat from rising sea levels but wild Australian plants being cultivated by The University of Queensland may help boost food security ...
Gun-toting robo-dogs look like a dystopian nightmare. That's why they offer a powerful moral lesson
US-based military robot manufacturer Ghost Robotics has strapped a sniper rifle to a robotic dog, in the latest step towards autonomous weaponry.
Shedding light on microbial communities in deep aquifers
Underground in peridotite aquifers, the rock can interact with water to produce hydrogen, which microbes can use to power their cells, research suggests. Yet much of the research on these water-rock interactions has been ...
Ten mysteries of Venus
The surface of Venus is completely inhospitable for life: barren, dry, crushed under an atmosphere about 90 times the pressure of Earth's and roasted by temperatures two times hotter than an oven. But was it always that way? ...
Interactions with unreliable infrastructures could be key to smart city design
The advance toward smart cities promises improved quality of life through vast networked computing systems and integrated technologies that connect major public systems and infrastructures.
Caribbean-South American plate boundary primed for major earthquake
Faults along the central portion of the Caribbean-South American tectonic plate boundary are primed to produce a powerful earthquake, posing a potentially serious hazard to northern Venezuela, according to an international ...
Flint water crisis worsened birth outcomes, especially for Black babies
Not long after Flint, Michigan, started using river water as the local drinking supply, incidences of childhood lead poisoning skyrocketed. For the next several months, residents across the city—many of them Black and below ...
Two new species of skinks identified
To coincide with National Reptile Awareness Day today Thursday 21 October, a new paper published in the Journal of Herpetology, led by South Australian Museum Honorary Researcher Dr. Mark Hutchinson in collaboration with ...
Study reveals inland arid climate dynamics over Asia since the Holocene
A joint research team led by Prof. Shi Zhengguo from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators revealed the inland arid climate dynamics over Asia since the Holocene.
Researchers name ancient eel-like species after Black Sabbath guitarist
In a recent study, a group of geology researchers at Lund University unveiled three newly discovered species of conodonts, a type of jawless ancient fish. One of the species has been named Drepanoistodus iommii—a tribute ...
NEID spectrometer lights up path to exoplanet exploration
A new NASA instrument will look for planets by detecting subtle wobbles from their parent stars. To prepare, it will study the sun.
