A team of researchers from National Tsing Hua University and National Cheng Kung University, both in Taiwan, has developed a low-cost, portable medical sensor package that has the potential to alert users of medical issues ...
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 23, 2018
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Researchers at Purdue University have performed the first experimental tests of several fundamental theorems in thermodynamics, verifying the relationship between them and providing a better understanding of how nanoparticles ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 23, 2018
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Researchers at Purdue University have developed new heterostructures that could make optoelectrical devices, such as solar panels and sensors, more efficient.
Nanomaterials
Feb 23, 2018
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With the aim of making the best possible use of existing satellites, ESA and Canada have made a deal that turns Swarm into a four-satellite mission to shed even more light on space weather and features such as the aurora ...
Space Exploration
Feb 23, 2018
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Global funding to revolutionise waste management in the world's worst polluting countries could clean up ocean plastic by 77% by 2025.
Environment
Feb 23, 2018
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Harvard researchers have developed a metasurface comprising a single planar layer of nanostructures exhibiting strong optical chirality in transmission. This means it can let circularly polarized light of one polarization ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 23, 2018
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Belgian, English and Australian scientists are calling on the Australian authorities to review their decision to introduce the carp herpes virus as a way to combat the common carp invading the country's rivers. In a letter ...
Ecology
Feb 23, 2018
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It is one of the most astonishing results of physics—when a complex system is left alone, it will return to its initial state with almost perfect precision. Gas particles, for example, chaotically swirling around in a container, ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 23, 2018
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Nanomedicines need to be taken up by diseased cells in order to release their cargo. Cancer cells have altered membrane properties that hamper their ability to take up nanomedicines. A research team led by Prof. Dr. Prasad ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 23, 2018
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Quantum computers may one day solve algorithmic problems that even the biggest supercomputers today can't manage. But how do you test a quantum computer to ensure it is working reliably? Depending on the algorithmic task, ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 23, 2018
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