Scientists induce artificial 'magnetic texture' in graphene
Graphene is incredibly strong, lightweight, conductive ... the list of its superlative properties goes on.
Nanomaterials
5 hours ago
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Bar-Ilan University
Skeletons reveal humans evolved to fight pathogens
As COVID-19 impacts lives around the world—a new skeleton study is reconstructing ancient pandemics to assess human's evolutionary ability to fight off leprosy, tuberculosis and treponematoses with help from declining rates ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Chip simplifies COVID-19 testing, delivers results on a phone
COVID-19 can be diagnosed in 55 minutes or less with the help of programmed magnetic nanobeads and a diagnostic tool that plugs into an off-the-shelf cell phone, according to Rice University engineers.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
5 hours ago
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Theory could accelerate push for spintronic devices
A new theory by Rice University scientists could boost the growing field of spintronics, devices that depend on the state of an electron as much as the brute electrical force required to push it.
Materials Science
5 hours ago
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Harnessing the power of proteins in our cells to combat disease
Over many decades now, traditional drug discovery methods have steadily improved at keeping diseases at bay and cancer in remission. And for the most part, it's worked well.
Oncology & Cancer
5 hours ago
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First rebbachisaurid dinosaur remains found in Asia
A pair of researchers with the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Museum of Natural History in the U.S., respectively, has respectively, uncovered the first known example of a rebbachisaurid dinosaur to be found ...
Researchers develop drive-thru type test to detect viral infections in bacteria
The pandemic has made clear the threat that some viruses pose to people. But viruses can also infect life-sustaining bacteria and a Johns Hopkins University-led team has developed a test to determine if bacteria are sick, ...
Medical research
5 hours ago
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Research identifies obesity and infection link, as well as treatment found on healthy human skin
The list of diseases and conditions complicated by obesity is a long one; it includes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and impaired wound healing, as well as skin infections. It is not always clear, however, in what way this ...
Reinforcement learning algorithms score higher than humans, other AI systems at classic video games
A team of researchers at Uber AI Labs in San Francisco has developed a set of learning algorithms that proved to be better at playing classic video games than human players or other AI systems. In their paper published in ...
Software
A 4.4 million-year-old skeleton could reveal how early humans began to walk upright
Evolutionary expert Charles Darwin and others recognized a close evolutionary relationship between humans, chimps and gorillas based on their shared anatomies, raising some big questions: how are humans related to other primates, ...
Archaeology
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