Biotechnology
Feb 16, 2023
AI can track bees on camera: Here's how that will help farmers
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a new way to track the insect pollinators essential to farming.
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Bio & Medicine
Jan 18, 2023
Super-quick COVID test uses new technology
Sticking swabs up our noses and down our throats to confirm or deny whether we are infected with the coronavirus—almost all of us have done it multiple times in the last couple of years.
Optics & Photonics
Jan 5, 2023
Advanced liquid crystal-based switchable optical devices for light protection applications
Human life is inextricably bound to light. Developments in science and technology have increased the popularity of artificial light and diversified the use of sunlight. However, inappropriate light radiation can be harmful ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 6, 2022
Multifunctional terahertz transparency of thermally oxidized vanadium metasurface over insulator metal transition
A research team, led by the Nano Optics Group within the Department of Physics at UNIST has reported achieving all-vanadium dioxide (VO2) multifunctional metasurfaces, which perform as a transparent window in the broadband ...
Polymers
Dec 2, 2022
Going back to basics yields a printable, transparent plastic that's highly conductive
It was a simple idea—maybe even too simple to work.
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 30, 2022
Mechanism of metal-to-insulator transition in ruthenium phosphide suggests a new way of looking at solids
A group from Nagoya University in Japan has discovered a never-before-seen form of ruthenium phosphide with an unusual configuration of atoms and electrons in its cooled state. This may resolve the puzzle of how a metal can ...
General Physics
Nov 28, 2022
New research unearths obscure and contradictory heat transfer behaviors
UCLA researchers and their colleagues have discovered a new physics principle governing how heat transfers through materials, and the finding contradicts the conventional wisdom that heat always moves faster as pressure increases.
Education
Oct 10, 2022
Investing in indoor air quality improvements in schools will reduce COVID transmission and help students learn
As fall temperatures cool across the U.S., many schools will struggle to ventilate classrooms while also keeping students and teachers comfortable and healthy. Children and teachers spend over six hours a day in classrooms ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 3, 2022
Effect of cation types on electrochromic properties of titanium dioxide nanocrystals
Electrochromic (EC) devices have been regarded as promising candidates for energy-saving smart windows, next-generation displays, and wearable electronics. Monovalent ions such as H+ and Li+ based electrolytes are the benchmark ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2022
The koala: When it's smart to be slow
The koala was clinging to an old tree stag while stranded in the Murray River, on the border between New South Wales and Victoria. A team of students from La Trobe University noticed its predicament as they were paddling ...
