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Analytical Chemistry Feb 1, 2022

Single-use sensor strips detect cerebrospinal fluid leaks

Developing rapid clinical testing for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks after trauma, surgery, tumors, and other defects are vital, because such leaks can cause life-threatening conditions, such as meningitis and intercranial ...

Biotechnology Jan 31, 2022

A new method for mapping gene expression deep in the body could one day be used to track stem cells or cancer therapy

Even fans of black-and-white film can't deny that color brought new life to photography and motion pictures. And when it comes to learning what happens inside the body, there's no substitute for color. Were it possible, for ...

Social Sciences Jan 18, 2022

How diversity of test subjects is a technology blind spot, and what to do about it

People interact with machines in countless ways every day. In some cases, they actively control a device, like driving a car or using an app on a smartphone. Sometimes people passively interact with a device, like being imaged ...

Nanophysics Jan 6, 2022

Nematicity is a new piece in double bilayer graphene phase diagram puzzle

Although twisted sheets of double bilayer graphene have been studied extensively the past few years, there are still pieces missing in the puzzle that is its phase diagram—the different undisturbed, ground states of the ...

Bio & Medicine Jan 5, 2022

Precise antitumor strategy achieved via photo-switchable lanthanide-doped nanoparticles

Lanthanide-doped nanoparticles (LnNPs) can harvest the near-infrared (NIR) light to emit higher energy photons (upconversion) or lower energy photons (downshifting). In a recent study published in ACS Nano, a team led by ...

Biotechnology Dec 30, 2021

Speeding up directed evolution of molecules in the lab using a new robotic platform

Natural evolution is a slow process that relies on the gradual accumulation of genetic mutations. In recent years, scientists have found ways to speed up the process on a small scale, allowing them to rapidly create new proteins ...

Superconductivity Dec 17, 2021

Redrawing the lines: Growing inexpensive, high-quality iron-based superconductors

Superconducting materials show zero electrical resistance at low temperatures, which allows them to conduct "supercurrents" without dissipation. Recently, a group of scientists led by Dr. Kazumasa Iida from Nagoya University, ...

Astronomy Dec 14, 2021

Peering at the universe from the bottom of the Earth

Argonne scientists Lindsey Bleem and Clarence Chang talk about what it's like to look for signals from the early universe from the South Pole Telescope.

Astronomy Dec 8, 2021

Research reveals how plasma swirling around black holes can produce heat and light

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have uncovered a process in the swirling masses of plasma surrounding black holes and neutron stars that can cause previously ...

Earth Sciences Dec 7, 2021

New tools to unearth rare metals

A new understanding of how volcanic processes form deposits of rare earth metals, vital to everyday modern technology, is revealed in a new study from the University of St Andrews.

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