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Optics & Photonics Dec 4, 2023

Q&A: Unveiling a new era of imaging—engineers lead breakthrough microscopy techniques

When microscopes struggle to pick up faint signals, it's like trying to spot subtle details in a painting or photograph without your glasses. For researchers, this makes it difficult to catch the small things happening in ...

Nanophysics Dec 4, 2023

Optical data storage breakthrough increases capacity of diamonds by circumventing the diffraction limit

Physicists at The City College of New York have developed a technique with the potential to enhance optical data storage capacity in diamonds. This is possible by multiplexing the storage in the spectral domain. The research ...

Bio & Medicine Dec 4, 2023

Breakthroughs in nanosized contrast agents and drug carriers through self-folding molecules

Self-folding polymers containing gadolinium forming nanosized complexes could be the key to enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and next-generation drug delivery, as demonstrated by scientists at Tokyo Tech. Thanks to their ...

Cell & Microbiology Dec 1, 2023

Nature's palette reinvented: New fermentation breakthrough in sustainable food coloring

Researchers from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (DTU Biosustain) have developed an innovative fermentation process that produces natural betalain-type food colors. This groundbreaking technology ...

Economics & Business Nov 29, 2023

Remote collaborations deliver fewer scientific breakthroughs, co-led research finds

Remote teams are less likely to make breakthrough discoveries compared to those who work onsite, according to research led by the universities of Oxford and Pittsburgh into the rise of remote collaborations among scientists ...

Analytical Chemistry Nov 28, 2023

Harnessing cutting-edge tech for cleaner nuclear energy: Breakthrough in iodine capture

In a study published in the journal Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, researchers from Sichuan University have unveiled significant insights into the structure–performance relationships of metal–organic frameworks ...

Nanophysics Nov 13, 2023

Researchers' breakthrough in thermal transport could enable novel cooling strategies

Vanderbilt mechanical engineering professors Deyu Li and Josh Caldwell are part of a team of researchers who have discovered a new heat dissipation channel using phonon polaritons that could have extensive implications for ...

Environment Nov 10, 2023

COP28: A year after climate change funding breakthrough, poor countries eye disappointment at Dubai summit

At the COP27 summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, an agreement to establish a loss and damage fund was hailed as a major breakthrough on one of the trickiest topics in the UN climate change negotiations. In an otherwise frustrating ...

Mathematics Nov 3, 2023

Climate tipping points easier to judge with math breakthrough

Math experts have developed new ways to provide further evidence for human-caused global heating and predict how close Earth is to reaching dangerous climate tipping points.

Analytical Chemistry Nov 1, 2023

Chemists make breakthrough in drug discovery chemistry: Two methods to replace carbon with a nitrogen atom in a molecule

For years, if you asked the people working to create new pharmaceutical drugs what they wished for, at the top of their lists would be a way to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a molecule.

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