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Soft Matter 20 hours ago

A step toward plant-based gelatin: Gum tragacanth shows promise for reducing animal use

With increased awareness about food sources and their environmental impacts, replacing animal-derived products in food and drugs is a significant research area. One common—but often overlooked—animal protein is gelatin, ...

Ecology 20 hours ago

Scientists consider cross-breeding to save Australia's orange-bellied parrot from extinction

A team of environmental scientists at the University of Sydney, working with a pair of colleagues from the University of Copenhagen, are pondering possible ways to save the extremely endangered orange-bellied parrot. In their ...

Veterinary medicine 21 hours ago

Study highlights how frustration can lead to failure for search and rescue dogs

Search and rescue dogs are heroes in fur coats, using their incredible sense of smell to find lost hikers, disaster victims, and missing people. But a new study suggests that these life-saving dogs may face an unexpected ...

Condensed Matter 22 hours ago

Magnesium becomes a possible superconductor near the 2D limit

Magnesium is a common chemical element, an alkaline earth metal, which is highly chemically reactive and is very light (even lighter than aluminum). Magnesium is abundant in plants and minerals and plays a role in human physiology ...

Optics & Photonics 23 hours ago

Revolutionizing 3D vision: How miniaturized snapshot polarization imaging is transforming depth sensing

Capturing precise 3D details with a single camera has long been a challenge. Traditional methods often require complex dual-camera setups or specialized lighting conditions that are impractical for real-world applications. ...

Nanomaterials Apr 1, 2025

New flexible nanofiber material combines strong microwave absorption with exceptional thermal insulation

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Huang Zhulin from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully synthesized a flexible nanofiber felt with ultralow thermal conductivity and ...

Condensed Matter Mar 31, 2025

A quantum superhighway for ultrafast NOON states

Until now, creating quantum superpositions of ultra-cold atoms has been a real headache, too slow to be realistic in the laboratory. Researchers at the University of Liège have now developed an innovative new approach combining ...

General Physics Mar 31, 2025

No technical obstacles to new giant particle collider in Europe: CERN

Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday that a detailed analysis revealed no technical obstacles to building the world's biggest particle collider, even as critics took issue with the "pharaonic" $17-billion project.

Condensed Matter Mar 31, 2025

Study resolves long-standing debate on low-pressure phase transitions in hafnium oxide

Researchers from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Southwest Jiaotong University, have combined high-pressure electrical ...

General Physics Mar 31, 2025

Europe's plans for an even bigger particle collider, explained

Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger than its Large Hadron Collider to continue searching for answers to some of the universe's tiniest yet most profound mysteries.

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