Machine learning could help scientists design better viral diagnostics
Researchers have developed an automated method that predicts the effectiveness of viral diagnostic tests and designs optimized ones.
Researchers have developed an automated method that predicts the effectiveness of viral diagnostic tests and designs optimized ones.
Biotechnology
Mar 4, 2022
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Cockatoos have shown an extraordinary ability to complete a task by combining simple tools, demonstrating that this cognitive ability is not found only in primates.
Plants & Animals
Feb 8, 2022
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Metamaterials, made up of small, repeated structures, engineered to produce desired interactions with light or sound waves, can improve optical devices used in telecommunications, imaging and more. But the functionality of ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 2, 2022
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A research team led by scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has recently designed a structured thermal armor (STA) that achieves efficient liquid cooling even over 1,000°C, fundamentally solving a 266-year-old ...
Soft Matter
Jan 26, 2022
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Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) present the basis for large data rate optical interconnects in data centers. Presently VCSELs have replaced edge-emitting lasers for distances below 500 m due to their advantages ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 7, 2022
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Ultrathin nanomaterials, known as MXenes, are poised to make it easier to monitor a person's well-being by analyzing their perspiration.
Nanomaterials
Jan 3, 2022
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A little wiggle room might be just what the doctor ordered.
Biochemistry
Dec 22, 2021
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For more than three decades, biomedical nanomaterials have been successfully developed for the benefit of theranostics—a compound term referring to the diagnoses and treatment of tumors. The nanoparticles must reach the ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 7, 2021
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The ancient arts of origami, the art of paper-folding, and kirigami, the art of paper-cutting, have gained popularity in recent years among researchers building mechanical metamaterials. Folding and cutting 2D thin-film materials ...
General Physics
Nov 23, 2021
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Chip-scale silicon photonics optical phased array (OPA) is widely used in free-space communication. However, due to the limitation of optical device design and manufacture, the distance between antennas in two-dimensional ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 15, 2021
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