Finding the flux of quantum technology
We interact with bits and bytes everyday—whether that's through sending a text message or receiving an email.
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To fight berry-busting fruit flies, researchers focus on sterilizing the bugs
Paul Nelson is used to doing battle with an invasive fruit fly called the spotted wing drosophila, a pest that one year ruined more than half the berries on the Minnesota farm he and his team run. In recent years, they've ...
Agriculture
Jun 17, 2023
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Researchers turn black bitumen into green carbon fibers
Bitumen, the sticky product from Alberta's oil sands, is normally burned as fuel or gets a second life as asphalt pavement.
Nanomaterials
Jun 13, 2023
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CRISPR/Cas9-based gene drive could suppress agricultural pests
Researchers have developed a "homing gene drive system" based on CRISPR/Cas9 that could be used to suppress populations of Drosophila suzukii vinegar flies—so-called "spotted-wing Drosophila" that devastate soft-skinned ...
Biotechnology
Jun 12, 2023
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Generation game: Gene-edited mosquitos to fight malaria
Population-level changes in the genetic make-up of one of the world's deadliest animals could provide a key in the fight against malaria, proponents of a radical new technology argue.
Ecology
Jun 8, 2023
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Study shows where professionals want to migrate within the European Union
Eastern Europe is the region in the European Union that is least appealing to professionals as a place to settle. A study led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock that used data ...
Economics & Business
Jun 7, 2023
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Active Brownian particles have four distinct states of motion, researchers find
Active Brownian motion describes particles that can propel themselves forward while still being subjected to random Brownian motions as they are jostled around by their neighboring particles. Through a new analysis published ...
General Physics
May 26, 2023
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Medical 'microrobots' could one day treat bladder disease, other human illnesses
A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at incredible speeds—and may one day even deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach ...
Bio & Medicine
May 24, 2023
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Male sex workers are often well-educated and middle class, finds researcher
In a new Ph.D. thesis from Lund University in Sweden, gender studies researcher Marco Bacio interviewed male sex workers in Sweden and Italy. What surprised him the most was that a majority of the sex workers were well-educated—and ...
Social Sciences
May 12, 2023
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Opinion: Most people are terrible at matching faces to photos, making polling checks unreliable
On Thursday May 4, for the first time, members of the public voting in local council elections in England were required to bring photo ID to their polling station. Initial reports suggested that a few people were turned away ...
Political science
May 11, 2023
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