Research has shown that a thin cellulose film can inactivate the SARS-CoV-2 virus within minutes, inhibit the growth of bacteria including E. coli, and mitigate contact transfer of pathogens.
Biochemistry
May 17, 2023
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Researchers in Biomedical Engineering Professor Tal Danino's lab were brainstorming several years ago about how they could engineer and apply naturally-pattern-forming bacteria. There are many bacteria species, such as Proteus ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 9, 2023
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Searching for life's building blocks light-years away is an important task of the James Webb Space Telescope. But how does it know what to look for? Ph.D. student Marina Gomes Rachid is offering a helping hand by mapping ...
Astronomy
May 3, 2023
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The famous first image of a black hole just got two times sharper. A research team used artificial intelligence to dramatically improve upon its first image from 2019, which now shows the black hole at the center of the M87 ...
Astronomy
May 3, 2023
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Inside a lab, scientists marvel at a strange state that forms when they cool down atoms to nearly absolute zero. Outside their window, trees gather sunlight and turn them into new leaves. The two seem unrelated—but a new ...
General Physics
May 3, 2023
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An international team led by scientists at the University of Sydney has demonstrated nanowire networks can exhibit both short- and long-term memory like the human brain.
Nanophysics
Apr 21, 2023
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Astronomer Carl Sagan famously said that there were more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
Astronomy
Mar 28, 2023
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More than half the solar system's planets will align Monday in a rarely seen spectacle, arcing across a corner of the night sky.
Astronomy
Mar 23, 2023
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Looking at the night sky with the naked eye, we can only see an infinitesimal part of what the Universe contains, and the largest part cannot even be "seen". Radio wavelengths have gifted us some of the most fascinating astronomical ...
Astronomy
Mar 8, 2023
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Researchers from the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, have described the symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae that science has largely overlooked until now. The coexistence of algae and corticioid ...
Ecology
Feb 28, 2023
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