Northwestern Medicine studies published in Nature Cell Biology and Molecular Cell are improving the understanding of epigenetic mechanisms in cancer development and progression, as well as pinpointing genes that drive the ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 6, 2021
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Tomorrow's cutting-edge technology will need electronics that can tolerate extreme conditions. That's why a group of researchers led by Michigan State University's Jason Nicholas is building stronger circuits today.
Materials Science
Apr 29, 2021
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Claiming that something has a defect normally suggests an undesirable feature. That's not the case in solid-state systems, such as the semiconductors at the heart of modern classical electronic devices. They work because ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 29, 2021
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The ability to turn on and off a physical process with just one photon is a fundamental building block for quantum photonic technologies. Realizing this in a chip-scale architecture is important for scalability, which amplifies ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 28, 2021
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Liquid Crystals (LC) are widely deployed in display technology and optical fibers. From smartphones in your pockets to large screen TVs, LCs are everywhere, as this special state of matter has been found in colorful soap ...
Materials Science
Apr 19, 2021
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A team of polymer science and engineering researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has demonstrated for the first time that the positions of tiny, flat, solid objects integrated in nanometrically thin membranes—resembling ...
Materials Science
Apr 5, 2021
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Glass, rubber and plastics all belong to a class of matter called amorphous solids. And in spite of how common they are in our everyday lives, amorphous solids have long posed a challenge to scientists.
Materials Science
Mar 31, 2021
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156
Skyrmions—tiny magnetic vortices—are considered promising candidates for tomorrow's information memory devices which may be able to achieve enormous data storage and processing capacities. A research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum ...
Materials Science
Mar 31, 2021
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26
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have mapped the dynamics of a catalyst's active site in three dimensions. This achievement gives researchers new insights into how these catalysts work, and ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 24, 2021
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26
New measurements have solved a mystery in solid state physics: How is it that certain metals do not seem to adhere to the valid rules?
Materials Science
Mar 15, 2021
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