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Materials Sciences

Upgraded Test Strips Use Nanoparticles for Cancer Detection

However, there's a lot more hCG in pee than there is of cancer biomarkers in blood. Identifying minute concentrations is the greatest challenge of test strips…

Process Engineering

Conformal Metasurface Coating Reduces Crosstalk in Waveguides

“PRESiCE will allow more companies to get into the SiC market, because they won't have to initially develop their own design and manufacturing process for…

Materials Sciences

Artificial 'skin' gives robotic hand a sense of touch

A team of researchers from the University of Houston has reported a breakthrough in stretchable electronics that can serve as an artificial skin, allowing a…

Information Technology

Researchers develop spectroscopic 'science camera' system for smartphones

Three years ago, the National Science Foundation provided a pair of University of Illinois professors with a grant to develop technology called…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers create first global map of water in moon's soil

The study, published in Science Advances, builds on the initial discovery in 2009 of water and a related molecule — hydroxyl, which consists of one atom each…

Physics & Astronomy

New Gravity Map Reveals Mars’ Porous Crust Insights

A lower density likely means that at least part of Mars' crust is relatively porous. At this point, however, the team cannot rule out the possibility of a…

Life & Chemistry

New Inhibitor Offers Hope for Biological Signaling Advances

Scientists from the cluster of excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies at the University of Freiburg and the Freiburg University Medical…

Health & Medicine

Asthma Relief: Discover Coralberry’s Winter Berries Benefits

The coralberry is no outstanding beauty most of the year. This however changes in the winter months: it then forms striking, bright red berries, which make it…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Sensors Unlock Magnetic Ordering in Multiferroics

Multiferroics are materials that simultaneously react to electric and magnetic fields. These two properties are rarely found together, and their combined…

Health & Medicine

Fast, convenient & standardized: New lab innovation for automated tissue engineering & drug

MBM ScienceBridge GmbH successfully negotiated a license agreement between University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the biotech company Tissue Systems…

Physics & Astronomy

Magnetism Meets Surfing: Innovations in Nanoscale Control

Controlling the magnetic properties of materials is fundamental for developing memory, computing and communication devices at the nanoscale. As data storage…

Life & Chemistry

Transplanted Hearts Study Identifies New Cardiovascular Risk Gene

We know of many genes with variants that make us particularly prone to cardiovascular disease. But there are gaps in our knowledge. It is not just the genes…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Flexible OLEDs: New Adjustable Color Designs for Lighting

With their unique characteristics like bendabilty, segmentation, transparency, and their nearly unlimited range of shapes, organic light-emitting diodes…

Information Technology

First On-Chip Nanoscale Optical Quantum Memory Unveiled

For the first time, an international team led by engineers at Caltech has developed a computer chip with nanoscale optical quantum memory.

Transportation and Logistics

New Record Set for Medical Drone Transport: 161 Miles Achieved

Johns Hopkins researchers have set a new delivery distance record for medical drones, successfully transporting human blood samples across 161 miles of Arizona…

Physics & Astronomy

Amplifying Optical Signals in Titanium Nitride Nanoantennas

The coherent amplification of a localized optical signal within a planar titanium nitride nanoantenna has been achieved by scientists of Kazan Federal…

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