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Voice-Activated Bandage: A New Approach to Wound Care

All too often, changing bandages is extremely unpleasant, even for smaller, everyday injuries. It stings and pulls, and sometimes a scab will even start…

Architecture & Construction

Wood Meets Concrete: A New Era in Sustainable Building

Houses can be made of wood, as they were in the past – or of concrete, as they are today. To build for tomorrow, the two building methods are being combined:…

Earth Sciences

NASA Investigates Tropical Storm Nanmadol’s Impact and Formation

Before consolidating into the fifth depression of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean's hurricane season, Nanmadol was a low pressure system designated System 99W….

Physics & Astronomy

Musical Sun: How Solar Sounds Reduce Magnetic Activity

Prof Yvonne Elsworth, of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham, explains: “The Sun is very much like a musical instrument except…

Life & Chemistry

Drug discovery: Alzheimer's and Parkinson's spurred by same enzyme

Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are not the same. They affect different regions of the brain and have distinct genetic and environmental risk…

Life & Chemistry

UNIST Researchers Discover Method to Target Cancer Cell Mitochondria

A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has developed a new method to target the mitochondria of a cancer cell. The research team expects that their study could…

Physics & Astronomy

ANU’s Thin Material Shields Astronauts From Space Radiation

Lead researcher Dr Mohsen Rahmani from ANU said the material was so thin that hundreds of layers could fit on the tip of a needle and could be applied to any…

Physics & Astronomy

Long Duration Experiments Celebrate 1,000 Days of Innovation

The first experiment placed on Diamond's Long Duration Experimental (LDE) facility, on beamline I11, has now been in place for 1,000 days. The experiment, led…

Information Technology

Making Waves: Innovations in Water Dynamics and Technology

Think about the last time you were at a lake, river, or the ocean. Remember the ripples of the water, the waves crashing against the rocks, the wake following…

Earth Sciences

Enhancing Climate Models: Solar Variability Impact Explained

How much do solar cycle variations influence our climate system? Could the rising Earth temperatures due to anthropogenic effects partly be compensated by a…

Life & Chemistry

Tilted Microscopy Technique Enhances Protein Structure Insights

“People have tried to implement tilting before, but there have been a lot of challenges,” says Lyumkis, a Helmsley-Salk Fellow at the Salk Institute and senior…

Physics & Astronomy

European XFEL Begins Operations: Bright X-Ray Innovations

The X-ray laser produces extremely bright and short X-ray flashes that, with the help of specialised experiment stations, allow scientists to gain completely…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Probes Enhance Non-Invasive Nuclear Spin Detection

Researchers at the University of Melbourne have demonstrated a way to detect nuclear spins in molecules non-invasively, providing a new tool for biotechnology…

Medical Engineering

New Blood Test Detects Sepsis Signs in Just One Drop

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois and Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois, completed a clinical study of the device, which is the…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Explores Bacteria Control on Medical Surfaces

A flexible tail allows swimming bacteria to thin the surrounding liquid and to free themselves when trapped along walls or obstacles. This finding could…

Health & Medicine

Miniature Tech: A New Era in Disease Detection

The field of medicine is always on the lookout for better disease diagnostic tools–simpler, faster, and cheaper technologies to enhance patient treatment and…

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