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Physics & Astronomy

Superconducting Circuits: Boosting Energy Efficiency in Chips

Computer chips with superconducting circuits — circuits with zero electrical resistance — would be 50 to 100 times as energy-efficient as today's chips, an…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Discovers Distant Galaxy Using Cosmic Magnifying Glass

This new detection is considered one of the most reliable distance measurements of a galaxy that existed in the early universe, said the Hubble researchers….

Medical Engineering

Siemens Unveils Symbia Evo Excel SPECT for Cost-Effective Scans

Siemens Healthcare introduces the Symbia Evo Excel SPECT system at the 27th Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM). The system is a…

Life & Chemistry

‘Red Effect’ sparks interest in female monkeys

“Previous research shows that the color red in a mating context makes people more attractive, and in the fighting context makes people seem more threatening…

Life & Chemistry

City Lights Extend Foraging Time for Blackbirds

The study showed that artificial light has a considerable influence on the activity times of blackbirds in the city and therefore on their natural cycles,…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Change Shifts Winter Bird Populations: Study Insights

Writing this week in the journal Global Change Biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison wildlife biologists Benjamin Zuckerberg and Karine Princé document that…

Health & Medicine

New Eye Ring Promises Future Without Reading Glasses

A thin ring inserted into the eye could soon offer a reading glasses-free remedy for presbyopia, the blurriness in near vision experienced by many people over…

Health & Medicine

Head Injury Triggers Immune Attack on Brain, Study Shows

The study, published in the open access journal Acta Neuropathologica Communications, showed that in experiments on mice, an immune-based treatment reduced the…

Life & Chemistry

Lab-Developed Organoids Create Mature Human Tissue in Mice

Researchers have successfully transplanted “organoids” of functioning human intestinal tissue grown from pluripotent stem cells in a lab dish into mice –…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking DNA Nanotechnology for Next-Gen Devices

DNA has garnered attention for its potential as a programmable material platform that could spawn entire new and revolutionary nanodevices in computer science,…

Physics & Astronomy

Magnetic White Dwarfs: Unraveling Their Age Mystery

An international group of astronomers including a scientist from the University of Göttingen has found an explanation of the long-standing mystery of why…

Life & Chemistry

Imaging Electric Charge in Microbial Nanowires

The claim by microbiologist Derek Lovley and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that the microbe Geobacter produces tiny electrical wires,…

Medical Engineering

Tear Duct Implant Reduces Pain in Cataract Surgery Patients

The first tear duct implant developed to treat inflammation and pain following cataract surgery has been shown to be a reliable alternative to medicated eye…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Discovery: Natural Organisms Detoxify Pollutants

The team at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology were investigating how some natural organisms manage to lower the level of toxicity and shorten the life…

Life & Chemistry

New Function of Molecular Light Switches Unveiled

Researchers at Leipzig University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research have now discovered that blue and red light sensing photoreceptors…

Life & Chemistry

New insight that 'mega' cells control the growth of blood-producing cells

In fact, hematopoietic stem cells differentiate to generate megakaryocytes in bone marrow. The Stowers study is the first to show that hematopoietic stem cells…

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