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To tune up your quantum computer, better call an AI mechanic

A high-end race car engine needs all its components tuned and working together precisely to deliver top-quality performance. The same can be said about the…

Earth Sciences

Flooding stunted 2019 cropland growing season, resulting in more atmospheric CO2

For reference, the massive California wildfires of 2018 released an estimated 12.4 million metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere. And although part of this…

Life & Chemistry

University of Innsbruck develops novel corona test method

As requested by the Austrian Federal Government and the WHO, a significant increase in the capacity for coronavirus testing is essential to combat the new…

Life & Chemistry

Blocking Iron Transport: A New Approach to Tuberculosis

One of the most devastating pathogens that lives inside human cells is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. According to the…

Life & Chemistry

A 'cardiac patch with bioink' developed to repair heart

Human stem cells are used in the clinical therapies of a dead heart, which happens when a blood vessel is clogged or whole or a part of heart muscles is…

Life & Chemistry

Ice Surface Fluctuations Boost Autoionization of Water Molecules

Water ice is one of the most abundant solid substances in nature and hydrated protons on the ice surfaces critically influence physical and chemical properties…

Medical Engineering

AI Enhances Stroke Detection Through Advanced Lesion Segmentation

Lesion segmentation is a routine process where the abnormal areas within brain images are qualitatively and manually picked by expert radiologists.

Life & Chemistry

Phage Capsid Blocks Influenza: A New Inhibitor Unveiled

Perfectly fitting binding sites cause influenza viruses to be enveloped by the phage capsids in such a way that it is practically impossible for them to infect…

Information Technology

Tiny Optical Cavity: Key to Advancing Quantum Networks

Quantum networks would connect quantum computers through a system that also operates at a quantum, rather than classical, level. In theory, quantum computers…

Physics & Astronomy

Argonne and CERN Explore Origins of Heavy Elements

Specifically of interest are the physical processes responsible for producing heavy elements — like gold, platinum and uranium — that are thought to happen…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Insights on Plasma Heat Collapses Boost Fusion Energy Potential

Consistent with observations

Environmental Conservation

Improving Plastic Recyclates: Reducing Off-Odor Through Waste Separation

The results of this collaborative study with the Chair of Aroma and Smell Research at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the…

Machine Engineering

Discovering Deep Sea Resources Using Laser Technology

The system for laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) makes it possible to examine material samples for their atomic composition almost non-destructively.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Double-Walled Nanotubes: Boosting Electro-Optical Performance

One nanotube could be great for electronics applications, but there's new evidence that two could be tops.

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Exeter Researchers Unveil New Chemistry for Crop Protection

Currently, we protect our crops against fungal disease by spraying them with anti-fungal chemistries, also known as fungicides.

Life & Chemistry

Microflora of glasses: the mini universe on your nose

„Because many bacteria could not, until now, be cultivated, molecular biological techniques allow completely new insights into the colonisation of everyday…

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