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Harvard’s New Platform for Stable Quantum Computing

Move over Godzilla vs. King Kong — this is the crossover event you've been waiting for. Well, at least if you're a condensed matter physicist. Harvard…

Health & Medicine

Lung Images of Asthmatic Twins Enhance Understanding of Disease

These studies deepen our understanding of asthma and also open up opportunities for personalized therapies that can target specific areas of the lungs. In a…

Materials Sciences

Automation Boosts Advanced Material Creation with Robotics

A Rutgers-led team of engineers has developed an automated way to produce polymers, making it much easier to create advanced materials aimed at improving human…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Marker Identified for Insecticide Resistance in Mosquitoes

For the first time the team characterised three genes (Cyp6m2, Cyp6p3 and Gste2) most often associated with insecticide resistance directly by their…

Physics & Astronomy

Strong Lasers Advance Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research

Nuclear physics usually involves high energies, as illustrated by experiments to master controlled nuclear fusion. One of the problems is how to overcome the…

Environmental Conservation

LED Lights in Fishing Nets Reduce Bycatch by Over 70%

LED lights along the top of floating gillnets cut accidental “bycatch” of sea turtles by more than 70%, and that of small cetaceans (including dolphins and…

Life & Chemistry

Boosting Colon Cancer Diagnosis With Machine Learning Imaging

Colorectal cancer is the second most common type of cancer worldwide, with about 90% of cases occurring in people 50 or older. Arising from the inner surface,…

Medical Engineering

'Virtual biopsy' allows doctors to accurately diagnose precancerous pancreatic cysts

The current standard involves testing the fluid inside the cysts. It correctly identifies them as benign or precancerous 71% of the time. Researchers found…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission explains Bennu's mysterious particle events

The OSIRIS-REx team first observed a particle ejection event in images captured by the spacecraft's navigation cameras taken on Jan. 6, just a week after the…

Information Technology

Exploring Digital Twins: The Future of UAV Delivery Systems

In the not too distant future, we can expect to see our skies filled with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) delivering packages, maybe even people, from location…

Power and Electrical Engineering

A solution for cleaning up PFAS, one of the world's most intractable pollutants

A cluster of industrial chemicals known by the shorthand term “PFAS” has infiltrated the far reaches of our planet with significance that scientists are only…

Life & Chemistry

How Flowers Adapt Shape and Size to Attract Pollinators

Flowering plants are characterized by an astonishing diversity of flowers of different shapes and sizes.

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring the Birth of Photoelectrons and Light-Matter Interaction

The interaction between light and matter is the basis of both many fundamental phenomena and various practical technologies.

Life & Chemistry

What does DNA's repair shop look like? New research identifies the tools

“Our findings show that a DNA repair process is very robust, engineered through intricate structural and dynamical signatures where breaks occur,” explains…

Health & Medicine

Understanding the Dentate Gyrus: Memory’s Critical Connection

The dentate gyrus is the “input point” for the hippocampus part of the brain. It transmits information from the short term memory to the long term. It consists…

Physics & Astronomy

Swiss Space Telescope CHEOPS Launching December 17, 2019

CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space telescope developed and assembled by the University of Bern, in collaboration with…

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