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Life & Chemistry

Cohesin – a molecular motor that folds our genome

To pack the genetic information, inscribed in roughly two metres of DNA, into its nucleus, a human cell must achieve the equivalent of fitting an…

Health & Medicine

Magnesium Deprivation: A New Way to Halt Pathogen Growth

When pathogens infect an organism, the defense system immediately starts to fight the bacteria. To escape the patrolling immune cells, some bacteria invade and…

Health & Medicine

Enhancing Pacemaker Longevity With New Protective Innovations

“Every pacemaker has to be replaced at some point. When this time comes, typically after about five years when the device's battery expires, the patient has to…

Studies and Analyses

Detecting Stress and Heart Rate with Your Smartphone

Can we use our smartphones without any other peripherals or wearables to accurately extract vital parameters, such as heart beat rate and stress level?

Physics & Astronomy

First Look at Energetic Particles from a Gamma-Ray Burst

Gamma Ray Burst – what is that?

Life & Chemistry

New Path for PHAs: Eco-Friendly Bioplastics Innovation

A tide of public momentum is swelling against the crisis of petroleum-based plastics, which are sitting in our landfills, floating in our oceans, and showing…

Health & Medicine

Emerging Antibiotic Resistance During Standard Therapy Trends

Antibiotic-resistant pathogens pose one of the greatest threats to public health worldwide. In the near future, harmless bacterial infections may no longer be…

Life & Chemistry

Rapid Cell Division Achieved in Marine Sponges by Scientists

Vertebrate, insect, and plant cell lines are important tools for research in many disciplines, including human health, evolutionary and developmental biology,…

Physics & Astronomy

First Detection of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow in High Energy

On 20 July 2018, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor and a few seconds later the Swift Burst Alert Telescope notified the world of a gamma-ray burst, GRB…

Physics & Astronomy

Three Supermassive Black Holes Found in One Galaxy

Massive Galaxies like the Milky Way typically consist of hundreds of billions of stars and host a black hole with a mass of several million up to several 100…

Life & Chemistry

CUHK Engineering Innovates with Novel Imaging Technique

The research result has been published in the journal Optics Letters recently.

Interdisciplinary Research

Designer Lens Enhances Microscopy for Clearer Insights

In its simplest form, microscopy creates an image of an object by measuring the intensity of light passing through it. This requires a sample that scatters and…

Interdisciplinary Research

Pocket-Sized Soft Robots for Environmental Monitoring

This new advance, published in Soft Robotics, could create new thin and light robots for environmental monitoring and deployment in hazardous environments,…

Life & Chemistry

Smart Microscope Enhances Diagnosis with Adaptive Lighting

Engineers at Duke University have developed a microscope that adapts its lighting angles, colors and patterns while teaching itself the optimal…

Materials Sciences

Creating Nanostructured Metals: A New Method Unveiled

Scientists have developed a new approach for making metal-metal composites and porous metals with a 3-D interconnected “bicontinuous” structure in thin films…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Hybrid Device Captures and Stores Solar Energy Efficiently

Researchers from the University of Houston have reported a new device that can both efficiently capture solar energy and store it until it is needed, offering…

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