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October 14, 2024
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Oct. 11, 2024 — Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers took the imaginary scenes from Spider-Man seriously and created the first web-slinging technology in which a fluid material can shoot from a needle, immediately solidify as a string, and adhere to and lift ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, materials scientists have developed materials made of tiny, flexible nano-sized ribbons that can be charged just like a battery to store energy or record digital ...
Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the Universe was only 700 million years old. This is ...
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Oct. 11, 2024 — Sometimes, we try to capture a QR code with a good digital camera on a smartphone, but the reading eventually fails. This usually happens when the QR code itself is of poor image quality, or if it ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have made a significant advancement in understanding the underlying heating mechanism of the sun's atmosphere, finding that reflected plasma waves could drive the heating of coronal ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed and demonstrated a technique that allows them to engineer a class of materials called layered hybrid perovskites (LHPs) ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — Researchers have observed electric charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials. Using scanning ultrafast electron ...
Oct. 8, 2024 — Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity, which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. Mimicking how some parts of the human ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — New artificial intelligence models for plasma heating can do more than was previously thought possible, not only increasing the prediction speed 10 ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — A research team has devised a unique method to observe changes in materials at the atomic level. The technique opens new avenues for understanding and developing advanced materials for quantum ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Research observing the physical motion of falling ice crystals could help scientists better estimate where and when these crystals will melt into ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — A new solution deposition process for semiconductors yields high-performing transistors by introducing more defects, counterintuitively. Researchers ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have successfully develop single-atom editing technology that maximizes drug ...
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Oct. 12, 2024 — Promising new inroads into critical DNA testing has been forecast by experts who have applied machine learning to DNA profiling. From medical diagnostics to forensic tests and national security, PCR ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results suggest that without 'unmelted' asteroids, ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Scientists have used light to visualize magnetic domains, and manipulated these regions using an electric field, in a quantum antiferromagnet. This method allows real-time observation of magnetic ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers devised a way to expand tissue 20-fold in a single step. Their simple, inexpensive method could pave the way for nearly any biology lab to perform nanoscale ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — A new technique enables makers to finely tune the color, shade, and texture of 3D-printed objects using only one material. The method is faster and uses less material than other ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a low-cost method to significantly reduce this pollution from hydrogen internal combustion engines by improving the efficiency of their catalytic converters. The ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — Per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals, known commonly as PFAS, could take over 40 years to flush out of contaminated ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — Chemists have developed a new chemical reaction that will allow researchers to synthesize selectively the left-handed or right-handed versions of 'mirror molecules' found in nature and ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding. Now, a researcher has ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — When lightning cracks on Earth, especially high-energy electrons may fall out of Earth's inner radiation belt, according to a new study -- an electron 'rain' that could threaten ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — An organic catalyst offers chemists precise control over a vital step in activating ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — Materials researchers have created a new composite material that combines two incompatible properties: stiff yet with a high damping ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — A new computer simulation of how our brains develop and grow neurons has been built. Along with improving our understanding of how the brain works, researchers hope that the models will contribute to ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers have significantly improved a new joining technology, interlocking metasurfaces (ILMs), designed to increase the strength and stability of a structure in comparison to traditional ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — A team of international researchers has developed a natural fabric that urban residents could wear to counter rising temperatures in cities worldwide, caused by buildings, asphalt, and ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — A professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two separate, fundamental problems that have perplexed mathematicians for ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Artificial Intelligence has learned to master language, generate art, and even beat grandmasters at chess. But can it crack the code of abstract reasoning --t hose tricky visual puzzles that leave ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises -- especially when ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Scientists are using mechanisms inspired by nature to create new technological innovations. A team has now created an octopus-inspired adhesive, inspired by the shape of octopus suckers, that can ...
Saturday, October 12, 2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
- How Did the Building Blocks of Life Arrive on Earth?
- Illuminating Quantum Magnets: Light Unveils Magnetic Domains
- A New Method Makes High-Resolution Imaging More Accessible
- New 3D Printing Technique Creates Unique Objects Quickly and With Less Waste
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- Scientists Cut Harmful Pollution from Hydrogen Engines
- It Could Take Over 40 Years for PFAS to Leave Groundwater
- A Look Into 'mirror Molecules' May Lead to New Medicines
- 'Islands' Of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem
- Lightning Strikes Kick Off a Game of Electron Pinball in Space
- A Holy Grail Found for Catalytic Alkane Activation
- A Stiff Material That Stops Vibrations and Noise
- Simulation Mimics How the Brain Grows Neurons, Paving the Way for Future Disease Treatments
Friday, October 11, 2024
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- No Bolts About It: New Technology Improves Structural Strength
- The New Fashion: Clothes That Help Combat Rising Temperatures
- In Double Breakthrough, Mathematician Solves Two Long-Standing Problems
- Can Advanced AI Can Solve Visual Puzzles and Perform Abstract Reasoning?
- NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball
- Octopus-Inspired Technology Successfully Maneuvers Underwater Objects
- Molecule 'handedness' Determines the Strength of a Coupling Between Nuclear Spins
- Researchers Develop New Technique to Measure Previously Undetected Airborne PFAS
- Language Model 'UroBot' Surpasses the Accuracy of Experienced Urologists
- Heavy Metals in the Ocean Become More Toxic
- Breakthrough in Micelle Technology for Effective Dye and Drug Dispersion
- Researchers Succeed in Creating Two Interconnected Vascular Networks
- AI-Trained CCTV in Rivers Can Spot Blockages and Reduce Floods
- Ultra-Sensitive Robotic 'finger' Can Take Patient Pulses, Check for Lumps
- Over 160,000 New Viruses Discovered by AI
- A Matter of Taste: Electronic Tongue Reveals AI 'inner Thoughts'
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- Will AI Tools Revolutionize Public Health? Not If They Continue Following Old Patterns, Researchers Argue
- Atomic-Level Mechanism in Polycrystalline Materials
- Team Engineers New Enzyme to Produce Synthetic Genetic Material
- Scientists Discover Novel Series of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro Inhibitors for Potential New COVID-19 Treatments
- Ice Cream-Inspired Physics: Team Uncovers a Quantum Mpemba Effect, With a Host of 'cool' Implications
- New Insights Into Ammonia Decomposition
- Holographic 3D Printing Has the Potential to Revolutionize Multiple Industries
- Mental Health App Could Help Prevent Depression in Young People at High Risk
- Solar-Powered Desalination System Requires No Extra Batteries
- New Apps Will Enable Safer Indoor Navigation for Visually Impaired
- Despite Progress, China Remains Tethered to Coal as Climate Change Pressures Mount
Monday, October 7, 2024
- AI Speeds Up the Discovery of Energy and Quantum Materials
- New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable
- AI and Quantum Mechanics Team Up to Accelerate Drug Discovery
- Stopping Off-the-Wall Behavior in Fusion Reactors
- A Novel Method to Split Water to Create Hydrogen -- A Clean Source of Fuel
- New Polymer Design Breaks the Tradeoff Between Toughness and Recyclability
- Whale Shark Shipping Collisions May Increase as Oceans Warm
- Researchers Restore the Performance of Quantum Dot Solar Cells as If 'flattening Crumpled Paper'
- Influence of a Black Hole's Spin: First Evidence of Precession in Ultraluminous Accretion Disks
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Monday, October 7, 2024
Friday, October 4, 2024
- Researchers Seek to Improve Advanced Pain Management Using AI for Drug Discovery
- Precise Control for Advanced Materials Design
- Achieving Precise Timing for DNA Droplet Division: A Step Towards Artificial Cells
Monday, October 7, 2024
Thursday, October 3, 2024
- Liquefied Natural Gas Carbon Footprint Is Worse Than Coal
- Scientists Develop Novel Method for Strengthening PVC Products
- In Odd Galaxy, NASA's Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars
- A New Era of Solar Observation
- Quantum Researchers Come Up With a Recipe That Could Accelerate Drug Development
- Logic With Light: Introducing Diffraction Casting, Optical-Based Parallel Computing
- Widespread Ice Deposits on the Moon
- Strong Coupling Between Andreev Qubits Mediated by a Microwave Resonator
- Engineers Create a Chip-Based Tractor Beam for Biological Particles
- New Imaging Technique Accurately Detects Aggressive Kidney Cancer
- Nanostructures in the Deep Ocean Floor Hint at Life's Origin
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- New Theory Demystifies Crystallization Process
- deepSPACE Design Tool Takes a Concept to a Multitude of Configurations
- New Design Overcomes Key Barrier to Safer, More Efficient EV Batteries
- Spinning out a New Biomaterials Startup Is Harder Than You Think
- Higher-Order Interactions Can Remodel the Landscape of Complex Systems
- New Method of Generating Multiple, Tunable Nanopores Could Revolutionize Membrane Technology
- Mystery of Uruguay's Amethyst Geodes: New Model to Explain Amethyst Formation
- Researchers Create Orientation-Independent Magnetic Field-Sensing Nanotube Spin Qubits
- NASA's TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets
- Discovery of Promising Electrolyte for All-Solid-State Batteries
- A Leap in Behavioral Modelling: Scientists Replicate Animal Movements With Unprecedented Accuracy
- Nanopillars Create Tiny Openings in the Nucleus Without Damaging Cells
- A New Injectable to Prevent and Treat Hypoglycemia
- Turning Plants Into Workout Supplement Bio-Factories
- A Gentle and Versatile Robotic Gripper for Efficient Crop Harvesting
- AI Simulation Gives People a Glimpse of Their Potential Future Self
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- Research Provides New Insights Into Role of Mechanical Forces in Gene Expression
- Physicists Explore Possibility of Life Beyond Earth
- Seeing Double: Designing Drugs That Target 'twin' Cancer Proteins
- New Security Protocol Shields Data from Attackers During Cloud-Based Computation
- It All Adds Up: Study Finds Forever Chemicals Are More Toxic as Mixtures
- Using Antimatter to Detect Nuclear Radiation
- Sustainably Produced Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient Carbon Dioxide Capture
- ChatGPT Shows Human-Level Assessment of Brain Tumor MRI Reports
- Researchers Observe Hidden Deformations in Complex Light Fields
- Cool Roofs Could Have Saved Lives During London's Hottest Summer, Say Researchers
- Research Heralds New Era for Genetics
- Siloxane Nanoparticles Unlock Precise Organ Targeting for mRNA Therapy
- NMR-Guided Optimization of Lipid Nanoparticles for Enhanced siRNA Delivery
- High Costs Slow Widespread Use of Heat Pumps, Study Shows
- Stronger Together: Miniature Robots in Convoy for Endoscopic Surgery
- Scientists Discover Planet Orbiting Closest Single Star to Our Sun
- Feet First: AI Reveals How Infants Connect With Their World