How an African bird might inspire a better water bottle
An extreme closeup of feathers from a bird with an uncanny ability to hold water while it flies could inspire the next generation of absorbent materials.
An extreme closeup of feathers from a bird with an uncanny ability to hold water while it flies could inspire the next generation of absorbent materials.
Plants & Animals
Apr 11, 2023
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Developed at Harvard, and successfully tested at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), a revolutionary new meta-optics for microscopes with extremely high spatial and temporal resolution has proven its functional ability ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 6, 2023
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A quartet of mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas has discovered a 2D geometric shape that does not repeat itself when tiled. David ...
Scientists with the University of Chicago and Shanxi University announced they have created a way to use lasers to "simulate" a material that physicists have been drooling over for its potential technological applications ...
Superconductivity
Mar 21, 2023
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Inflammatory neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), can arise when cell-to-cell communication between cells in the central nervous system (CNS) goes awry. But exactly how this cellular crosstalk leads to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 11, 2023
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The peculiar topological properties of some forms of matter have been researched for decades. Now, researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have discovered topological properties of simple diatomic ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 10, 2023
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HRL Laboratories, LLC, has published the first demonstration of universal control of encoded spin qubits. This newly emerging approach to quantum computation uses a novel silicon-based qubit device architecture, fabricated ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 7, 2023
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The most well-known forms of carbon include graphite and diamond, but there are other more exotic nanoscale allotropes of carbon as well. These include graphene and fullerenes, which are sp2 hybridized carbon with zero (flat-shaped) ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 11, 2023
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Dark energy makes the whole universe expand faster and faster! But what causes this spectacular process? Join NASA's newest citizen science project, Dark Energy Explorers, and help figure out this puzzle.
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2023
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The current rapid tests for diagnosing infectious diseases are speedy, but not really fast. For example, antigen self-tests, PCR tests or ELISA tests for coronavirus take 15 minutes to several hours before a reliable result ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 21, 2022
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