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The birth of a 'snowman' at the edge of the solar system
A model developed at the Faculty of Physics at the Technion, in collaboration with German scientists at Tübingen, explains the unique properties of Arrokoth, the most distant object ever imaged...
Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale
As electronic devices become progressively smaller, the technology that powers them needs to get smaller and thinner.
Insects’ extreme farming methods offer us lessons to learn and oddities to avoid
To picture this farm, imagine some dark blobs dangling high up in a tree. Each blob can reach “about soccer ball size,” says evolutionary biologist Guillaume Chomicki of Durham University in England. From...
Sensors woven into a shirt can monitor vital signs
MIT researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration,...
In glowing colors: Seeing the spread of drug particles in a forensic lab
When two scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) brought black lights and glow powder into the Maryland State Police crime lab, they weren't setting up a...
A novel method to precisely deliver therapeutics inside the body
A new way to deliver therapeutic proteins inside the body uses an acoustically sensitive carrier to encapsulate the proteins and ultrasound to image and guide the package to the exact...
Lifetime to air 'Dance Moms: Abby's Virtual Dance Off'
Lifetime is now accepting applications for a 12-episode competition series called "Dance Moms: Abby's Virtual Dance Off."
Football offensive linemen should start plays upright to avoid hits to the head
Just a simple change to the starting stance of players on the offensive line in American football could significantly reduce hits to the head, a new study now shows.
Major cause of resistance in solid electrolytes
Scientists investigated grain boundaries in a solid electrolyte at an unprecedentedly small scale. The resulting insights provide new avenues for tuning chemical properties in the material to improve performance.
Engineers' 'nanocardboard' flyers could serve as Martian atmospheric probes
Engineers are suggesting a new way to explore the sky: tiny aircraft that weigh about as much as a fruit fly and have no moving parts. These flyers are plates...
Tiny sensors fit 30,000 to a penny, transmit data from living tissue
Researchers who build nanoscale electronics have developed microsensors so tiny, they can fit 30,000 on one side of a penny. They are equipped with an integrated circuit, solar cells and...
Electronic Skin Fully Powered by Sweat Can Monitor Health, Serve as Human-Machine Interface
One of the ways we experience the world around us is through our skin. From sensing temperature and pressure to pleasure or pain, the many nerve endings in our skin...
First Ten Years of the LHC: The Adventure Continues
After ten years in operation, the CERN particle accelerator located on the border between France and Switzerland has reshaped the physics of elementary particles. It will restart in 2021 with...
New application of machine learning and image analysis to help distinguish a rare subtype of kidney cancer
Despite significant obstacles presented by COVID-19, Regenstrief Institute Affiliated Scientist Jie Zhang, PhD, Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist Kun Huang, PhD, both Indiana University School of Medicine faculty members, and Jun...
New design could make fiber communications more energy efficient
Researchers say a new discovery on a U.S. Army project for optoelectronic devices could help make optical fiber communications more energy efficient.
Johns Hopkins Expands Research Into Eliminating Stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction
The U.S. Department of Defense has selected Johns Hopkins University to lead an alliance of major research institutions in an effort to understand, predict, and control the behavior of materials...
Extreme interest in crowdsourced projects requires more traditional management
Collaborative crowdsourcing has become a popular way to advance a technology idea or to spin it off for new uses, but University of Michigan research shows when faced with extreme...
Researchers identify cells likely targeted by Covid-19 virus
Researchers at MIT; the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard; and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; along with colleagues from around the world have identified specific types...
Spider combs tame unruly nanofibers
Cribellate spiders spin thousands of tiny nanofibers into sticky threads. To keep from getting caught in their own webs, these spiders use a nonstick comb on their back legs. Now,...
Utilizing the impact resistance of the world's hardest concrete for disaster prevention
Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world and consequently is being continuously developed to fulfill modern-day requirements. Efforts to improve concrete strength have led to reports...
Scientists devise method for gentle laser processing of perovskites at nanoscale
Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in partnership with colleagues from ITMO University, and universities in Germany, Japan, and Australia, have developed a method for precise, fast and high-quality...
A new way to cool down electronic devices, recover waste heat
Using electronic devices for too long can cause them to overheat, which might slow them down, damage their components or even make them explode or catch fire. Now, researchers reporting...
A material with a particular twist: 2-D molybdenum diselenide crystal
In a material made of two thin crystal layers that are slightly twisted with respect to each other, researchers at ETH have studied the behavior of strongly interacting electrons. Doing...
Researchers use electrostatic charge to assemble particles into materials mimicking gemstones, salt
Using just electrostatic charge, common microparticles can spontaneously organize themselves into highly ordered crystalline materials—the equivalent of table salt or opals, according to a new study led by New York...
Physicists develop approach to increase performance of solar energy
Experimental condensed matter physicists have developed an approach to circumvent a major loss process that currently limits the efficiency of commercial solar cells.
CRISPR and Spit Might Be Keys to Faster, Cheaper, Easier Tests for the Coronavirus
Mammoth Biosciences and researchers at the University of California, San Francisco are working on a coronavirus test that could run multiple samples at once, with results in 35-40 minutes. Even...
Study looks at reducing desalination technologies’ energy consumption
Despite an emphasis on discovering novel materials to improve the energy efficiency of water desalination, a team of Yale researchers asserts that these efforts show little benefit. The time and...
ATLAS Experiment measures the 'beauty' of the Higgs boson
Two years ago, the Higgs boson was observed decaying to a pair of beauty quarks (H→bb), moving its study from the "discovery era" to the "measurement era." By measuring the...