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Six-time Pro Bowl DT Gerald McCoy to join Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys have agreed to sign free agent defensive tackle Gerald McCoy.
Semiconductors can behave like metals and even like superconductors
The crystal structure at the surface of semiconductor materials can make them behave like metals and even like superconductors, a research team has shown. The discovery potentially opens the door...
Physicists propose new filter for blocking high-pitched sounds
Need to reduce high-pitched noises? Science may have an answer. Theoretical physicists report that materials made from tapered chains of spherical beads could help dampen sounds that lie at the...
New method to create 'membraneless compartments' lends insight into cellular processes
A new method allows the creation of compartments within a liquid that do not have physical barriers. The method could help researchers understand how human cells use 'membraneless compartments' to...
How one L.A. restaurant faces its coronavirus shutdown: to-do lists and shared info
The morning after Mayor Garcetti closes all dining rooms, things look a lot different at this Melrose restaurant.
COVID-19 spread is fueled by 'stealth transmission'
Cases of COVID-19 that fly under the radar — without being diagnosed — appear to fuel the rapid spread of the disease.
New method to create 'membraneless compartments' lends insight into cellular processes
A new laboratory method allows researchers to create compartments within a liquid that, like drops of oil in water, are separate but have no physical barrier between them. The method...
Medical breakthroughs turned into gorgeous images
Calling the Shots (Morteza Sarmadi, Christina Ta, Robert Langer, Ana Jaklenec/Koch Institute at MIT/)Medical images are crucial to saving lives. Health care experts use X-rays, ultrasounds, and more to uncover secret maladies and...
AVP Huntington Beach Open postponed until October due to coronavirus
Coronavirus concerns prompt the AVP to postpone the Huntington Beach Open beach volleyball tournament, originally scheduled for May, until October.
Navy awards nearly $320M to Pratt & Whitney to produce F-35 engines
The U.S. Navy has awarded United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney a nearly $320 million contract modification to produce 32 propulsion systems for the F-35 fighter planes for the Navy, Air...
AI-powered shoes unlock the secrets of your sole
Researchers have developed an AI-powered, smart insole that instantly turns any shoe into a portable gait-analysis laboratory.
Engineered Botulinum toxin is more potent and safer in mice
Botulinum toxin (BoNT) is used for a range of applications, but when injected it can diffuse into the surrounding tissue and give rise to adverse effects. A new study shows...
From hope to heartache at Trader Joe's for seniors looking for a break amid coronavirus panic buying
Julie Carol was in good spirits Tuesday morning as she approached the front of Trader Joe's in Monrovia.
Artificial intelligence helps prevent disruptions in fusion devices
An international team of scientists led by a graduate student at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has demonstrated the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI),...
French Open postponed until September because of coronavirus pandemic
The French Open, originally scheduled to start in May, has been pushed back until September because of the coronavirus pandemic.
New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces
New research finds that the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces. Scientists found that severe acute respiratory...
Modeling clay you can sculpt at home
See what you can sculpt. (Depositphotos /)You don’t need a ceramics wheel class to start creating with clay. Grab a set of air-dry or polymer clay and start sculpting little toys or...
Predicting reaction results: Machines learn chemistry
In the production of chemical compounds, the success of each individual reaction depends on numerous parameters. It is not always possible, even for experienced chemists, to predict whether a reaction...
Predicting reaction results: Machines learn chemistry
Everyday life without artificial intelligence is barely conceivable in today's world. Countless applications in areas such as autonomous driving, foreign language translation or medical diagnostics have found their way into...
Long-distance fiber link poised to create powerful networks of optical clocks
An academic-industrial team in Japan has connected three laboratories in a 100-kilometer region with an optical telecommunications fiber network stable enough to remotely interrogate optical atomic clocks. This type of...
Vaping devices may interfere with pacemakers, defibrillators
The magnets in vaping devices might be able to wreak havoc on heart pacemakers and defibrillators, a new case report suggests.
Fast reconnection in turbulent media
Solar flares, similar to many other astrophysical energetic processes, are related to magnetic reconnection. During these events magnetic energy is transferred from other forms of energy, mostly heat and energetic...
Biophysicists blend incompatible components in one nanofiber
Russian researchers from the Federal Research Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and Lomonosov Moscow State University showed the possibility of blending two incompatible...
Promising material shows new evidence of unconventional superconductivity
In recent years, the search for non-trivial topological materials has become a hot topic in condensed matter physics. Since Hor et al, first reported the discovery of superconductivity in Cu...
Researchers compare cadmium phytoextraction ability of several plants
Remediation of soil contaminated by heavy metals has become a hot topic in the world, and phytoremediation technology is the most widely used. Compared with physical and chemical remediation, phytoremediation...
Semiconductors can behave like metals and even like superconductors
The crystal structure at the surface of semiconductor materials can make them behave like metals and even like superconductors, a joint Swansea/Rostock research team has shown. The discovery potentially opens...
Machine learning to scale up the quantum computer
,,Quantum computers are expected to offer tremendous computational power for complex problems –currently intractable even on supercomputers—in the areas of drug design, data science, astronomy and materials chemistry among others.
Efficient perovskite solar cells developed by reducing interface-mediated recombination
Passivation is an effective method to reduce defects and inhibit non-radiative recombination. Organic amine salts such as phenethylamine iodide (PEAI) have been successfully used to passivate the perovskite surface, achieving...