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May 20, 2025
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May 14, 2025 — A new study achieves unprecedented accuracy in modelling extreme cosmic events like black hole and neutron star collisions by calculating the fifth post-Minkowskian (5PM) order, crucial for interpreting gravitational wave data from current and ...
May 8, 2025 — In space, energetic neutrinos are usually paired with energetic gamma rays. Galaxy NGC 1068, however, emits strong neutrinos and weak gamma rays, which presents a puzzle for scientists to solve. A new paper posits that helium nuclei collide with ...
May 8, 2025 — A new study of the 28 most populous U.S. cities finds that all are sinking to one degree or another. The cities include not just those on the coasts, where relative sea level is a concern, but many in the interior. Furthermore, using newly granular ...
May 7, 2025 — Physicists captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the 'free-range' particles that until now were predicted but never directly ...
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May 20, 2025 — A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it ...
May 20, 2025 — Scientists have made a breakthrough in eco-friendly batteries that not only store more energy but could also help tackle greenhouse gas emissions. Lithium-CO2 'breathing' batteries release power ...
May 20, 2025 — The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists have now discovered that in certain ...
May 20, 2025 — Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell -- without damaging it. Researchers have made this groundbreaking discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, ...
May 20, 2025 — Photovoltaic systems are increasingly being installed not only on roofs but also on open land. This does not always meet with citizens' approval. What is known as agrivoltaics (Agri-PV), however, is ...
May 19, 2025 — The average energy project costs 40% more than expected for construction and takes almost two years longer than planned, finds a new global study. ...
May 19, 2025 — Although glasses exhibit disordered atomic structures, X-ray and neutron scattering reveal a subtle periodicity. Researchers have demonstrated that this hidden periodicity -- referred to as ...
May 19, 2025 — Researchers have developed a novel framework named WildFusion that fuses vision, vibration and touch to enable robots to 'sense' and navigate complex outdoor environments much like humans ...
May 19, 2025 — A research team has developed a novel haptic device designed to enhance both safety and efficiency for workers in industrial ...
May 19, 2025 — A team of chemists has made significant strides in the field of mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs). Their work showcases the development of a compact catenane with tuneable mechanical ...
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May 19, 2025 — A new discovery could mean more donor hearts are available for heart transplant, giving more people a second chance at ...
May 19, 2025 — Underwater or aerial vehicles with dimples like golf balls could be more efficient and maneuverable, a new prototype has ...
May 19, 2025 — An unprecedented international effort to decode how cells manage the transport of chemical substances has culminated in four groundbreaking studies This decade-long project provides the first ...
May 19, 2025 — A team was able to show that swimming movements are possible even without a central control unit. This not only explains the behavior of microorganisms, it could also enable nanobots to move in a ...
May 19, 2025 — A new AI chip works without the cloud server or internet connections needed by existing chips. The AI Pro, designed by Prof Hussam Amrouch, is modelled on the human brain. Its innovative neuromorphic ...
May 19, 2025 — If you've ever watched a flock of birds move in perfect unison or seen ripples travel across a pond, you've witnessed nature's remarkable ability to coordinate motion. Recently, a team ...
May 16, 2025 — Newly discovered weapons of bacterial self-defense take different approaches to achieving the same goal: preventing a virus from spreading through the bacterial ...
May 16, 2025 — Millions of years of evolution have enabled some marine animals to grow complex protective shells composed of multiple layers that work together to dissipate physical stress. In a new study, ...
May 16, 2025 — New research details how infrared thermography, high-definition imaging and neural network analysis can combine to make concrete bridge inspections more efficient. Researchers are hopeful that their ...
May 16, 2025 — Janus heterobilayers -- dual-sided materials with unique properties -- may be the key to efficiently creating clean hydrogen ...
May 16, 2025 — Researchers have designed a high-performance, open-access continuous flow process to safely produce key antibacterial drugs from bio-based ...
May 16, 2025 — Investigators are developing a new type of auditory brainstem implant that is designed to be soft, and flexible and address limitations of models currently in use. These implants may one day benefit ...
May 16, 2025 — Molecules like DNA are capable of storing large amounts of data without requiring an energy source, but accessing this molecular data is expensive and time consuming. Researchers have now developed ...
May 15, 2025 — A new gene editor may soon open the door to gene therapies for a wider array of ...
May 15, 2025 — A new study explores how EOS transmits ultrashort laser pulses through crystals that change in response to an applied electric field. This technique allows researchers to accurately capture the shape ...
May 15, 2025 — Whether bismuth is part of a class of materials highly suitable for quantum computing and spintronics was a long-standing issue. Research has now revealed that the true nature of bismuth was masked ...
May 15, 2025 — In Project Chimera, a game lab combines a VR computer game with educational problems in order to convey scientific content in a motivating ...
May 15, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the mechanism for supercurrent rectification, in which current flows primarily in one direction in a superconductor. By using a specific iron-based superconductor, they ...
May 15, 2025 — Charge transfer, or the movement of electrons, can occur either within a molecule or between two molecules. Combining the two types of charge transfer is challenging. Now, scientists have developed a ...
May 15, 2025 — A research team has unveiled a breakthrough in improving the performance of zinc-air batteries (ZABs), which are an important energy storage technology. This breakthrough involves a new catalyst that ...
Monday, May 19, 2025
- More Donor Hearts by Extending the Preservation Time
- Nimble Dimples: Agile Underwater Vehicles Inspired by Golf Balls
- A First Blueprint of Chemical Transport Pathways in Human Cells
- How to Swim Without a Brain
- AI Chip Developed for Decentralized Use Without the Cloud
- Invisible Currents at the Edge: Research Team Shows How Magnetic Particles Reveal a Hidden Rule of Nature
Friday, May 16, 2025
- Researchers Find CRISPR Is Capable of Even More Than We Thought
- Individual Layers of Synthetic Materials Can Collaborate for Greater Impact
- UCF's 'bridge Doctor' Combines Imaging, Neural Network to Efficiently Evaluate Concrete Bridges' Safety
- Designing the Future of Clean Energy: Janus Heterobilayers Lead the Way
- Hazardous Reactions Made Safer Through Flow Technology
- New Auditory Brainstem Implant Shows Early Promise
- Log in to Your Computer With a Secret Message Encoded in a Molecule
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- New Gene Editor Enables Greater Precision
- New Insights Into Quantum Physics
- Bismuth's Mask Uncovered: Implications for Quantum Computing and Spintronics Materials
- Learning as an Adventure: The Lecture Theater in the Spaceship
- Resistance Is Futile: Superconducting Diodes Are the Future
- A Novel Hybrid Charge Transfer Crystal With Reversible Color-Changing Property
- New Dual-Atom Catalyst Boosts Performance of Zinc-Air Batteries for Real-World Applications
- Researchers Develop New Metallic Materials Using Data-Driven Frameworks and Explainable AI
- Research Reveals Why Next-Generation Engine Noise Grinds Our Gears
- Focused Ultrasound Halts Growth of Debilitating Brain Lesions
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Successful Experiments at GSI/FAIR Uncover New Island of Asymmetric Fission
- Drinking Water, Select Foods Linked to PFAS in California Adults
- Superconductors: Amazingly Orderly Disorder
- Professor Challenges Long-Held Assumptions of Symmetry in Physics
- Engineers Tackle Sunlight Intermittency in Solar Desalination
- Following the Folds -- With Quantum Technology
- Satellite Data from Ship Captures Landslide-Generated Tsunami
- New Nanoparticle Could Make Cancer Treatment Safer, More Effective
- Energy and Memory: A New Neural Network Paradigm
- Handy Octopus Robot Can Adapt to Its Surroundings
- 'Sweet Spot' For Focused Ultrasound to Provide Essential Tremor Relief
- MRI Scans Could Help Detect Life-Threatening Heart Disease
- Digital Lab for Data And Robot-Driven Materials Science
- Got Data? Breastfeeding Device Measures Babies' Milk Intake in Real Time
- New Hope Against Superbugs: Promising Antibiotic Candidate Discovered
- Sugar-Coated Nanotherapy Dramatically Improves Neuron Survival in Alzheimer's Model
- Uncovering Compounds That Tame the Heat of Chili Peppers
- Making Connections: A Three-Dimensional Visualization of Musculoskeletal Development
- Protons on the Move
- New Catalyst Boosts Efficiency of CO2 Conversion
- Understanding Carbon Traps
- Researchers Discover a More Eco-Friendly Approach to Study Light and Matter Interaction -- Could Revolutionize Development of Emerging Technologies
- New Study Offers Insights Into Designing Safe, Effective Nasal Vaccines
- New Generation of Skin Substitutes Give Hope to Severe Burns Patients
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Eldercare Robot Helps People Sit and Stand, and Catches Them If They Fall
- Enzymes from Scratch
- Researchers Demonstrate 3-D Printing Technology to Improve Comfort, Durability of 'smart Wearables'
- Researchers Develop Living Material from Fungi
- Remote Particle Measurement Via Quantum Entanglement
- Scientists Define the Ingredients for Finding Natural Clean Hydrogen
- Robotic Hand Moves Objects With Human-Like Grasp
- New Computer Language Helps Spot Hidden Pollutants
Monday, May 12, 2025
- Submarine Robot Catches an Underwater Wave
- Study Uncovers Mystery of How Mini Sand Dunes Form
- Astrophysicist Searches for Ripples in Space and Time in New Way
- Helping Birds and Floating Solar Energy Coexist
- Tapping a New Toolbox, Engineers Buck Tradition in New High-Performing Heat Exchanger
Friday, May 9, 2025
- Ultrasound Unlocks a Safer, Greener Way to Make Hydrogels
- World Record for Lithium-Ion Conductors
- Scientists Innovate Mid-Infrared Photodetectors for Exoplanet Detection, Expanding Applications to Environmental and Medical Fields
- Satellite Measures CO2 and NO2 Simultaneously from Power Plant Emissions for the First Time
- Amuse, a Songwriting AI-Collaborator to Help Create Music
- Self-Assembly of a Large Metal-Peptide Capsid Nanostructure Through Geometric Control
- Bringing Superconducting Nanostructures to 3D
- Machine Learning Powers New Approach to Detecting Soil Contaminants
- Green Fabrication of Hybrid Materials as Highly Sensitive X-Ray Detectors
- Stability Solution Brings Unique Form of Carbon Closer to Practical Application
- A Small Bicycle Handlebar Sensor Can Help Map a Region's Riskiest Bike Routes
- Urine, Not Water for Efficient Production of Green Hydrogen
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- 3D Printing in Vivo Using Sound
- Ping Pong Bot Returns Shots With High-Speed Precision
- Removing Selenium from Water Takes Iron Strength
- Mercury Levels in the Atmosphere Have Decreased Throughout the 21st Century
- Researchers Develop Practical Solution to Reduce Emissions and Improve Air Quality from Brick Manufacturing in Bangladesh
- Bacteria: Recording Gene Activity More Efficiently
- One Glass, Full Color: Sub-Millimeter Waveguide Shrinks AR Glasses
- How to Reduce Global CO2 Emissions from Industry
- Turning Non-Magnetic Materials Magnetic With Atomically Thin Films
- Robotic Dog Mimics Mammals for Superior Mobility on Land and in Water
- Advancing Electrocatalyst Discovery Through the Lens of Data Science
- Scottish Shrimp Study Illuminates New Potential for Bait-Less Fishing
- New Microscope Reveals Heat Flow in Materials for Green Energy
- Eco-Friendly Aquatic Robot Is Made from Fish Food
- Engineering an Antibody Against Flu With Sticky Staying Power
- New Chip Uses AI to Shrink Large Language Models' Energy Footprint by 50%
- MRI Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Diagnosis of Common Heart Problem Aortic Stenosis
- Tiny Vibrations Have a Massive Impact: Transmitting Clear Signals Over Long Distances Using Nonlinear Math
- 'Universe's Awkward Handshake' -- Simplifying Information Processing Using Photons a Quantum Breakthrough
- Harnessing Protein Power to Deliver Medicine
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- Social Media Platform Tailoring Could Support More Fulfilling Use, Study Finds
- New Discovery Shows How Molecules Can Mute Heat Like Music
- Feat of 'dung-Gineering' Turns Cow Manure Into One of World's Most Used Materials
- A Pipette That Can Activate Individual Neurons
- Transforming Hospital Sanitation: Autonomous Robots for Wiping and UV-C Disinfection
- Groundbreaking Device Instantly Detects Dangerous Street Drugs, Offering Hope for Harm Reduction
- Viruses Under the Super Microscope: How Influenza Viruses Communicate With Cells
- Is Virtual-Only Couture the New Clothing Craze?