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October 5, 2020

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The same team who re-engineered the plastic-eating enzyme PETase have now created an enzyme 'cocktail' which can digest plastic up to six ...
SPARC is planned to be the first experimental device ever to achieve a 'burning plasma' -- a self-sustaining fusion reaction in which different isotopes of the element ...
Infinitesimally low levels of radiation, such as from incoming cosmic rays, may soon stymie progress in ...
Nearly 40 years of satellite data from Greenland shows that glaciers on the island have shrunk so much that even if global warming were to stop today, the ice sheet would ...
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New Shortcut Enables Faster Creation of Spin Pattern in Magnet

Physicists have discovered a much faster approach to create a pattern of spins in a magnet. This 'shortcut' opens a new chapter in topology research. Interestingly, this discovery also ...

Blocking Vibrations That Remove Heat Could Boost Efficiency of Next-Gen Solar Cells

A study of a solar-energy material with a bright future revealed a way to slow phonons, the waves that transport heat. The discovery could improve novel hot-carrier solar cells, which convert ...

Deep Learning Gives Drug Design a Boost

A computational tool may help pharmaceutical companies expand their ability to investigate the safety of ...

The Best of Both Worlds: A New Take on Metal-Plastic Hybrid 3D Printing

Current 3D printers employ either plastic or metal only, and the conventional method to coat 3D plastic structures with metal is not environment-friendly and yields poor results. Now, scientists have ...

Diagnosing COVID-19 in Just 30 Minutes

Researchers have developed a one-pot diagnostic method for detecting pathogenic RNAs with PCR-level sensitivity. Diagnostic technology for new infectious diseases can be developed within a week to ...

Cyanobacteria as 'Green' Catalysts in Biotechnology

Researchers show how the catalytic activity of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can be significantly increased. This brings biotechnological and thus eco-friendly application a big step ...

New COVID Test Doesn't Use Scarce Reagents, Catches All but the Least Infectious

Scientists have developed an accurate COVID-19 test doesn't use scarce reagents, paving the way for wide testing in both developing countries and industrialized nations like the United States, ...

Searching for the Chemistry of Life

In the search for the chemical origins of life, researchers have found a possible alternative path for the emergence of the characteristic DNA pattern: According to the experiments, the ...

Physicists Build Circuit That Generates Clean, Limitless Power from Graphene

Physicists have successfully generated an electrical current from the atomic motion of graphene, discovering a new source of clean, limitless ...

Research May Curb Economic Losses to Power Plants After Earthquakes

Sitting atop power transformers are bushing systems that play a critical role in supplying communities with electricity. However, these objects are also susceptible to breaking during earthquakes. ...

Tool Helps Clear Biases from Computer Vision

Researchers have developed a tool that flags potential biases in sets of images used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The work is part of a larger effort to remedy and prevent the ...

Sensor Rapidly Detects COVID-19 Infection

Researchers have developed a new type of multiplexed test (a test that combines multiple kinds of data) with a low-cost sensor that may enable the at-home diagnosis of a COVID-19 infection through ...

Chemical Innovation Stabilizes Best-Performing Perovskite Formulation

Researchers have successfully overcome a limiting problem with stabilizing the best-performing formulation of metal-halide perovskite films, a key player in a range of applications, including solar ...

Our Health: New Focus on the Synergy Effect of Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles are valuable and useful in many products, but according to a new study, they can also damage our cells. Researchers are concerned about the effect of lifelong exposure to the human ...

Sensor With 100,000 Times Higher Sensitivity Could Bolster Thermal Imaging

New research developed a new microwave radiation sensor with 100,000 times higher sensitivity than currently available commercial sensors. Researchers said better detection of microwave radiation ...

Tunable Free-Electron X-Ray Radiation from Van Der Waals Materials

The suggested apparatus produces controlled radiation with a narrow spectrum that can be tuned with high resolution, at a relatively low energy investment. The findings are likely to lead to ...

Flexible and Biodegradable Electronic Blood Vessels

Researchers have developed electronic blood vessels that can be actively tuned to address subtle changes in the body after implantation. The blood vessels -- made of a metal-polymer conductor ...

Record-Breaking, Floating Laser Resonator

A new optical resonator has unprecedented in resonance enhancement. A resonator is a device that traps waves and enhances or echoes them by reflecting them from wall to wall in a process called ...

Carbon-Carbon Covalent Bonds Far More Flexible Than Presumed

A research group has successfully demonstrated that carbon-carbon (C-C) covalent bonds expand and contract flexibly in response to light and heat. This unexpected flexibility of C-C bonds could ...

Noble Metal Clusters Can Enhance Performance of Catalysts and Save Resources

Billions of noble metal catalysts are used worldwide for the production of chemicals, energy generation, or cleaning the air. However, the resources required for this purpose are expensive and ...

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