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Hannover Messe: Elastocaloric cooling – Refrigerator cools by flexing artificial muscles
There is room for just one small bottle in the world’s first refrigerator that is cooled with artificial muscles made...
Wound treatment gel fights the battle against antibacterial resistance
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2024 – Hydrogels are popular for use in skin ailments and tissue engineering. These polymer-based biocompatible materials...
The 2024 Career Optimism Index® study highlights shift from the great resignation to a great talent stagnation – and how employers can break through
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100 kilometers of quantum-encrypted transfer
Researchers at DTU have successfully distributed a quantum-secure key using a method called Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution (CV QKD)....
Noted UCLA neurologist Dr. Rhonda Voskuhl wins 2024 John Dystel Prize for multiple sclerosis research
– Rhonda Voskuhl, M.D., an internationally recognized neurologist and investigator at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the winner...
From lab to legislation: How research shapes health policies in Latin America
A study reveals significant insights into the influence of health education and literacy research on policy-making across Latin America and...
How and why animals can live alongside humans
“For animals, living alongside humans is ‘risky business’. But some species, like grackles, are clearly coping better in human-dominated environments,...
Tourism planning as a social practice in times of change and uncertainty: views from a troubled Latin American country
Given the limited capabilities within the public sector, tourism planning consultants play a crucial role in public policy efforts in...
A hybrid data driven framework considering feature extraction for battery state of health estimation and remaining useful life prediction
A paper proposing a hybrid data driven framework considering feature extraction for battery state of health estimation and remaining useful...
Intergenerational altruism and climate policy support
Investments in mitigating climate change in many cases benefit future generations more than those alive today. However, initial costs must...
New materials discovered for safe, high-performance solid-state lithium-ion batteries
All-solid-state lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries with solid electrolytes are non-flammable and have higher energy density and transference numbers than those with...
Dilling named associate laboratory director for neutron sciences at ORNL
Jens Dilling has been named associate laboratory director for the Neutron Sciences Directorate, or NScD, at the Department of Energy’s...
Rice’s Mark Torres wins NSF CAREER Award to examine river water chemistry
Mark Torres, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University, has won a National Science Foundation (NSF)...
We’ve had bird evolution all wrong
An enormous meteor spelled doom for most dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But not all. In the aftermath of the...
A new family tree revises our understanding of bird evolution
Birds are the only dinosaur lineage that survived until today. About 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary,...
Golfers’ risk from pesticides used on turfgrass is likely low, studies find
For many, spring heralds fresh air and exercise on the golf course. But do players risk exposure to unsafe levels...
USTC periodizes virology development
A research team led by Associate Professor LIU Huan from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of...
Reinventing computer vision to mimic human vision
As computer vision (CV) systems become increasingly power and memory intensive, they become unsuitable for high-speed and resource deficit edge...
Mosquito detectives track malaria’s history
A group of researchers is calling on colleagues around the world to join them in what they call “pathogen prospecting”...
Ancient Adélie penguin DNA reveals that small repeats persist for hundreds of millions of years
Microsatellites are valuable tools for studying inheritance, genetic diversity, and population dynamics across a wide range of organisms including bacteria,...
