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April 22, 2026

Tumor blood vessel detection by a gripping force feedback system

Credit: Kanazawa University Background During neuroendoscopic surgery of, for example, brain tumors, the characteristics of the operating space, usually narrower...

Could water solve the renewable energy storage challenge?

Credit: IIASA Seasonal pumped hydropower storage (SPHS), an already established yet infrequently used technology, could be an affordable and sustainable...

Breakthrough in coronavirus research results in new map to support vaccine design

Credit: Vivian Abagiu/Univ. of Texas at Austin Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the National Institutes of...

New 3D chirality discovered and synthetically assembled

Credit: ©Science China Press The origin of lives of human beings, animals and plants on earth is attributed to chirality...

Stressed corals set up progeny for a better life

A salary in exchange for our data, new economic system proposed by a researcher from IMDEA Networks

The scientific journal IEEE Internet Computing, one of the most important in the sector, publishes Nikolaos Laoutaris' latest research proposal...

A spookily good sensor

A sensor using quantum entanglement can determine if a single magnetic excitation is present in a millimeter-sized sphere. This moves...

Tricky reaction sequence gets a major boost from a flow setup and statistics

Researchers from Osaka University optimize a complicated domino reaction in a flow system via machine learning to efficiently screen multiple...

From obesity to liver cancer: Can we prevent the worst?

By identifying the role of a specific protein in the development of obesity-related liver diseases, UNIGE researchers pave the way...

Neighborhood features and one’s genetic makeup interact to affect cognitive function

FAU study first to examine how neighborhood environment affects cognition based on one's genetic risk for Alzheimer's, dementiaCredit: Florida Atlantic...

Prenatal phthalate exposure associated with autistic traits in young boys

UMass Amherst study found folic acid supplementation in early pregnancy protected against chemicals' effectsCredit: UMass Amherst Exposure in the womb...

Sweet beaks: What Galapagos finches and marine bacteria have in common

Closely related, abundant clades of marine Polaribacter avoid competition during spring algae blooms via distinct sugar dietsCredit: Max Planck Institute...

Time-resolved measurement in a memory device

Credit: IMEC At the Department for Materials of the ETH in Zurich, Pietro Gambardella and his collaborators investigate tomorrow's memory...

Count me out of counting seeds

Credit: Matthew Bertucci One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Over and over and over. That's the...

Mixed-signal hardware security thwarts powerful electromagnetic attacks

Purdue innovators are at Silicon Valley's premier chip-design conference to unveil technology that is 100 times more resilient to electromagnetic...

Rice boosts ‘internet of things’ security — again

Engineers' custom circuits would make systems 14,000 times harder to crack than current techCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb....

Improving the electrical and mechanical properties of carbon-nanotube-based fibers

Researchers recently developed a technique that can be used to build carbon-nanotube-based fibers by creating chemical crosslinks; the technique improves...

IU researcher makes skin cancer discovery

Scientist identifies new areas in human genomes linked to riskCredit: IU School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana University cancer...

Chemists use mass spectrometry tools to determine age of fingerprints

Credit: Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Fingerprints are telling us more and more about the people...

Why Zika virus caused most harmful brain damage to Brazilian newborns