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September 21, 2025

Reconfigurable single-shot incoherent optical signal processing system for chirped microwave signal

Credit: ©Science China Press Incoherent photonic generation and processing of microwave signals avoid cumbersome and costly pulsed lasers by using...

Computing with biochemical circuits made easy

Electronic circuits are found in almost everything from smartphones to spacecraft and are useful in a variety of computational problems...

Researchers find insight into the simplest substitution reaction via Walden inversion mechanism

(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) A research term led by Prof. ZHANG Donghui from State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction...

Light-driven reaction converts carbon dioxide into fuel

Credit: Chad Scales DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have developed tiny nanoparticles that help convert carbon dioxide into methane...

Researchers pave the way for ionotronic nanodevices

Credit: Mikko Raskinen / Aalto University Ionotronic devices rely on charge effects based on ions, instead of electrons or in...

New role of cholesterol in regulating brain proteins discovered

A study led by researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) and the Institute of Medical Physics...

PI3K/mTOR inhibitors may be effective against some uterine sarcomas

To interview Frédéric Amant, contact Julia Gunther at [email protected] or 215-446-6896. Bottom Line: The protein P-S6S240 may serve as an...

Oil and gas wastewater spills alter microbes in West Virginia waters

Credit: US Environmental Protection Agency Wastewater from oil and gas operations -- including fracking for shale gas -- at a...

Forests worldwide threatened by drought

Credit: University of Stirling Forests around the world are at risk of death due to widespread drought, University of Stirling...

Neural networks promise sharpest ever images

Credit: K. Schawinski / C. Zhang / ETH Zurich. Telescopes, the workhorse instruments of astronomy, are limited by the size...

New approach to reduce risk of developing type 2 diabetes trialled in Liverpool

An international clinical trial conducted by the University of Liverpool has shown that the drug liraglutide 3.0 mg may reduce...

Average distance to a forest increased by almost 14 percent in the continental US in a decade

Credit: Yang S, Mountrakis G (2017) During the 1990s, in the continental US key connecting forest patches have been lost...

In rare disorder, novel agent stops swelling before it starts

Credit: Mount Sinai Health System An early-stage clinical trial has found that, compared to a placebo, a novel medication significantly...

Organ-on-a-chip mimics heart’s biomechanical properties

Loading video... Credit: Veniamin Sidorov VIIBRE Vanderbilt The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime....

The value of nutrition and exercise, according to a moth

Credit: National Science Foundation Quick! Name the top-performing athletes in the animal kingdom. Cheetah? Try again. Blue whale? Nope. Here's...

New research horizons

Two UC Santa Barbara faculty members -- cryptographer Stefano Tessaro and condensed matter physicist Andrea Young -- have been selected...

Average distance to a forest increased by almost 14% in the continental US in a decade

Credit: Yang S, Mountrakis G (2017) During the 1990s, in the continental US key connecting forest patches have been lost...

How do polar bears respond to climate change, subsistence hunting?

Credit: Kristin Laidre/University of Washington UW's Kristin Laidre awarded Pew marine fellowship to study effects of climate change, subsistence hunting...

Incarceration linked to excess burden of cancer, new study finds

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Feb. 22, 2017 -- People who spend time in jails and prisons are...

Serendipity uncovers borophene’s potential