New sensor enables ‘smart diapers,’ range of other health monitors
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Waaahhh! While babies have a natural mechanism for alerting their parents that they need a diaper change, a new sensor developed...
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Illinois Tech assistant professor publishes paper in Science on novel chemistry behind ultra-high power density batteries
CHICAGO—February 2, 2023—Mohammad Asadi, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, has published a paper in the journal Science describing the chemistry behind his novel...
Decades-old crustaceans coaxed from lake mud give up genetic secrets revealing evolution in action
Human actions are changing the environment at an unprecedented rate. Plant and animal populations must try to keep up with these human-accelerated changes, often by...
Study offers new approach to conduct large-scale protection assessments of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
A new study offers a science-based method to assess marine protected areas (MPAs) protection levels when information on regulated human activities is limited. The study,...
New ice is like a snapshot of liquid water
A collaboration between scientists at Cambridge and UCL has led to the discovery of a new form of ice that more closely resembles liquid water...
Discovery of new ice may change understanding of water
Researchers at UCL and the University of Cambridge have discovered a new type of ice that more closely resembles liquid water than any other known...
Gail Frayne appointed Jefferson Lab chief financial officer
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has appointed Gail Frayne as its new Chief Financial Officer....
Metalloradical catalysis guides new cobalt-based system that exploits unique features of homolytic radical reaction
Chestnut Hill, Mass (2/2/2023) – A team of Boston College researchers has demonstrated an unprecedented catalytic approach that enables concurrent control of multiple convergences and...
Researchers use lead recycled from car batteries to make photodetectors
WASHINGTON — As lithium-ion batteries continue to decrease in price, they are quickly replacing the lead-acid batteries traditionally used in cars and other vehicles. This...
HKUST breakthrough identifies rare tumor cell “spies”
Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) developed a novel technology which allows genomic DNA and RNA sequencing to be carried...
The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Susan Alberts, Jeanne Altmann and Marlene Zuk for establishing the key role of social behavior in animal evolution and its importance for species conservation
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology has gone in this fifteenth edition to Susan Alberts, Jeanne Altmann and Marlene...
Preparing Europe for the next pandemic: Building the European Health Union
Sandra Gallina, Director-General of the of the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety , notes in her editorial that the EU Health Security Framework was...
Unconventional superconductivity found in kagome metal
Physicists using advanced muon spin spectroscopy at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI make the missing link between their recent breakthrough in a kagome metal and unconventional...
The first lab-created “quantum abacus”
Do you want to know whether a very large integer is a prime number or not? Or if it is a 'lucky number'? A new...
Major research project studies what it looks like when HIV and coronavirus proteins bind to medications
The way in which molecules interact forms the basis of life and treating illness. But what does it look like when a viral protein meets...
