Sandia Conducts Advanced Test of Secure Transportation Vehicle
A Nuclear Transporter Just Survived Its Final Full-Scale Crash Test A semitrailer carrying mock nuclear weapons has been deliberately hurled into a barrier at Sandia...
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Pilots, flight attendants face higher radiation-linked cancer death risks than other workers
A new study of nearly 13 million U.S. death certificates has identified flight attendants and pilots as the occupations with the highest and second-highest proportions...
From Google to ChatGPT: How Students Now Search for Knowledge
A Quiet Revolution in Physics Learning: Students Are Moving from Google to Generative AI Students across the world appear to be changing the way they...
Trial finds chilled platelets safely expand lifesaving supplies for bleeding patients
University of Pittsburgh physician-scientists have reported results from an adaptive clinical trial suggesting that refrigerated platelets can remain effective for up to 21 days, potentially...
Grasses, Not Just Flowers, Also Help Support Pollinators
Bees may be finding an overlooked source of protein in one of the most ordinary features of the Southeastern landscape: the lawn. A study from...
Scientists Reveal Pyridine Rearrangement Through Nitrogen Transposition
Pyridine is one of chemistry’s most familiar molecular frameworks, yet moving a substituent from one position on its ring to another has remained an unexpectedly...
Quinone-shuttling filaments boost energy production in Gram-positive Bacillota
A new study has revealed that some Gram-positive bacteria may overcome one of the fundamental limitations of their cell architecture by building microscopic filaments capable...
Reusable brain architecture enables flexible cognition in mice and artificial recurrent networks
A new study suggests that the brain may build complex behavior in much the same way engineers build sophisticated machines: by combining reusable components rather...
Protein-Foldamer Building Blocks Enable Self-Assembling Hybrid Architectures
A new molecular design strategy is bringing two traditionally separate worlds of chemistry together: proteins, nature’s highly evolved molecular machines, and foldamers, synthetic molecules engineered...
EU Cement Decarbonization Faces Technological and Policy Uncertainty
Europe’s cement industry is facing a decarbonization challenge that cannot be solved by switching fuels alone. A new study by P. Tautorat, D. Sultani, N....
New Jersey Neonatal Collaborative Reveals Growth Disparities Across Intensive Care Units
Premature infants are born before the final weeks of pregnancy, a period when the body normally undergoes rapid and highly coordinated growth. After birth, their...
Global Cancer Genomics Enabled by Centralized Processing of Frozen Tumor Tissues
Cancer researchers have unveiled a standardized pathology and molecular workflow designed to solve one of the most difficult problems in international genomics: turning frozen tumor...
Miniature Soft Robot Actively Regulates Blood Flow Through Blocked Vessels
Blood clots and narrowed blood vessels create a difficult engineering problem for modern medicine. Even when a treatment reaches the site of an obstruction, weakened...
Engineered macrophages programmed to target bacteria combat infections in immunosuppressed patients
Severe bacterial infections can overwhelm the immune system even when effective antibiotics are available. In advanced disease, macrophages—the immune cells responsible for detecting, engulfing and...
Aggregation-Induced Emission Achieves Ultra-Narrow 13-Nanometer Spectral Bandwidth
For decades, the pursuit of purer colors in organic light-emitting diodes has followed a seemingly straightforward rule: make the molecules as rigid and planar as...