Poison frog tadpoles can survive (almost) anywhere
From orange juice to sea water, and between the ground and 4-story building A group of researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla and Stanford University...
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Scientists demonstrate promising new approach for treating cystic fibrosis
CHAPEL HILL, NC - UNC School of Medicine scientists led a collaboration of researchers to demonstrate a potentially powerful new strategy for treating cystic fibrosis...
Bruisable artificial skin could help prosthetics, robots sense injuries
Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c04911 When someone bumps their elbow against a wall, they not only feel pain but...
Computers predict people’s tastes in art
New study offers insight into how people make aesthetic judgments Do you like the thick brush strokes and soft color palettes of an impressionist painting...
Harnessing the power of nature through productive microbial consortia in biotechnology
The deliberate control of complex microbiomes is notoriously difficult and current approaches are often guided by simple trial-and-error. The new Horizon 2020 project PROMICON -...
Inducing and tuning spin interactions in layered material
Spin-manipulation permits potential applications in energy-efficient spintronics Magnetic-spin interactions that allow spin-manipulation by electrical control allow potential applications in energy-efficient spintronic devices. An antisymmetric exchange...
A backdoor in mobile phone encryption from the 90s still exists
It is very unlikely that this security gap has been created by accident The encryption algorithm GEA-1 was implemented in mobile phones in the 1990s...
How do we know where things are?
Study looks at how the visual system stabilizes what you see when you move your eyes Our eyes move three times per second. Every time...
Preformed gel particles tested for enhanced oil recovery
A joint paper went out in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering A joint paper went out in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. Petroleum,...
Convergent mechanism of aging discovered
Fundamental signaling pathway is crucial for longevity Several different causes of ageing have been discovered, but the question remains whether there are common underlying mechanisms...
Particles with ‘eyes’ allow a closer look at rotational dynamics
Tokyo, Japan - Colloids--mixtures of particles made from one substance, dispersed in another substance--crop up in numerous areas of everyday life, including cosmetics, food and...
New material could remove respiratory droplets from air
'Every droplet effectively removed from indoor air would eliminate a potential source of transmission' Although plexiglass barriers are seemingly everywhere these days -- between grocery...
Measuring the elimination of plastic particles from the body in mice
Postdoctoral Researcher Outi Keinänen from the University of Helsinki developed a method to radiolabel plastic particles in order to observe their biodistribution on the basis...
Quantum-nonlocality at all speeds
The phenomenon of quantum nonlocality defies our everyday intuition. It shows the strong correlations between several quantum particles some of which change their state instantaneously...
Correlated errors in quantum computers emphasize need for design changes
EMBARGOED UNTIL 11 A.M. ET WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2021 MADISON, Wis. -- Quantum computers could outperform classical computers at many tasks, but only if the...
