Carbon nanotube tape stays sticky in extreme temperatures
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01629 In very hot or cold environments, conventional tape can lose its stickiness and leave behind an annoying...
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Are doctors treating more thyroid cancer patients than necessary?
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On the way to printable organic light emitting diodes
Researchers are developing an efficient OLED consisting of only one layerCredit: MPI-P Organic light-emitting diodes are components that no longer consist of compounds containing the...
Is elevated systolic blood pressure associated with risk for valvular heart disease?
What The Study Did: A group of 329,237 men and women of white Bristish ancestry with genetic data in the UK Biobank and blood pressure...
Arts & Medicine: Video, articles look back at 1978 novel ‘The House of God’
Bottom Line: The 1978 novel "The House of God" is a fictional account of the internship experience of Samuel Shem, the pen name of Stephen Bergman,...
Yale-developed scorecard promotes better clinical trial data sharing
New Haven, Conn. -- A tool developed by researchers at Yale, Stanford, and Bioethics International can promote greater sharing of clinical trial data by pharmaceutical...
Study examined short-term treatment of internet, computer game addiction
What The Study Did: This randomized clinical trial of 143 men tested a short-term treatment for internet and computer game addiction. Authors: Klaus Wölfling, Ph.D.,...
Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course
The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background 'hum' of gravitational waves from supermassive black holes will be...
How to discover new materials quickly
Material researchCredit: RUB, Marqard An unexplored cosmos of potential materials The number of potential new materials that can be assembled from elements in the periodic...
Mussels are inspiring new technology that could help purify water and clean up oil spills
Mussels are notorious maritime stowaways known for damaging the hulls of boats, but these same adhesive properties have widespread engineering applications, scientists in China and...
Bringing the blockchain into the physical world
A kit made from everyday objects is bringing the blockchain into the physical worldCredit: Irni Khairuddin A kit made from everyday objects is bringing the...
Unravelling the 3-dimensional genomic structure of male germ cells
Credit: UAB A study led by scientists of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the National Centre for Genomic Analysis (CNAG-CRG) from the Centre...
Shared e-cargo bikes: boom and barriers in Basel
Sustainable means of mobility are becoming ever more popular. In Switzerland, around 15,000 people have registered with the online platform carvelo2go, which hires out electric...
Epic research endeavor reveals cause of deadly digestive disease in children
Scientists from Israel and the US pooled their medical and genetic expertise to uncover the origin of an untreatable gastrointestinal conditionCredit: Marco Osterwalder/Berkeley Lab Nearly...
Puzzling on a quantum chessboard
A new model could demonstrate quantum supremacy on hardware already available todayCredit: University of Innsbruck The queen problem is a mathematical task, which already had...
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