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This unassuming material is capable of capturing or releasing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in response to moisture swings.

Pulling carbon dioxide out of the air using moisture

A more efficient way to capture fresh water from the air

Bringing transformative potential to agriculture with a natural technology for ‘dimming’ genes

Staving off coral reef collapse via a new technique

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Trial Signals Major Milestone in Hunt for New TB Drugs

NASA spacesuit model at the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island, NY. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Recycling astronaut urine for energy and drinking water

Ultrathin Alternative to Silicon for Future Electronics

Bioelectric Signals Can Be Used to Detect Early Cancer

An enzyme that could help 700 million people

A new noninvasive approach to deep brain stimulation offers new hope for movement-related brain disorders

A step towards the long-term goal of quantum computing at room temperature

A new method for verification of nuclear weapons reduction

Developmental progression of a yellow fever-carrying mosquito. (Lewis Hun/UCR)

Opening the door to a mosquito-specific insecticide that would not harm beneficial bees or other pollinators

IBM Lab-on-a-Chip Breakthrough Aims to Help Physicians Detect Cancer Before Symptoms Appear

Microelectronics: Automating cancer detection

Maynooth University

Monitoring greenhouse gases

Umea University

New carbon nanotube textiles stronger than current copper films by more than 50 times

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Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Tel Aviv University

San Francisco State University (SFSU)

Ioffe Institute

University of Zilina

Researchers have developed new signal-processing techniques that were used with an optofluidic biosensor chip to detect a mixture of nanobeads across concentrations that varied by eight orders of magnitude. CREDIT Holger Schmidt, ECE Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

An all-purpose biosensor chip moves closer

Cross-sectional TEM images and energy-dispersive x-ray measurements from high-angle annular dark-field scanning TEM for different thin films. (A) Pure HfOx deposited at 400°C. Clear crystallites are visible in the film; red arrows indicate some of the grain boundaries. (B) Pure HfOx deposited at 30°C. While these films are not polycrystalline like pure HfOx deposited at 400°C, neither are they as uniform as the composite films presented in (C). (C) The thin films which resulted in stable electrical performance are amorphous or nanocrystalline. Some pillar-like structures can be discerned, indicated by red arrows. The addition of Ba to the films clearly leads to material uniformity by suppressing crystallization. (D) High-angle annular dark-field scanning TEM (HAADF-STEM), zoomed in on some of the pillars. In addition, darker nanoparticles can be discerned throughout the films; four randomly chosen particles are marked by red circles. (E) HAADF-STEM image to indicate the area scanned for EDX and the elemental distribution of Hf and Ba. (F) Line scan EDX results acquired from the area indicated in (E). The dark areas in the HAADF-STEM image contain more Ba than the brighter ones. The ratio between Ba and Hf in the pillars is about 0.25 to 0.33, consistent with the Rutherford backscattering analysis discussed later. Credit: Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg1946

A new device that processes data in a similar way as the synapses in the human brain

An AI driven emotion recognition tool

The device created by the researchers to complete their redox-inspired electrodialysis method for water purification.

Redox-inspired electrodialysis: The electrified future of clean water?

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has created an app — FeverPhone — that transforms smartphones into thermometers without adding new hardware. To take someone’s temperature, the screen of a smartphone is held to a patient’s forehead. Shown here is lead author Joseph Breda (left), a UW doctoral student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, measuring Richard Li’s temperature.Dennis Wise/University of Washington

Transforming smartphones into thermometers without adding ANY new hardware

Honeybees can make fast and accurate decisions with a brain the size of a sesame seed

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

University of Toledo

Delft University of Technology

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Jülich Research Centre

Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

University of Fribourg

Argonne National Laboratory

Clemson University

RIKEN

Tokyo Denki University

TU Dresden (TUD)

European Space Agency

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)