New quantum computing feat is a modern twist on a 150-year-old thought experiment
A team of quantum engineers at UNSW Sydney has developed a method to reset a quantum computer – that is, ...
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‘Transformer’ pinwheels offer new twist on nano-engineered materials
A newly discovered pinwheel structure—self-assembled from pyramid-shaped nanoparticles—may enable unique material properties that could be useful in areas like machine ...
Organizing nanoparticles into pinwheel shapes offers new twist on engineered materials
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —Researchers have developed a new strategy to help build materials with unique optical, magnetic, electronic and catalytic properties. ...
In ironic twist, CRISPR system used to befuddle bacteria
Call it a CRISPR conundrum. Credit: Photo courtesy of Marta Torres, m-CAFEs postdoctoral researcher, Deutschbauer lab, Environmental Genomics and Systems ...
A light twist
Tsukuba, Japan—A scientist from the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Tsukuba developed a method for ...
New, highly tunable composite materials—with a twist
Watch this. Credit: Jacopo Bertolotti Watch this. Watch for the patterns created as the circles move across each other. Those ...
Learning chemical networks give life a chiral twist
When holding a right hand in front of a mirror, one can see a reflected image of a left hand ...
A scaffold with a twist: Cryo-EM reveals the building blocks of poxvirus
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have revealed how poxviruses build their scaffold - ...
SKI Scientists Discover a new twist on an 80-year-old biochemical pathway
Every year, thousands of biochemistry majors and medical students around the world learn to memorize the major biochemical pathways that ...
Strong magnets put new twist on phonons
HOUSTON – (Feb. 15, 2022) – Phonons are collective atomic vibrations, or quasiparticles, that act as the main heat carriers in a crystal lattice. ...
Story tips: For the birds, fresh twist on heat, upcycling plastics and probing for COVID particles
Bioenergy – For the birdsCredit: Chris Lituma/West Virginia University Bioenergy – For the birds An analysis by Oak Ridge National ...
Geophysicists detect electron dance deep inside the Earth, with a Twist
Credit: Grace Shephard Most are aware that electrons are negatively charged particles that surround the nucleus of atoms and whose ...
A new twist on 2D materials may lead to improved electronic, optical devices
A new generation of electronics and optoelectronics may soon be possible by controlling twist angles in a particular type of bilayer 2D material used in these devices, strengthening the intrinsic ...
Light does the twist for quantum computing
Scientists have generated circularly polarized light and controlled its direction without using clunky magnets or very low temperatures. The findings, ...
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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Seawater split to produce green hydrogen
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Mount Sinai launches phase 1 US trial of NDV-HXP-S, an Egg-based investigational COVID-19 vaccine, in healthy adults previously immunized against COVID-19
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Dogs’ average age at cancer diagnosis is associated with size, sex, breed
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Face masks cut distance airborne pathogens could travel in half, new study finds
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Increase in marine heatwaves expected to affect organisms at bottom of food chain, study suggests