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| Sensing robot healthcare helpers Posted: 27 Feb 2021 05:32 AM PST Robots that could take on basic healthcare tasks to support the work of doctors and nurses may be the way of the future. Who knows, maybe a medical robot can prescribe your medicine someday? That's the idea behind 3D structural-sensing robots being developed and tested right now. |
| New study highlights importance of context to physical theories Posted: 26 Feb 2021 10:55 AM PST A scientist's research into the geometrical characteristics of a physical theories is highlighted in a new article. A physicist examines what structural property of a theory like quantum mechanics makes it prone to contextuality. |
| Changing the silkworm's diet to spin stronger silk Posted: 26 Feb 2021 07:37 AM PST Researchers have produced cellulose nanofiber (CNF) synthesized silk naturally through a simple tweak to silkworms' diet. Mixing CNF with commercially available food and feeding the silkworms resulted in a stronger and more tensile silk. |
| New sustainable building simulation method points to the future of design Posted: 25 Feb 2021 02:16 PM PST A team has put forth a new framework for injecting as much information as possible into the pre-design and early design phases of a project, potentially saving architects and design teams time and money down the road. |
| Nuclear physicists on hunt for squeezed protons Posted: 25 Feb 2021 01:32 PM PST While protons populate the nucleus of every atom in the universe, sometimes they can be squeezed into a smaller size and slip out of the nucleus for a romp on their own. Observing these squeezed protons may offer unique insights into the particles that build our universe. Now, researchers hunting for these squeezed protons have come up empty-handed, suggesting there's more to the phenomenon than first thought. |
| Scientists induce artificial 'magnetic texture' in graphene Posted: 25 Feb 2021 11:27 AM PST Graphene is not magnetic -- a shortcoming that has stunted its usefulness in spintronics, an emerging field that could rewrite the rules of electronics, leading to more powerful semiconductors and computers. Researchers report an advancement to overcome this obstacle. They describe pairing a magnet with graphene, and inducing what they call 'artificial magnetic texture' in the nonmagnetic wonder material. |
| Light unbound: Data limits could vanish with new optical antennas Posted: 25 Feb 2021 08:34 AM PST Researchers have found a new way to harness properties of light waves that can radically increase the amount of data they carry. The new work throws wide open the amount of information that can be multiplexed, or simultaneously transmitted, by a coherent light source. |
| Biobattery-powered microneedle patch can deliver drugs and procure testing samples Posted: 25 Feb 2021 08:33 AM PST A pain-free, organic and biodegradable drug delivery patch may be on the horizon for home health care patients soon. Researchers have developed a biobattery-powered device capable of both delivering large molecule pharmaceuticals across the skin barrier and extracting interstitial fluid for diagnostic purposes. |
| Weakness is strength for this low-temperature battery Posted: 25 Feb 2021 08:33 AM PST Nanoengineers have discovered new fundamental insights for developing lithium metal batteries that perform well at ultra-low temperatures; mainly, that the weaker the electrolyte holds on to lithium ions, the better. By using such a weakly binding electrolyte, the researchers developed a lithium metal battery that can be repeatedly recharged at temperatures as low as -60 degrees Celsius. |
| New insights into the mechanism of nuclear fission Posted: 25 Feb 2021 08:33 AM PST Scientists are aiming to clarify the way the angular momentum (spin) of two fragments, resulting from the splitting of an atomic nucleus, is generated. |
| Dentists' tool boost as engineers get to root of tiny bubbles Posted: 25 Feb 2021 08:33 AM PST People's teeth-chattering experiences in the dentist's chair could be improved by fresh insights into how tiny, powerful bubbles are formed by ultra-fast vibrations, a study suggests. |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2021 08:32 AM PST Army researchers used computer simulations to compare the thermal stability of the 1D polymer Kevlar, a 2D polymer called an amide covalent organic framework, and a hypothetical 2D polymer designed by the laboratory called graphamid. |
| Data transfer system connects silicon chips with a hair's-width cable Posted: 24 Feb 2021 11:36 AM PST Researchers developed a data transfer link that's slimmer, more energy efficient, and faster than alternatives like USB or fiber optics. The advance could cut energy budgets at data centers and lighten the load for electronics-rich aircraft. |
| Materials scientists show way to make durable artificial tendons from improved hydrogels Posted: 24 Feb 2021 09:03 AM PST Materials scientists and their colleagues have developed a new method to make synthetic biomaterials that mimic the internal structure, stretchiness, strength and durability of tendons and other biological tissues. |
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