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Galactic fountain

November 27, 2018
An international team of scientists has observed plumes of cold molecular gas sprayed out by a black hole a billion light-years from Earth. The team say this is the first...

AI could reduce gadolinium dose in MRI

November 26, 2018
AI is being used to reduce the dose of a contrast agent that is often left in the body after an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam.A team at Stanford University...

Enzyme activity enhanced by remote control

November 26, 2018
Radio frequency radiation has been used as a way to enhance the activity of enzymes.Scientists at ITMO University in Saint Petersburg synthesised a special complex in which an enzyme is...

Squeezed nitrogen reveals surprising crystal

November 26, 2018
An unusually complex form of one of the most abundant chemical elements on Earth has been revealed in the lab for the first time.Researchers from the University of Edinburgh created...

Molecular motor powered by light alone

November 23, 2018
Chemists have developed the first molecular motor that can be powered by just light, irrespective of temperature.Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet’s Henry Dube and student Aaron Gerwien developed the motor, or chemical carousel, which...

UK spin-out licenses CRISPR

November 23, 2018
University of Cambridge spin-out DefiniGEN has licensed CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the USA, to develop human cell disease models.The technology will be combined...

Bacterial toxic bullet kills competitors

November 23, 2018
Microbiologists have discovered a toxin that allows an infectious strain of bacteria to defeat its competitors.  The new bullet-like toxin, discovered by Imperial College London scientists, is produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa,...

Neutrino CT scan

November 23, 2018
Researchers from Spain published the first CT of the Earth using neutrinos. This elementary particle, one of the most abundant in the Universe, is able to cross the planet without...

Currents cross virtual outer-space in transistor air gap

November 21, 2018
Researchers have developed a transistor that sends electrical currents through narrow air gaps instead of through silicon.  The proof-of-concept, developed by a team at RMIT University in Australia, recreates a virtual...

Flexible charge-storage developed for clothing

November 21, 2018
Materials scientists from the US have developed a method for making a charge-storing system that is easily integrated into clothing.A major factor holding back development of wearable biosensors for health...

Metal enzymes

November 20, 2018
An international team of researchers has transferred certain structural characteristics of natural enzymes, which ensure particularly high catalytic activity, to metallic nanoparticles. The chemical reactions took place within channels inside...

Joint spin-out creates holey water

November 20, 2018
The University of Liverpool and Queen’s University Belfast have jointly created a spin-out company to develop a new class of materials known as porous liquids.The material is a new class...

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