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Robotic exoskeleton training expands options for stroke rehabilitation

February 2, 2021
News
It must be hard enough to recover from an acute stroke, but many find the physical taxation of rehabilitation exercises incredibly challenging. Retraining the brain to drive the complex processes...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Developmental Biology, Health, Medical/Health, Neuroscience, Physiology
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Meet the baby tyrannosaurs – dog-sized and looking just like mum and dad

January 29, 2021
News
Imagine mini tyrannosaurs running around your legs like collie dogs! They may have grown to 40 feet as adults, but baby tyrannosaurs looked like their parents when they first hatched...
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Paleobiology, Zoology
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Closed-loop chemical recycling of common petrochemical realised

January 28, 2021
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Imagine plastics and rubber that can be chemically unzipped back to reusable monomers for recycling. In the way of all the most exciting advances, this process of depolymerisation - a...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Engineering, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry
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Antiviral coating kills viruses and bacteria for product lifetime

January 26, 2021
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Can you imagine a world where you wouldn't have to worry about disease transmission from surfaces such as door handles, keyboards, bank notes, and even doctor's gowns and facemasks? Matt...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Covid-19, Engineering, Health, Immunology, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Virology
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Developing multi-functional catalysts with light switches

January 25, 2021
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Researchers were able to observe the atomic-scale features of a catalyst using an environmental transmission electron microscope, enabling them to manipulate and optimise catalytic reactions using light. This technique could...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biotech, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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Not just a droplet: Explaining one dimensional quantum liquid formation

January 22, 2021
News
A new type of quantum droplet - the most dilute liquids ever experimentally observed - helps unravel the mechanism leading to the formation of one dimensional self-bound quantum liquids in...
Physics & Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics, Particle Physics, Physics, Quantum Physics, Theoretical Physics
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Why cells don’t get stuck – generalised cell migration and motility modelled mathematically

January 22, 2021
News
Cell movement has now been mathematically modelled by an interdisciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists. Understanding this fundamental process will allow scientists to predict cell behaviours and improve targeted...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Oncology
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Roll over Indiana Jones – the modern archeologist comes armed with technology

January 21, 2021
News
Looking into the past never looked so futuristic as it does today, and the Indiana Jones-style stereotype - with his muck-ridden, dirt digging, tomb raiding archeology - must make way...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental
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Long-life, long-range, rapid recharging, affordable electric car battery

January 21, 2021
News
Go from zero to 60 miles per hour in 3 seconds and drive like a Porsche... Electric car batteries that can take you 250 miles, take only ten minutes to...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Physics, Solid State Physics
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Ousting spiritualist clairvoyance with scientific clairaudience

January 20, 2021
News
Hearing voices can be a serious business - both for those afflicted and anyone they might choose to draw into their experiences when translating the phenomenon as a connection to...
Life Sciences
Biology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Neuroscience
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Modelling system evolution dynamics for better ecosystem management

January 20, 2021
News
Imagine being able to stop species becoming unexpectedly endangered in the first place... Researchers have demonstrated that ecosystem management can be modelled to highlight potential adjustments to ongoing control strategies...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental
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Laser-triggered chemical adhesion for tissue engineering of replacement organs

January 19, 2021
News
Laser-triggered chemical adhesion used to build proteins onto biological polymer scaffolding to bring artificial but functional, laboratory-grown replacement organs one step closer to a reality. Researchers have found lasers and...
Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Engineering, Health, Life Sciences, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Physiology
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