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Is teleportation possible? Yes, in the quantum world

June 23, 2020
News
Last year scientists confirmed that information could be passed between photons on computer chips even when the photons were not physically linked. Now, according to new research from the University...
Physics & Engineering
Physics, Quantum Physics, Theoretical Physics
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Higher rates of severe COVID-19 in ethnic minorities remain unexplained

June 23, 2020
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Higher rates of severe COVID-19 infections among ethnic minorities are not explained by socioeconomic or behavioural factors, cardiovascular disease risk, or by vitamin D status, according to new research led...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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The many lifetimes of plastics

June 16, 2020
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Infographics strive to give us a sense of how long plastic goods will last in the environment but is this information reliable? Many of us have seen informational posters at...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials
Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Oceanography
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First adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine receives EU approval

June 15, 2020
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The European Commission has now given regulatory approval for the first adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccine to become available across Europe. This new vaccine builds on the well-established technology used in...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Immunology, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical
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Webinar: Accepting animal-free bacterial endotoxin testing

June 15, 2020
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European, US, Japanese and Chinese pharmacopeia will include a synthetic substitute for horseshoe crab blood in their next revisions, despite some initial concerns from US Pharmacopia experts in May. Lonza...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Environment, Haematology, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Marine Biology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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Reactive 3D printing for autonomous shapeshifting materials

June 12, 2020
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Soft robots and biomedical implants that reconfigure themselves upon demand are closer to reality with a new way to print shapeshifting materials. Rafael Verduzco and graduate student Morgan Barnes of...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Engineering, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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Machine learning predicts nanoparticle structure and dynamics

June 12, 2020
News
Researchers at the Nanoscience Center and at the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have demonstrated that new distance-based machine learning methods, developed in the...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Physics, Theoretical Physics
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Magma movements suggest long-term seismic risk for Northern Europe

June 11, 2020
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Scientists have discovered new evidence for active volcanism next door to some of the most densely populated areas of Europe. The study 'crowd-sourced' GPS monitoring data from antennae across western...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology, Geophysics, Tectonics, Volcanology
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Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces

June 11, 2020
News
One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the disease remains alive after someone infected with it coughs or sneezes. Once the droplets...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Medical/Health, Virology
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Widespread facemask use could shrink the ‘R’ number and prevent a second COVID-19 wave

June 10, 2020
News
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus 'reproduction number' under 1.0, and prevents further waves of the virus when combined with lockdowns, a modelling study from the universities of Cambridge...
Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Policy, Virology
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Global alliance for collaborative digital health

June 10, 2020
News
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, today launched a new series of programs to help organisations collaborate on...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biotech, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Dose controlled drug delivery via 3D printed electromagnetic capsule

June 9, 2020
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Doctors could soon be administering an entire course of treatment for life-threatening conditions with a 3D printed capsule controlled by magnetic fields thanks to advances made by University of Sussex...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Health, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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