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Will our climate bounce back as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown?

May 19, 2020
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Stanford research study envisions energy and environment landscape after COVID-19, pinpointing reduced demand hotspots and estimating impact on annual emissions. Join the webinar on 21 May: ‘Post-Pandemic: Building Back Resiliently’
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Covid-19, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Oceanography
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Orbitronics: the next step for Moore’s Law?

May 18, 2020
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SLAC scientists have broken the link between a quantum material's spin and orbital states, opening a path toward a new generation of logic and memory devices to increase the efficiency...
Physics & Engineering
Engineering, Particle Physics, Physics, Quantum Physics, Solid State Physics, Theoretical Physics
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Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs

May 17, 2020
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Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic environments such as transport hubs to enable improved management to prevent transmission and slow the...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Engineering, Environment, Health, Health & Safety, Immunology, Medical/Health
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Return to work safely: Environmental surface swabbing

May 17, 2020
News
In light of the UK government’s request for employers to enable staff to safely return to work where possible, the imperative for employers to implement upgraded health and safety monitoring...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Health, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Policy
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Rothamsted turn to harvesting coronavirus data

May 12, 2020
News
A group of researchers based at Rothamsted Research, one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, has responded to a request from the White House, Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Higgs Spectroscopy: A new method to measure superconductors

May 12, 2020
News
From sustainable energy to quantum computers: high-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionize today’s technologies. Despite intensive research, however, we still lack the necessary basic understanding to develop these complex...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Engineering, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Physics, Quantum Physics, Solid State Physics
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AI to map impact of COVID-19 on the heart

May 11, 2020
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A joint UK-US research team is applying a pioneering artificial intelligence system to map how the COVID-19 virus attacks the heart with such deadly impact. The collaboration aims to quantify...
Life Sciences
Biology, Biophysics, Covid-19, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Why men are more vulnerable to Covid-19 than women

May 11, 2020
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Evidence from a large study of several thousand patients shows that men have higher concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in their blood than women. Since ACE2 enables the coronavirus...
Life Sciences
Covid-19, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Generating sustained nanolight

May 11, 2020
News
An international research team has discovered an effective method for controlling the frequency of confined light at the nanoscale in the form of phonon polaritons (nanolight; light coupled to vibrations...
Materials
Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology
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WIN: A Tale of Seven Scientists

May 11, 2020
News
And a new philosophy of scienceWritten by Eric Scerri
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Physics, Policy
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‘Open Design’: Printing research hardware to save on capitol costs

May 6, 2020
News
Free and open source hardware (FOSH) is rapidly gaining momentum as part of a global ‘open design movement’ whereby the free release of information on customised research hardware, such as...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Engineering, Materials, Physics, Policy
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Extending the design rules for clean energy production

May 6, 2020
News
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have uncovered the dynamics of electrochemical interfaces at the atomic scale. Their results offer a revolution in the quest...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Engineering, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Physics, Solid State Physics
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