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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Uncovering the magic of metallographic Turing pattern formation

January 19, 2021
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While we have become used to seeing stripes and spots in nature, it still seems amazing to see similarily distinct 'Turing patterns' form on non-biological surfaces. Now, an international research...
Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biotech, Biotechnology, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Solid State Physics
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Megalodon babies were born larger than a man

January 18, 2021
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While 'The Meg' exaggerated its movie magic megalodon, researchers have shown a baby megatooth shark (Otodus megalodo)would have been bigger than you from the day it was born! Data also...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Paleobiology, Physiology, Zoology
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Dire wolves evolved in isolation from gray wolves

January 15, 2021
News
Reality is more interesting than myth, and all Game of Throne fans who fell in love with Lady, Grey Wind, Ghost and the Stark family's direwolf pack can celebrate in...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Paleobiology, Zoology
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Robots might be acquiring empathy and intuition

January 15, 2021
News
"I knew you were going to do that!" Can you predict what your partner is going to do or say? Even after a 25 year marriage, this feat of emotive...
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