Polyethylene, a plastic that is both cheap and easy to process, accounts for nearly one-third of the world's plastic waste. An interdisciplinary team from the University of Bayreuth has investigated the progressive degradation of polyethylene in the environment for the first time.

An investigation is underway to determine if the school is linked with a cancer cluster.

Under propofol general anesthesia very slow frequency traveling waves transform and dominate, redirecting and disrupting the higher frequency traveling waves associated with conscious function.

To propel itself higher than any known engineered jumper or animal can, it had to ignore the limits of biology -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

There are five different diseases that attack the language areas in the brain’s left hemisphere that slowly cause

An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days.

Quantum computing holds the potential to be a game-changing future technology in fields ranging from chemistry to cryptography to finance to pharmaceuticals. Compared to conventional computers, scientists suggest that quantum computers could operate many thousand times faster. To harness this power, scientists today are looking at ways to construct quantum computer networks. Fault-tolerant quantum memory, which responds well when hardware or software malfunctions occur, will play an important role in these networks. A research team from Yokohama National University is exploring quantum memory that is resilient against operational or environmental errors.

A robot named Lyra has been used to inspect a ventilation duct in Dounreay’s redundant nuclear laboratories and

The brain is the organ that orchestrates all the diverse functions and complex decisions that take place in biological systems. Despite its critical nature, it is equally as fragile: the neurons that make up the brain do not regenerate like many other cell types.

New research describes how the modulation of the geometry of a helical reactor at a macroscopic level enables controlling the sign of chirality of a process at a nanometric scale, an unprecedented discovery to date in the scientific literature.

Scientists develop a new approach for miniaturization of soft ultra-compact and highly integrated sensor units for directional tactile sensitivity in e-skin systems

NPL scientists, in collaboration with experts in physical chemistry, have unleashed state-of-the-art electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) techniques to understand materials relevant for superconducting quantum circuits, with results published in a recent paper in Science Advances.

A robot called Lyra has been employed to check a ventilation duct in the redundant nuclear laboratories at Dounreay and chart the radioactive materials. Image Credit: The University of Manchester....

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program that is able to properly identify who is likely to get pancreatic cancer depending on what their CT scan results...

Author(s): S. A. Blundell and C. GuetThe authors revisit the theory of strongly correlated excitons confined in semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots, motivated by recent experiments on nanocrystals of all-inorganic cesium lead halide perovskites (e.g., CsPbBr 3 ), which have outstanding optoelectronic properties. Using a variety of k ⋅ p many-body approaches, including many-body perturbation theory, configuration interaction, the Bethe-Salpeter equation, and the random-phase approximation with exchange, they show that the strong correlation arises exclusively from the

Author(s): Xiangyi Cui et al. (PandaX-II Collaboration)A large unexplored region of parameter space has been ruled out for hypothetical sub-GeV dark matter which was boosted in energy from collisions with cosmic rays. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171801] Published Wed Apr 27, 2022

A new approach could make it possible to detect the elusive Unruh effect in hours, rather than billions

Semiconducting nanomaterials with 3D network architectures have large surface areas and lots of pores, making them ideal for adsorption, separation and sensing applications. Moreover, achieving...

Novel technologies to convert sunlight into power and fuels will be enabled by new materials. These materials are made possible by the combination of molecules and nanoparticles. These...

A joint research paper from Chemnitz University of Technology and Shivaji University (India) titled "APTES monolayer coverage on self-assembled magnetic nanospheres for controlled release of anticancer drug Nintedanib" was downloaded 4,458 times last year. This puts the paper among the top most accessed papers in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports.

3E8 Inc, a pioneer in photonic AI compute silicon, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to support its mission to develop the...

JPL photonics inventions improve lasers and oscillators for autonomous vehicles, next-generation communications, and quantum computing Navigating the solar

Diamond nanocrystals, namely nanodiamonds, which host point defects such as nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers, are a promising quantum material.

Why do we like sex? Our brain perceives physical acts as a pleasure, just like abusive behavior, e.g.,

Requirement Engineering (RE) is a Software Engineering (SE) process of defining, documenting, and maintaining the requirements from a problem. It is one of the most complex processes of SE because it addresses the relation between customer and developer. RE learning may be abstract and complex for most students because many of them cannot visualize the subject directly applied. Through the advancement of technology, Virtual Reality (VR) hardware is becoming increasingly more accessible, and it is not rare to use it in education. Little research and systematic studies explain the integration between SE and VR, and even less between RE and VR. Hence, this systematic review proposes to select and present studies that relate the use of VR applications to teach SE and RE concepts. We selected nine studies to include in this review. Despite the lack of articles addressing the topic, the results from this study showed that the use of VR technologies for learning SE is still very seminal. The

Law.comScott Grahamhttps://images.law.com/contrib/content/uploads/sites/401/2021/06/Albright-Alan-2018-10-767x633.jpgElectronics/Technology Media and Telecom/News/COVID-19/Intellectual Property/Patent Litigation/Technology/COVID-19/Intellectual Property/P / Law.comVLSI-Intel Patent Trial Canceled Due to COVID Outbreak - Attorneys on the case had been self-testing daily, and two of them came up positive on Tuesday. Judge Alan Albright postponed the trial until the fall. ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by Cedars-Sinai investigators accurately predicted who would develop pancreatic cancer based on what their CT scan images looked like years prior to being diagnosed with the disease.

Law.comAmanda Bronstadhttps://images.law.com/contrib/content/uploads/sites/403/2022/04/Opiod_Fees-767x633.jpgCases and Courts/Pharmaceuticals/State and Local Government/News/Consumer Protection/Government/Mass Torts/Breaking News/Biotech and Pharmaceuticals / Law.comWe Are Not Purdue. Drugmakers Deny Blame for San Franciscos Opioid Crisis - San Franciscos opioid trial began this week with two days of opening statements. Todays opioid crisis would not have occurred without the paradigm shifts caused by defendants and others in the pharmaceutical industry, said Richard Heimann, a lawyer for San Francisco. ...

Blair Marnell / Digital TrendsNetflix shares first look at pictures from The Gray Man - The Russo Brothers next movie, The Gray Man, is coming to Netflix this summer. And now the streamer has released a first look at the all-star cast. ...

Researchers say they've found a way to significantly increase the probability of observing the Unruh effect, a 'quantum glow' phenomenon that was first proposed in the 1970s.

For "Star Wars" fans, the streaking stars seen from the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon as it jumps to hyperspace is a canonical image. But what would a pilot actually see if she could accelerate in an instant through the vacuum of space? According to a prediction known as the Unruh effect, she would more likely see a warm glow.

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool can accurately predicted who would develop pancreatic cancer based on what their CT scan images looked like years prior to being diagnosed with the disease. The findings may help prevent death through early detection of one of the most challenging cancers to treat.

Nylon cooking bags and plastic-lined cardboard cups are conveniences many people rely on, but a new study in

If we compare the right to the left hand, we can see these are specular images—that is, like symmetrical shapes reflected in a mirror—and they cannot superimpose on each other. This property is chirality, a feature of the matter that plays with the symmetry of biological structures at different scales, from the DNA molecule to the tissues of the heart muscle.

A deposit of nearly pure argon left undisturbed since Earth's formation is about to help physicists understand more about the universe.

The flexible, thin-film device has the potential to make any surface into a low-power, high-quality audio source.

A group of researchers recently published a paper in the journal Scientific Reports that demonstrated the effectiveness of gold nanoparticles synthesized using hydrogels as reducing and capping agents...

Recent research published in the journal Materials Today: Proceedings compares two nanocatalysts for the generation of biodiesel from microalgae, calcium methoxide Ca(OCH3)2 and lithium-ion...

A team of researchers recently published a paper in the journal Materials Today: Proceedings that investigated the effect of different carbon nanotube (CNT) nanofiller concentrations on the impact and...

Arthur Brown / AndroidHeadlines.comYou Can Now Get Unlimited Google Photos Storage With T-Mobile - Are you running out of space on Google Photos? Well, dont fret; not too long ago, news broke that T-Mobile collaborated with Google to give users unlimited Google Photos storage. Now, that plan is finally live, and you can pack on as many photos and videos as you want. You ...

A pre-proof published recently in the journal Carbon investigates shifts in fiber morphologies, particularly inter- and intra-bundle voids, as a result of solution spinning. This thorough...

Author(s): Oladunjoye A. Awoga, Jorge Cayao, and Annica M. Black-SchafferThe emergence of topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states in superconductor nanowire structures relies on a large induced topological gap, usually assumed to require strong coupling between superconductor and nanowire. However, strong coupling also brings detrimental effects such as the need for large critical Zeeman fields and the emergence of trivial zero-energy states. This work demonstrates that the aforementioned problems can be drastically mitigated in the weak-coupling regime, while retaining the robust properties of topological superconductivity including large topological gaps. [Phys. Rev. B 105, 144509] Published Tue Apr 26, 2022

Intel lends its deep learning AI to DiA Imaging’s heart ultrasound analysis tech apark Tue, 04/26/2022 - 11:44

(Jennifer Pattison Tuohy) / The VergeHow to use a Google Nest Hub as a digital picture frame - Display your photos on your Google Nest Hub. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Googles family of Nest Hub smart displays can do a lot of things: control your smart home devices; show you a feed of your video doorbell; play YouTube videos; double as a digital cookbook; ...

Plastic is a petroleum product that is extremely slow to decompose. According to the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, a plastic bag takes 10 to 20 years, a plastic straw 200 years and a plastic bottle 450 years to decompose. During decomposition, these objects are ground into ever-smaller particles over time. These are known as microplastics (particles smaller than 5mm) or nanoplastics (particles smaller than 1,000 nanometers). Nanoplastic particles in particular pose a potential hazard to living organisms, as these can absorb the particles. The particles accumulate in the tissue and there are indications that they can cause chronic inflammation.

Researchers report wood-derived semiconductors that can be tuned for use in a range of sustainable electronic devices.

Semiconducting nanomaterials with 3D network structures have high surface areas and a lot of pores that make them excellent for applications involving adsorbing, separating, and sensing. However, simultaneously controlling the electrical properties and creating useful micro- and macro-scale structures, while achieving excellent functionality and end-use versatility, remains challenging. Now, Osaka University researchers, in collaboration with The University of Tokyo, Kyushu University, and Okayama University, have developed a nanocellulose paper semiconductor that provides both nano−micro−macro trans-scale designability of the 3D structures and wide tunability of the electrical properties. Their findings are published in ACS Nano.

Hollow structured nanomaterials are promising in the fields of adsorption, catalysis, energy storage and drug delivery/controlled release, owing to their high porosity, large surface area and abundant inner void space. Researchers have developed a new strategy to synthesize single-hole hollow carbon nanospheres.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of examining huge volumes of data, such as trial results or images, and identifying patterns frequently unnoticeable by humans, rendering it extremely...

Collective behavior and swarm patterns are found everywhere in nature. Robots can also be programmed to act in swarms. Researchers have developed collectives of microrobots, which they can move in every formation they wish.

Researchers identified a nanobody inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 variants.

Yahoo! Finance: Company NewsThe Future of Activision Blizzard Stock With Microsoft in the Picture - In mid-January, shares ofActivision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) surged when news broke thatMicrosoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) was offering to buy the video game publisher in a $68.7 billion deal. In this episode of The Rank on Motley Fool Live, recorded on April 11, Fool.com contributors Matt Frankel, Jason Hall, and Brian Withers ...

Alexander Maxham / AndroidHeadlines.comAmazon Drops The Shark AV2001 Robot Vacuum To Just $299 - Today, in Amazons Gold Box Deal of the Day, you can pick up the Shark AV2001 Robot Vacuum for just $299. Thats shaving about $130 off of its regular price. Keep in mind that this price is good today only, as it is part of the Gold Box Deal of ...

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Trans men’s eggs have been matured in the lab—and could help them have children Ovaries contain hundreds of thousands of underdeveloped eggs, held in a kind of suspended animation. Each month, one matures…

Nylon cooking bags and plastic-lined cardboard cups are conveniences many people rely on, but a new study in

Diamond is more than a lovely gem, and physicists like it because of its flaws. One of the most promising quantum materials is diamond nanocrystals, specifically, nanodiamonds with point defects such...

Last year, an APTES monolayer covering self-assembled magnetic nanospheres for controlled drug delivery of the anticancer drug, Nintedanib, was downloaded 4,458 times, according to a joint research...

Dotphoton, an industry-leading raw image compression company and Hamamatsu Photonics, a world leader in optical systems and photonics manufacturing, are pleased to announce their new partnership.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy – the amount of disorder – only ever

Researchers have developed a point-of-care, portable, rapid, and cost-effective test for clinical diagnosis of sodium, which uses a paper printed colorimetric sensor that is based on Curcumin-functionalized copper (CuC) nanoparticles. They demonstrate that the proposed CuC paper strip can be used for detecting Na+ concentration within the whole physiological range in both blood serum and urine. Sodium is a vitally important electrolyte present in all body fluids and it plays a crucial role in maintaining normal body function, including nerve and muscle function.

My work is focused on looking at the dynamics of B/T cell populations within lymph nodes from patients that had recovered from COVID-19. My role in this research was developing and implementing microscopy image analysis techniques using methods and instrumentation in part supplied by TissueGnostics.

The day I spoke to Jennifer Doudna was a tough day: the US Patent Office had just ruled against her university on CRISPR’s most important uses, handing the commercial rights to her rivals at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Doudna is the co-discoverer of CRISPR editing, the revolutionary method for engineering genes that,…

V.R. treatments may provide relief similar to intravenous opioids — a tantalizing prospect for the millions of Americans living with chronic pain.

UK startup Touchlab, a deep tech venture in EIT Digital's Innovation Factory roster, has raised £3.5 m (€4.36 m) in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, one of...

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy – the amount of disorder – only ever

Law.comScott Grahamhttps://images.law.com/contrib/content/uploads/sites/401/2021/06/Albright-Alan-2018-10-767x633.jpgElectronics/Technology Media and Telecom/News/Intellectual Property/Patent Litigation/Technology/Intellectual Property/Patent/California/D / Law.comTheyre B-a-a-a-c-k! Irells Chu and Wilmers Lee Square Off for Trial No. 3 of VLSI v. Intel - VLSI won a $2.175 billion verdict the first time around, while Intel secured a defense verdict in the second. This time Wilmers Bill Lee is telling jurors from the outset that VLSI paid only $35 million for a 170-patent portfolio that includes the asserted patent. ...

A new way of using artificial intelligence to predict cancer from patient data without putting personal information at risk has been developed by a team including University of Leeds medical scientists.

Ben Hernandez / ETF TrendsNvidia’s Push for AI Innovation Could Propel This ETF Higher - Companies that invest heavily in their research and development could be harbingers of expansive growth. In particular, artificial intelligence (AI) investment is driving innovation for the next wave of disruptive technology. Chip maker Nvidia is doing just that. Its evolving from its identification as a semiconductor producer and focusing on ...

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Researchers have developed a technique that enables a robot to learn a new pick-and-place task with only a handful of human demonstrations. This could allow a human to reprogram a robot to grasp never-before-seen objects, presented in random poses, in about 15 minutes.

Macy Meyer / CNET NewsLeaked Pixel Watch Images Appear to Show Googles New Smartwatch - CNET - The images line up with previous rumors about the Pixel Watch. ...

Due to its remarkable mechanical and physical properties, cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) have gained prominence in a variety of sectors in recent years. A study published in the journal Materials...

An article published recently in the journal Materials Today: Proceedings sheds light on the fabrication of pliable piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs) made from a combination of polyvinyl fluoride...

A study published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials reports a scalable platform developed by a combination of microtomy and vapor-liquid-solid growth of III/V nanowires (NWs). The platform...

With the growing demand for new applications in tissue regeneration, the functionalization of melt electrowritten scaffolds has gained the attention of researchers in recent years to fulfill the needs...

After being first revealed back at CES, Anker’s latest addition to its stable of chargers is finally available. Enter the new Nano II 100W, a USB-C power adapter centered around the brand’s GaN II charging technology. Sporting a three-port design with an ultra-compact build, it’s 30% smaller than Apple’s comparative wall adapter and is . more… The post Anker’s new Nano II 100W GaN charger is 30% smaller than Apple’s 96W adapter, now available appeared first on 9to5Mac.

In areas where water is scarce, reusing wastewater is one way to increase the supply. But to do that safely, water has to undergo lots of cleaning procedures, including some new innovations using edible materials like okra!

A new way of using artificial intelligence to predict cancer from patient data without putting personal information at risk has been developed. Swarm learning can be used to help computers predict cancer in medical images of patient tissue samples, without releasing the data from hospitals.

An artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform, developed in multi-institutional collaborative research, enhanced the evaluations of providers regarding whether bladder cancer patients had a total...

Nanotechnology is becoming increasingly important in the development of cancer treatments, and clinicians must be able to comprehend it to succeed. Gang Bao. Image Credit: Jeff Fitlow. Rice...

Researchers have developed a technique that enables a robot to learn a new pick-and-place task with only a handful of human demonstrations.

AI predicts lung cancer tumor growth after radiation: NHS study apark Mon, 04/25/2022 - 11:42

Modern sports equipment often appears to be a showcase for new material technologies and nowhere has this been more true than in global sport competitions. Some of the high-tech materials used by athletes in competitive winter sports are using nanomaterials. But, as the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has shown, other areas have benefited from nanotechnologies and nanoscience as well: ice skating, wearable monitoring devices, and even nanomaterial-based Braille printing of Olympic service manuals and spectator guides for vision impaired readers.

Last fall Nanoleaf launched its latest HomeKit smart lights, the modular Lines. They feature an all-new form factor that makes it easy to create a custom aesthetic for your home, office, or any other space. Now the company has released slick matte black skin covers (matte pink too) to easily transform the white exterior of the lights. more… The post Hands-on: Matte black skin covers let you transform Nanoleaf Lines HomeKit modular lights appeared first on 9to5Mac.

Due to their high porosity, vast surface area and ample inner void space, hollow structured nanomaterials have huge potential in the sectors of adsorption, catalysis, energy storage and...

A team of scientists have velcroed 2D structures of MoS2 and graphene using a covalent connection for the first ime. The 2D-2D structures were used to build robust field effect transistors with controlled electronic communication, interface chemical nature and interlayer distance. The electronic properties of the system are dominated by the interface of the two covalently bonded layered materials.

Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has just published a review article in the journal Brain Structure and Function that brings anthropology and neuropsychology together to investigate the evolution of the parietal lobes in hominins and, in particular, to consider those aspects that could have influenced the evolution of material culture.

Our planet is full of mysteries. How exactly did Earth form and evolve to its current state? Why

Neutral atom quantum computers promise solutions to many of the problems that beset today’s devices, but the technology is still nascent. Recent breakthroughs in the ability to control and program these devices suggest they may be nearing prime time. The most well-developed quantum technology today relies on superconducting qubits, which power both IBM and Google’s […]

ZDNet Latest NewsMastercards Digital Transactions deploys Microsoft AI to improve fraud protection - The two companies are combining their innovative technologies to better protect consumers from an increasingly prevalent form of digital fraud. ...

TechRadarAmazon is sinking a pile of cash into developing human-like robots - Amazon is launching a $1 billion Industrial Innovation Fund. Amazon has announced a $1 billion Industrial Innovation Fund, which will help fund companies and startups at all stages across customer fulfilment, logistics, and supply chain technology. We see an opportunity to look beyond our own experience and empower companies that ...

Healthy Soil Biomes (HSB) and StoryFile have launched an AI-powered conversational video experience with five experts to provide the public with engaging resources on how to create healthy farming...

It also asks if people have used the NHS for these issues and about the success of services.

Researchers have developed a technique that enables a robot to learn a new pick-and-place task with only a

After consulting with a machine learning tool, providers were able to more accurately determine whether patients had a