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Tracking down microplastics in Antarctica

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Sizing up the challenges in extracting lithium from geothermal brine

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Efficient organic solar cells processed from green solvents

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Doing photon upconversion a solid — Crystals that convert light to more useful wavelengths

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Accelerated renewables-based electrification paves the way for a post-fossil future

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Role of disordered protein interactions in gene expression

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Artificial intelligence that understands object relationships

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Timber or steel? Study helps builders reduce carbon footprint of truss structures

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How molecular clusters in the nucleus interact with chromosomes

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A seemingly unattainable energy transition

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Astronomers discover ancient brown dwarf with lithium deposits intact

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Synthetic tissue can repair hearts, muscles, and vocal cords

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Brief presence of water in Arabia Terra on Mars

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Mars seismic deployment lays groundwork for future planetary missions

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Reshaping the plastic lifecycle into a circle

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Electrons set the stage for neutrino experiments

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A new topological magnet with colossal angular magnetoresistance

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Enhancing the workhorse: Artificial intelligence, hardware innovations boost confocal microscope’s performance

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Time crystal in a quantum computer

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As LA traffic slowed amid the pandemic, researchers gained new insight into air pollution

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Nonverbal social interactions – even with unfriendly avatars – boost cooperation

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New study shows electric fields can improve the efficiency of wastewater purification

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Researchers develop new approach to nanoparticles that stop internal bleeding

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New method gives rapid, objective insight into how cells are changed by disease

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Free green services could substantially reduce emissions

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Two-meter COVID-19 rule is 'arbitrary measurement' of safety

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Chemical researchers invent bio-petroleum for sustainable materials

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Chemistry: Researchers develop novel, inexpensive catalysts enabling noble metal chemistry

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New process makes every atom matter for sustainable catalyst production

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Social stress key to population's rate of COVID-19 infection, study finds

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Closest pair of supermassive black holes yet

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Sun is likely an unaccounted source of the Earth’s water

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Research pushes auto industry closer to clean cars powered by direct ethanol fuel cells

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Researchers light the way for organic glow-in-the-dark materials

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Strong winds power electric fields in the upper atmosphere

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Team builds first living robots that can reproduce

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New discovery opens the way for brain-like computers

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Largest comet ever observed was active at near-record distance

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Programmable interaction between quantum magnets

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Development of an artificial vision device capable of mimicking human optical illusions

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In the quantum realm, not even time flows as you might expect

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'Magic wand' reveals a colorful nano-world

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‘Super jelly’ can survive being run over by a car

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Orbital harmony limits late arrival of water on TRAPPIST-1 planets

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New chip hides wireless messages in plain sight

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Origami, kirigami inspire mechanical metamaterials designs

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Over the top: Car jump study turns over old physics problem

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We might not know half of what’s in our cells, new AI technique reveals

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Shifting colors for on-chip photonics

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A new artificial material mimics quantum entangled rare earth compounds

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Clear as (quasi) crystal: Scientists discover the first ferromagnetic quasicrystals

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Pathway for ‘green ammonia’ opens in a combined experimental and computational study

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Getting quantum dots to stop blinking

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A new way to generate electricity from waste heat: Using an antiferromagnet for solid devices

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New device modulates visible light—without dimming it—with the smallest footprint and lowest power consumption

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Cystic fibrosis faithfully modeled in a human Lung Airway Chip

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Quantum brain sensors could be crucial in spotting dementia after scientists find they can track brain waves

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New ultrahard diamond glass synthesized

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Hubble witnesses shock wave of colliding gases in Running Man Nebula

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Analysis of Mars’s wind-induced vibrations sheds light on the planet’s subsurface properties

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Can defects turn inert materials into useful, active ones?

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One year on this giant, blistering hot planet is just 16 hours long

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Ultrashort-pulse lasers kill bacterial superbugs, spores

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Microbes can provide sustainable hydrocarbons for the petrochemical industry

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New research could help boost growth of clean cooking in sub-Saharan Africa

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By keeping ferroelectric 'bubbles' intact, researchers pave way for new devices

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Prize-winning technology for large-scale energy storage

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Bacteria may be key to sustainably extracting earth elements for tech

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Revolution in imaging with neutrons: FRM II research group develops new processing method for image data

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Tech companies underreport CO2 emissions

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Scientist reveals cause of lost magnetism at meteorite site

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One in five galaxies in the early universe could still be hidden behind cosmic dust

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High-speed propeller star is fastest spinning white dwarf

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How sugar-loving microbes could help power future cars

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Developing high-performance MXene electrodes for next-generation powerful battery

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Researchers develop ultra-thin 'computer on the bone'

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Shaping a sustainable future for a common plastic

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Scientists create insights into perhaps the most extreme state of matter produced on Earth

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Speeding up the energy transition reduces climate risks

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Macrogrid study: Big value in connecting America’s eastern and western power grids

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Bubbling up: Previously hidden environmental impact of bursting bubbles exposed in new study

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How ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible

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Two is better than one: Single-atom dimer electrocatalyst for green hydrogen production

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Plumbing the depths: Defect distribution in ion-implanted SiC diodes

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'Deepfaking the mind' could improve brain-computer interfaces for people with disabilities

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Study challenges standard ideas about piezoelectricity in ferroelectric crystals

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Chemistry breakthrough leads way to more sustainable pharmaceuticals

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Alien organisms – hitchhikers of the galaxy?

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Nanoscale ‘computer’ controls function of protein, influences cell behavior

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120-year-old reaction turned on its head with environment-friendly, paste-based method

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Physicists reveal non-reciprocal flow around the quantum world

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Exploding and weeping ceramics provide path to new shape-shifting material

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The social cost of nitrous oxide is understated under current estimates, new analysis concludes

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Life on Mars search could be misled by false fossils, study says

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Virtual fluid for the description of interfacial effects in metallic materials

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New holographic camera sees the unseen with high precision

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Methane from carbon dioxide

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Shape-morphing microrobots deliver drugs to cancer cells

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Glass as stable as crystal: Homogeneity leads to stability

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Finding the missing piece in global oil life-cycle assessment

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Invention lets people pay for purchases with a high-five

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Neuroscientists explore mysterious 'events' in the brain that open new avenues for understanding brain injuries and disorders

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Synthetic biology yields easy-to-use underwater adhesives

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Researchers develop rapid computer software to track pandemics as they happen

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Artificial intelligence successfully predicts protein interactions

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Game theory and economics show how to steer evolution in a better direction

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Do-It-Yourself artificial pancreas given approval by team of experts

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Making solar energy even more sustainable with light-powered technology

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A better-fitting molecular ‘belt’ for making new drugs

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Mathematicians derive the formulas for boundary layer turbulence 100 years after the phenomenon was first formulated

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Researchers create novel molecules that serve as ziplines for energy

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Electronic nose on a drone sniffs out wastewater treatment plant stink

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Microtissue system allows study of deadly lung disease

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A nanoantenna for long-distance, ultra-secure communication

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Solar energy with an' ironclad future'

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Astronomers team up to create new method to understand galaxy evolution

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Big data privacy for machine learning just got 100 times cheaper

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Carbon dioxide cold traps on the moon are confirmed for the first time

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Researchers train computers to predict the next designer drugs

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Ultra-large single-crystal WS2 monolayer

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This light-powered catalyst mimics photosynthesis

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Where does gold come from? New insights into element synthesis in the universe

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Bulletproof fingerprint technology takes images in the round

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Are scientists contaminating their own samples? New study shows we may be emitting clouds of microfibers

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Hubble tension: Showing the cracks in Gaussian Processes

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Liquid fuels from carbon dioxide

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Simulations provide clue to missing planets mystery

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New polymer detection method to turn the (pep)tide in the fight against water pollution

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Polymer discovery gives 3D-printed sand super strength

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Weak bonds a strength in making borophene

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Quantum confinement discovered in porous nano-photocatalyst

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Team engineers new way to get medication past blood-brain barrier

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The ethics of digital technology in the food sector – the future of data sharing

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Coal creation mechanism uncovered

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Simple silicon coating solves long-standing optical challenge

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Competing quantum interactions enable single molecules to stand up

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ESR-STM on single molecules and molecule-based structures

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Sustainable, biodegradable glitter – from your fruit bowl

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‘Dancing molecules’ successfully repair severe spinal cord injuries

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Using mechanical tools improves our language skills, study finds

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Machine learning refines earthquake detection capabilities

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Researchers find repeated link between volcanic eruptions and dynastic collapse in China's Imperial Era

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Using mechanical tools improves our language skills

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First quantum simulation of baryons

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CRISPR: Strategy refines genetic base editors

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CRISPR screen identifies new anti-inflammatory drug target

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New sensor detects ever smaller nanoparticles

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Crushed resistance: Tectonic plate sinking into a subduction zone

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Researchers recreate deep-Earth conditions to see how iron copes with extreme stress

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AI helps design the perfect chickpea

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New scalable method resolves materials joining in solid-state batteries

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Near-earth asteroid might be a lost fragment of the moon

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Black hole found hiding in star cluster outside our galaxy

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A personalized exosuit for real-world walking

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How prolonged radiation exposure damages nuclear reactors

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When algorithms get creative

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Adding sound to quantum simulations

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Needle free glucose monitoring a step closer for diabetics

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Gamma ray discovery could advance understanding of role of ultra-fast outflows in the evolution of galaxies

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Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly

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New method to detect Tatooine-like planets validated

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New computer model is a key step toward low-temperature preservation of 3D tissues, organs

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Plant-based gummy candy helps vegans and vegetarians get their vitamins

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Identifying individual proteins using nanopores and supercomputers

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Seizure forecasting with wrist-worn devices possible for people with epilepsy

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Data available for training AI to spot skin cancer are insufficient and lacking in pictures of darker skin

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Major cities could be close to self-sustaining through fully integrated solar

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Tread lightly: ‘Eggshell planets’ possible around other stars

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Engineers design autonomous robot that can open doors, find wall outlet to recharge

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Global river database documents 40 years of change

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Hidden behavior of supercapacitor materials

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AI behind deepfakes may power materials design innovations

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Scientists invent ‘smart’ window material that blocks rays without blocking views

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Long-term carbon dioxide emissions from cement production can be drastically reduced

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Biodiversity ‘time machine’ uses artificial intelligence to learn from the past

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How monitoring quantum Otto engine affects its performance

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Why teapots always drip

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New method to predict stress at atomic scale

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An innovative imaging technique for dynamic optical nanothermometry

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New study pinpoints likely path of COVID-related plastic waste in the ocean

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Sweat-collecting patch inspired by cactus spines

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A new tool for studying COVID's impact on gut health

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New insights into the structure of the neutron

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Converting methane to methanol -- with and without water

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Thinnest X-ray detector ever created

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'Mirror nuclei' to probe fundamental physics of atoms and neutron stars

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Researchers develop CRISPR-based rapid diagnostic tool for SARS-CoV-2

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Rocky exoplanets are even stranger than we thought

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Securing data transfers with relativity

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Increasingly frequent wildfires linked to human-caused climate change

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Making aircraft fuel from sunlight and air

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Baby seals can change their tone of voice

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Wind and solar could power the world’s major countries most of the time

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Giving robots social skills

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Repurposing carbon dioxide may be key to net-zero emissions

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Lake’s radioactivity concentration predicted for 10,000 days after the Fukushima accident

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Novel tag provides first detailed look into goliath grouper behavior

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Electron family creates previously unknown state of matter

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Experts master defects in semiconductors

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Just a game? Study shows no evidence that violent video games lead to real-life violence

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Polymer-coated nanoparticles to promote drug delivery to the brain

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Physicists discover novel quantum effect in bilayer graphene

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Autonomous driving: Saving millions in test kilometers

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Creating solar cells and glass from wood – or a billion tons of biowaste

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Working through a mental 'Bloch'

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Revolutionary identity verification technique offers robust solution to hacking

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Jet from giant galaxy M87: Computer modelling explains black hole observations

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Healable carbon fiber composite offers path to long-lasting, sustainable materials

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When is a basin of attraction like an octopus?

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Likely home of Martian meteorites pinpointed

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Astronomy: Say hello to Algol’s new companion star candidates

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Nanoscale self-assembling salt-crystal ‘origami’ balls envelop liquids

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Brightest ever X-ray shows lung vessels altered by COVID-19

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Astronomers make most distant detection yet of fluorine in star-forming galaxy

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Making aircraft fuel from sunlight and air

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Laboratory will illuminate formation, composition, activity of comets

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Revising a generalized spin current theory for the magnetoelectric effect in multiferroics

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Underground tests dig into how heat affects salt-bed repository behavior

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A quick, high-yield synthesis of molnupiravir, an investigational COVID antiviral pill

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Securing data transfers with relativity

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Turning plastic grocery bags into sustainable fuel

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Artificial intelligence to detect colorectal cancer

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New study proposes expansion of the universe directly impacts black hole growth

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Closer look at unexamined interactions could improve drug purification process

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A new dimension in magnetism and superconductivity launched

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Autonomous robotic rover helps scientists with long-term monitoring of deep-sea carbon cycle and climate change

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Quantum physics in proteins

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Energy efficiency instead of long-term storage

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Gravitational ‘kick’ may explain the strange shape at the center of Andromeda

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Quantifying spin for future spintronics

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Electric soot collector shows promise in mitigating emissions from residential biomass combustion

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Thin-film, high-frequency antenna array offers new flexibility for wireless communications

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New software predicts the movements of large land animals

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Government action needed to ensure insurance against major hacking of driverless vehicles, experts warn

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Tidal stream power can aid drive for net-zero and generate 11% of UK’s electricity demand

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Better models of atmospheric ‘detergent’ can help predict climate change

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ALMA scientists detect signs of water in a galaxy far, far away

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Wearable tech: Engineers invent ultra-fast manufacturing technology, eliminating need for polymer binders

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New kind of polyethylene: Durable and yet degradable

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An artificial material that can sense, adapt to its environment

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Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert likely created by ancient exploding comet

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Towards self-restoring electronic devices with long DNA molecules

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Spiders' web secrets unraveled

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Spiders' web secrets unraveled

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Highways shape the sociology of cities

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Researchers boost human mental function with brain stimulation

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Increased frequency of extreme ice melting in Greenland raises global flood risk

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Scientists build on AI modeling to understand more about protein-sugar structures

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Researchers move closer to controlling two-dimensional graphene

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Researchers discover predictable behavior in promising material for computer memory

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Trapping spins with sound

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Noninvasive imaging strategy detects dangerous blood clots in the body

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Spintronics: Exotic ferromagnetic order in two-dimensions

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Key to resilient energy-efficient AI/machine learning may reside in human brain

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