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Engineers Create Stable Plasma Ring in Open Air
Engineers used the flow of water over a crystal plate to generate a stable ring of plasma without a vacuum chamber or electromagnetic fields to contain it.
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Johns Hopkins engineering students build custom walker for tiny toddler
A group of Hopkins students have a special gift just in time for Christmas for a 2-year-old with a rare genetic disorder
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The United States of Toxins
Ranking the cities and states and release the most toxins into the environment.
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Electromagnetic Water Cloak Eliminates Drag and Wake
After a major metamaterials breakthrough, David Smith learned how to turn promising research into real-world applications.
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New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers
In a major step toward making a quantum computer using everyday materials, a team led by researchers at Princeton has constructed a key piece of silicon hardware capable of controlling quantum behavior between two electrons with extremely high precision.
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Spiders eat astronomical numbers of insects
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Vitamin D toxicity: What if you get too much?
Understand the risks of taking high doses of this vitamin in supplement form.
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3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiFi devices
UW engineers have developed the first 3-D printed plastic objects that can connect to other devices via WiFi without using any electronics, including a laundry
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Andrew Wiles on the struggle and beauty of mathematics
Roger Highfield explores the beauty of mathematics at a recent event at the Science Museum
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A faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates
MIT physicists have developed a faster way to make Bose-Einstein condensates, to speed up investigations into magnetism and superconductivity.
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Origami-inspired soft artificial muscles
By Lindsay Brownell (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Soft robotics has made leaps and bounds over the last decade as researchers around the world have experimented with different materials and designs to allow once rigid, jerky machines to bend and flex in ways that mimic and can interact more naturally with living organisms…
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The Shortest Papers Ever Published (2016)
A few of the most concise papers ever published.
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LIGO and Virgo announce the detection of a black hole binary merger
Scientists searching for gravitational waves have confirmed yet another detection from their fruitful observing run earlier this year. Dubbed GW170608, the latest discovery was produced by the merger of two relatively light black holes, 7 and 12 times the mass of the sun, at a distance of about a thousand million…
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Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered
A temperate Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from the Solar System by a team using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument. The new world has the designation Ross 128 b and is now the second-closest temperate planet to be detected after Proxima b. It is also the closest planet to be…
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IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor
Learn about IBM's performance and progress to become a more innovative and focused company.
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Robot-assisted surgery associated with longer operating times, higher cost
A Stanford study of nearly 24,000 patients with kidney cancer concluded that robot-assisted laparoscopic surgeries are associated with increases in operating times and cost compared with conventional laparoscopic surgeries.
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Batteries with 50 per cent more energy with pure silicon anode
The unit Energy and Materials Transition will focus primarily on the themes of a sustainable energy system and sustainable industry, including circularity.
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Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs
Researchers have pinpointed the date of what could be the oldest solar eclipse yet recorded. The event, which occurred on 30 October 1207 BC, is mentioned in the Bible and could have consequences for the chronology of the ancient world.
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Too much fructose can damage your liver, just like too much alcohol
There’s growing scientific consensus that one of the most common types of sugar, fructose, is toxic to the liver, just like alcohol.
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Training exercise boosts brain power, Johns Hopkins researchers say
Hopkins researchers identify specific exercise that boosts memory, attention
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Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.