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Chicago Contractor Working to Boost Minority Participation in $7B 1901 Project Murdered
A contractor murdered on Chicago’s West Side on March 24 is being remembered as a guide and champion for minority-owned businesses seeking to be part of the 1901 Project, a $7 billion-plus, 15-year plan to redevelop 55 acres around Chicago’s…
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What the Insects of the Jurassic Period Sounded Like
In reconstructing ancient ecosystems from fossils, paleontologists can deduce the sizes and shapes of the animals and plants that inhabited them. In some cases, the color of organisms can even be estimated from fossilized pigment structures. But…
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Jail-based programs could dramatically reduce hepatitis C infections
A Stanford study shows that jail-based hepatitis C programs could cut new infections by nearly half among people who inject drugs, potentially providing a major boost to lagging U.S. efforts to meet national hepatitis C elimination goals.
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Flexible gel can turn body heat into power for next-generation wearables
A soft material developed by researchers at QUT can convert body heat into electricity, opening the door to self-powered wearable devices and more sustainable energy technologies. Published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, the research…
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New Henrietta spectrograph to probe alien atmospheres
Finding life beyond our solar system goes beyond measuring an exoplanet’s size, as rocky, Earth-sized worlds might not have the conditions for life as we know it. While exoplanets can be directly imaged by blocking their star’s glare, these…
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Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats
To help small aerial robots navigate in the dark and other low-visibility environments, my colleagues and I developed an ultrasound-based perception system inspired by bat echolocation.
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Framework unifies the classical and quantum Mpemba effects
Physicists have developed a new theoretical framework which unifies a wide array of seemingly unrelated “Mpemba effects”: counterintuitive cases where systems driven further from equilibrium relax faster than those closer to it. Reporting their…
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