A new type of circuit board which is almost entirely biodegradable could help reduce the environmental harms of electronic waste, its inventors say.
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Compostable circuits could slash environmental impact of electronics
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A self-assembling shortcut to better organic solar cells
Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have created a molecule that naturally forms p/n junctions, structures that are vital for converting sunlight into electricity. Their findings offer a promising shortcut to producing more efficient organic…
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What air pollution does to the human body
I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early 2000s. The city sits on the plain, skyscrapers rising and buildings extending far into the distance. Except, as we drove out…
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Why Philly has so many sinkholes
Sinkholes form when underground rock dissolves or sediment washes away and the surface collapses. Luis Diaz Devesa/Moment Collection/Getty Images In early January, a giant sinkhole formed at an intersection in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of…
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A faint signal from the Universe’s dark ages could reveal dark matter
The Universe began about 13.8 billion years ago with the Big Bang, a moment of extremely rapid expansion. Roughly 400,000 years later, after the cosmos cooled enough for atoms to form, it entered a long and quiet phase known as the “Dark Ages.”…
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Scientists Discover “Master Regulator” That Could Help Reverse Brain Aging at Its Source
The human brain doesn’t “break” overnight. Over years—typically decades—neurons quietly struggle to keep up with the relentless housekeeping that keeps thought and memory intact: turning the right genes on and…
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The UK government is backing AI that can run its own lab experiments
“There are better uses for a PhD student than waiting around in a lab until 3 a.m. to make sure an experiment is run to the end,” says Ant Rowstron, ARIA’s chief technology officer.
ARIA picked 12 projects to fund from the 245…
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9/11 WTC Health Program workforce cut by 25% under Kennedy as patient count rises, advocates say
The staff running the federal World Trade Center Health Program has been cut by 25% as the number of sick 9/11 survivors the group treats is expected to increase by 10,000 this year, the Daily News has learned.
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Surprisingly in sync: Sunlight and sediments reveal climate history of Antarctica
The remnants of ice attached to the coast offer astounding insights into the climate history of past millennia. An international research team led by the CNR Institute of Polar Sciences (Italy) and involving the University of Bonn has applied a…
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MANUS Introduces Metagloves Pro Haptic
MANUS has announced the launch of Metagloves Pro Haptic.
The new gloves extend the Metagloves Pro platform by combining millimeter-accurate hand tracking with integrated haptic feedback, enabling operators to capture movement while…
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