Applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum…
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Gold battles cancer | ScienceDaily
Precious metals are not merely ornaments; they are also important components of pharmaceuticals, like the antitumor drug cisplatin. Recently, the search for alternatives with improved activity has begun to focus on gold. In the journal Angewandte…
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Nurses and AI collaborate to save lives, reduce hospital stays
An AI tool that analyzes nurses’ data and notes detected when patients in the hospital were deteriorating nearly two days earlier than traditional methods and reduced the risk of death by over 35%, found a year-long clinical trial of more than…
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Sensing sickness: New method for boosting bee health
Beekeepers in the United States lost more than 55 percent of managed colonies last year — the highest loss rate since the Apiary Inspectors of America began determining them in 2011. A new study from University of Vermont scientists and…
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Being physically active, even just a couple of days a week, may be key to better health
Being physically active for one to two days a week, often called a “weekend warrior,” may provide comparable health and life-prolonging benefits as smaller doses of daily physical activity if the physical effort is moderate to vigorous and totals…
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Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex
“I had got disillusioned with the state of the art of looking for life on other worlds,” Wong said. “I thought it was too narrowly constrained to life as we know it here on Earth, but life elsewhere may take a completely different…
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Asteroid impact threat estimates improved for the Earth and the Moon
An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 percent.
Asteroid 2024 YR4, first discovered in…
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Plant doctor: An AI system that watches over urban trees without touching a leaf
Urban trees and plants do more than just beautify city landscapes. They purify the air, reduce urban heat islands, provide recreational spaces, and even boost property values. As essential components of sustainable urban ecosystems, plants…
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New antibiotic for multidrug resistant superbug
Researchers from the universities in Konstanz and Vienna discover a new class of antibiotic that selectively targets Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea. These substances trigger a self-destruction program, which also…
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Blood test may rule out future dementia risk
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have demonstrated how specific biomarkers in the blood can predict the development of dementia up to ten years before diagnosis, among older adults living independently in the community.
A new study, published…
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