After brain surgery, Jon Nelson and other volunteers are tasked with rehabbing their brain. This job is harder than it might seem, as people re-learn how to navigate the world with a range of emotions that they haven’t felt in a long…
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How are clouds’ shapes made? A scientist explains the different cloud types and how they help forecast weather
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to
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Monitoring Subvisible Particles in Biotherapeutics
Flow Imaging Microscopy for Particle Quantification and Characterization
By: Austin Daniels, PhD, Application Scientist, Yokogawa Fluid Imaging Technologies
Subvisible Particles in Biotherapeutics…
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The two numbers that could solve maths’ biggest mysteries
There’s an entire world out there – one rich in valleys, hills, parading elephants, and infinite detail – that can be described in just four words. It may sound fantastical, but not only is this world is very real – it also hides a mystery…
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Scientists Spent 20 Years on This Platinum Mystery and Finally Solved It
For years, scientists were baffled by a peculiar problem: why do platinum electrodes, usually stable, corrode so quickly in electrochemical devices? A collaboration between SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Leiden University cracked the…
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Cancer Cells Can Cooperate to Collect Nutrients
While cancer cells have been known to compete with each other for resources, it seems that they have also found a way to work together to gather nutrients. When exposed to amino acids, cells can compete to…
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Quantum Milestones, 1959: Ghostly Influence of Magnetic Field
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Aharonov and Bohm proposed a scenario in which quantum particles experience electromagnetic effects even though there is no field in their immediate vicinity.
Physics Today 62, 38 (2009)/AIP
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Superconducting Quantum Computing Beyond 100 Qubits
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A new high-performance quantum processor boasts 105 superconducting qubits and rivals Google’s acclaimed…
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Chemists amid coronavirus five years on | Opinion
Five years ago, the world was confronting a pandemic that has so far been linked to 700 million cases and more than 7 million deaths globally. The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines that began in late 2020 eventually contained the virus, but it…
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Chemists amid coronavirus five years on: Krystle McLaughlin | Opinion
When Covid-19 hit in early 2020, protein x-ray crystallographer Krystle McLaughlin, an assistant chemistry professor at Vassar College in New York, US, felt overwhelmed and ‘extra behind’. She had taken parental leave after having a…
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