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Biodegradable photonic glitter made from nanocellulose replaces microplastics
Mar 18, 2025 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Tiny plastic particles from decorative glitter infiltrate water systems and soil worldwide, adding to the growing crisis of… -
Creating a Detailed Map of Antarctica’s Landscape Under the Ice
Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ships,…
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Astrophysicists Determine How Massive Neutron Stars Are When They Are Born
Astrophysicists from China and Australia have found that the birth masses of neutron stars can be described by a unimodal distribution that smoothly turns on at 1.1 solar masses and peaks at 1.27 solar masses, before declining as a steep power…
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Smart nanotherapy enhances immune attack on melanoma
Mar 18, 2025 Researchers developed an innovative nano-immune agonist that significantly improves immunotherapy outcomes for melanoma – a highly aggressive and hard-to-treat form of skin cancer.
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Bill to ban all Chinese nationals from receiving US student visas causes alarm | News
The US research community has been appalled by legislation that would block all Chinese nationals from receiving student visas. The bill’s sponsor, West Virginia Republican Riley Moore, who introduced to Congress on 14 March, said it will…
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Physicists Just Found a Way to Control Atoms Using Twisted Light
Scientists have unlocked a new way to control ionization, the process where atoms lose electrons, using specially designed light beams By leveraging optical vortex beams, light that carries angular momentum, they can precisely dictate how…
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For Huge Numbers of Microbes, There is Still no Genetic Data
Technological advancements in computation and genetics have enabled researchers to sequence the genomes of vast numbers of organisms. With metagenomics techniques, researchers are able to sequence all of the…
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Tunnelling to the heart of cell communication | Opinion
Multicellular existence is collaborative. Our cells are in constant communication, checking out one another’s state and sending signals to modulate or moderate the behaviour of neighbours. The usual textbook story identifies three means of…
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Nature Proven to Reduce Experience of Pain Intensity
A recent study published in Nature Medicine has provided compelling evidence that exposure to nature significantly reduces the subjective experience of pain intensity and unpleasantness. Conducted with a focus…
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Never-Before-Seen: UCLA Physicists Discover Mysterious Spiral Patterns on Solid Surfaces
Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer with metal films led to the discovery of intricate spiral patterns etched by a chemical reaction. Further experiments…
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