Does life exist beyond Earth and have the building blocks of life existed in our solar system for billions of years? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of…
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Scientists shocked by durability of surgery-sparing technique
A nanotechnology-based drug delivery system developed at UVA Health to save patients from repeated surgeries has proved to have unexpectedly long-lasting benefits in lab tests — a promising sign for its potential to help human patients.
The…
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AI Voices Should Sound Robotic Again: A Simple Solution
Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those robot voices are being made obsolete by new
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Better male birth control is on the horizon
In 1960, a new drug revolutionized society from the bedroom to the streets. The introduction of a hormonal contraceptive, the birth control pill, gave women reproductive autonomy and a more effective way to plan a family. Since then,…
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Sony Kills Recordable Blu-Rays, MiniDiscs, and MiniDVs
Physical media fans need not panic yet—you’ll still be able to buy new Blu-Ray movies for your collection. But for those who like to save copies of their own data onto the discs, the remaining options just became more limited: Sony
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Scientists ‘mimic real biological processes’ using synthetic neurons
Jan 30, 2025 (Nanowerk News) Artificially engineered biological processes, such as perception systems, remain an elusive target for organic electronics experts due to the reliance of… Continue Reading
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Physics – Oscillating Magnetoresistance
• Physics 18, s14
At low temperatures the resistance of a layered magnetic semiconductor shoots up and down in response to an increasing magnetic field.
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Cooling of Pacific Waters Tied to Winds from Global Warming
• Physics 18, 21
Researchers have identified why most climate models don’t match up with an observed cooling trend in the tropics.
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Changes in wind patterns—driven by global warming—can… Continue Reading
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On the trail of cosmic cataclysms
Based in Namibia, the H.E.S.S. telescope array monitors the showers of particles produced when the highest-energy cosmic rays ever observed in the Universe impact the Earth’s atmosphere.
The most violent and explosive…
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Scientists Find Amino Acids, Salts and Other Compounds in Samples from Asteroid Bennu
Asteroid Bennu is thought to be made of rubble fragments from a 4.5-billion-year-old parent body, containing materials that originated beyond Saturn, which was destroyed long ago in a collision with another object. In two new papers,…
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