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The Lie-Detecting Security Kiosk of the Future
AVATAR can detect changes in physiology and behavior during interviews with travelers. AVATAR can detect changes in physiology and behavior during interviews with travelers....
Stability without junctions: Cadherin prevents cortical deformation
Scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that cadherin clusters, which are well known for...
Miniscule amounts of impurities in vacuum greatly affecting OLED lifetime
New research shows that miniscule amounts of impurities in vacuum are being incorporated into OLEDs during fabrication and leading to large variations in lifetime....
Physicists measure the loss of dark matter since the birth of the universe
The discrepancy between the cosmological parameters in the modern Universe and the Universe shortly after the Big Bang can be explained by the fact...
Cheetah Numbers Crash Globally
Image Source: Flickr/Ulrika
Scientists confirm just 7,100 cheetahs remain, call for uplisting to ‘Endangered’ on IUCN Red List
The world's fastest land animal, the cheetah (Acinonyx...
New atom interferometer could measure inertial forces with record-setting accuracy
MIT researchers describe a way to make atom interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates even more precise by eliminating a source of error endemic to earlier...
Diabetes, heart disease, and back pain dominate US health care spending
Animated GIF revealing trends in personal health spending in the US from 1997 to 2013. Credit: IHME
Just 20 conditions make up more than half...
Genome study reveals ‘gray zone’ of animals transitioning from one species to two
There is usually no ambiguity about species delineation when distant lineages are compared. For instance, there is no doubt that dogs and cats belong...
Shoulder pain linked to increased heart disease risk
If someone has rotator cuff problems, it could be a sign that there is something else going on. They may need to manage risk...
World’s smallest diamonds made into wires three atoms wide
An illustration shows the basic nanowire building block – a diamondoid cage carrying atoms of copper and sulfur – drifting toward the growing tip...
Engineers create programmable silk-based materials with embedded, pre-designed functions
A silk fibroin pin changes color from blue to red when the force applied reaches the material’s yield point. Source: Silk Lab
Tufts University engineers...
