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Turning Your Living Room into a Wireless Charging Station
A look inside of an LCD television manufacturing plant. A new paper shows that similar technology could be used to create a room-wide wireless...
New SIDS research shows carbon dioxide, inner ear damage may play important role
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) may be linked to the build up of carbon dioxide and existing inner ear damage according to a new...
Researchers use CRISPR to accelerate search for HIV cure
Researchers at UC San Francisco and the academically affiliated Gladstone Institutes have used a newly developed gene-editing system to find gene mutations that make...
Improved water splitting advances renewable energy conversion
Gas bubbles form as researchers use a unique catalyst to convert water to hydrogen and oxygen. The inset image shows the catalytic materials at...
Hormone that controls maturation of fat cells discovered
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered a hormone that controls the first step in the maturation of fat cells. Its...
The gene of autumn colours
SGR induces colour changes in leaves. SGR was experimentally induced (bottom) in Arabidopsis and compared with the normal leaves (top). Excised leaves were observed...
For the first time, magnets are be made with a 3-D printer
A magentic cup-like shape, created in the 3-D printer. Credit: TU Wien
Today, manufacturing strong magnets is no problem from a technical perspective. It is,...
Can the brain feel it? The world’s smallest extracellular needle-electrodes
Extracellular needle-electrode with a diameter of 5 ?m mounted on a connector. Credit: (C) Toyohashi University of Technology. All Rights Reserved.
Single 5?m diameter needle...
Accelerated glacier melting in West Antarctica documented
For a pair of recent studies, UCI and NASA JPL scientists examined three neighboring glaciers in West Antarctica that are melting and retreating at...
New species of extremely leggy millipede discovered in a cave in California
The new species (Illacme tobini) of extremely leggy millipede from a Sequoia National Park cave.Credit: Paul Marek, Virginia Tech; CC-BY 4.0
Along with many spiders,...
World’s largest study shows effects of long-term exposure to air pollution and traffic noise...
Air pollution and traffic noise have been linked to high blood pressure. Credit: © sgym662114114 / Flickr
Long-term exposure to air pollution is linked to...
