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Nanoparticles derived from tea leaves destroy lung cancer cells
Nanoparticles derived from tea leaves inhibit the growth of lung cancer cells, destroying up to 80% of them, new research by a joint Swansea...
New blood test rapidly detects signs of pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer is expected to become the second deadliest cancer in the United States by 2030. It is tough to cure because it is...
Researchers operate lab-grown heart cells by remote control
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and their collaborators have developed a technique that allows them to speed up or...
3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater, moves objects
Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs objects and moves them.
The watery creation could lead to...
A new map for a birthplace of stars
A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast seedbed of stars similar to Earth's Sun.
The maps provide unprecedented...
Scientists analyze first ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia
The first whole-genome analyses of ancient human DNA from Southeast Asia reveal that there were at least three major waves of human migration into...
Robotic assembly of the world’s smallest house—even a mite doesn’t fit through the door
A French nanorobotics team from the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, assembled a new microrobotics system that pushes forward the frontiers of optical nanotechnologies....
Can a quantum drum vibrate and stand still at the same time?
Researchers have studied how a 'drumstick' made of light could make a microscopic 'drum' vibrate and stand still at the same time.
A team of...
Researchers create a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater, moves objects
Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created a 3-D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs objects and moves them.
The watery creation could lead to...
A soft solution to the hard problem of energy storage
It's great in the lab, but will it actually work? That's the million-dollar question perpetually leveled at engineering researchers. For a family of layered...
Self-assembling 3-D battery would charge in seconds
The world is a big place, but it's gotten smaller with the advent of technologies that put people from across the globe in the...
