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How cigarette butts can be recycled into bricks: A step-by-step plan

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Researchers have shown how industries could work together to recycle cigarette butts into bricks, in a step-by-step implementation plan for saving energy and solving...

E-beam atomic-scale 3-D ‘sculpting’ could enable new quantum nanodevices

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By varying the energy and dose of tightly focused electron beams, researchers have demonstrated the ability to both etch away and deposit high-resolution nanoscale...

Meteorite study calls into doubt a popular theory about the early...

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It is generally accepted that the inner region of the early solar system was subject to an intense period of meteoric bombardment referred to...

How to train a machine to see 3-D in the dark

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Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have developed a new way to create an almost perfect hologram in near darkness. Optical holograms are a...

Dust may have controlled ancient human civilization

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When early humans began to travel out of Africa and spread into Eurasia over a hundred thousand years ago, a fertile region around the...

COVID-19 virus uses heparan sulfate to get inside cells

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A molecule known as ACE2 sits like a doorknob on the outer surfaces of the cells that line the lungs. Since January 2020, researchers...

Lab discovers small ‘Cain-and-Abel’ molecule

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A new bacterial molecule with the unsavory tendency to track down and kill others of its own kind has been discovered in the human...

Physicists discover new magnetoelectric effect

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Electricity and magnetism are closely related: Power lines generate a magnetic field, rotating magnets in a generator produce electricity. However, the phenomenon is much...

Ultra-fast magnetic switching with potential to transform fiber optical communications

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Researchers at CRANN and Trinity's School of Physics have discovered that a new material can act as a super-fast magnetic switch. When struck by successive...

Researchers trace the outlines of two cultures within science

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In the world of scientific research today, there's a revolution going on—over the last decade or so, scientists across many disciplines have been seeking...

Infinite chains of hydrogen atoms have surprising properties, including a metallic...

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An infinite chain of hydrogen atoms is just about the simplest bulk material imaginable—a never-ending single-file line of protons surrounded by electrons. Yet a...