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Classic Video Game System Used to Improve Understanding of the Brain

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We can examine every transistor in a classical microprocessor using the same techniques we use to understand the brain. For example, we can analyze...

Researchers achieve major breakthrough in flexible electronics

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Dr Png Rui-Qi (left), Mr Mervin Ang (middle) and Ms Cindy Tang (right) working on conducting polymers that can provide unprecedented ohmic contacts for...

Workouts with fewer reps could yield better results

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Researchers found doing fewer repetitions of these sprint intervals on a bike may lead to greater improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness.Image Credit: Flickr/W_Minshull Time-poor people who...

Cyanobacteria: The future of sunscreen?

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Sunscreens and moisturizers derived from biological sources such as cyanobacteria could represent a safer alternative to current, synthetically produced cosmetics, research published in the...

Researchers discover self-assembling 2D and 3D materials

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2D hexagonal sheet-like and 3D capsid structures based on atomically precise gold nanoclusters as guided by hydrogen bonding between the ligands. The inset in...

Researchers Quantify in High Speed a Viper’s Strike in Nature for...

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What factors determine the success/failure of a strike or escape in predator-prey relationships?Credit: Higham lab, UC Riverside Feeding is paramount to the survival of almost...

Giant Middle East dust storm caused by a changing climate, not...

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Dust storm in Beirut, Lebanon. Credit: Eli Bou-Zeid In August 2015, a dust storm blanketed large areas of seven Middle East nations in a haze...

Electron diffraction locates hydrogen atoms

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Representation of the structure of a cobalt aluminophosphate, superimposed onto a map showing maxima (in yellow) associated with the hydrogen positions, after analysis of...

Biologists discover how viruses hijack cell’s machinery

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Cryo-electron tomography shows how the bacterial cell is reorganized to resemble a more complicated plant or animal cell with a red nucleus-like compartment and...

Exercise … It does a body good: 20 minutes can act...

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Each time we exercise, we are truly doing something good for our body on many levels, including at the immune cell level. Credit: Flickr/Yuichi...

Reducing the radioresistance of cancer

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Kumamoto University (Japan) researchers revealed that when oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) cells are exposed to X-ray irradiation, interleukin-6 levels increase and activate the...