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Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro review: Solid phones, great software, perfect pricing | Engadget

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The Pixel 6 is the most intriguing phone Google has made in years. Not only is it a return to premium design with eye-catching colors and up to a 120Hz screen, it’s also powered by the company’s first mobile processor — Tensor. With it, Google is ...

Oct 25, 2021

Atomic-scale 'lasagna' keeps heat at bay

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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found new ways of controlling how heat flows through thin materials by stacking atomically thin layers of atoms into van der Waals heterostructures. By comparing different stacks of different mat...

Oct 25, 2021

Ferritin-based nanomedicine developed for targeted leukemia therapy

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Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University and Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University have developed a ferritin (Fn)-based nanomedicine for targeted delivery of arsen...

Oct 25, 2021

Using nanofibers to stop brain tumor cells from spreading

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Brain cancer is difficult to contain and is often resistant to conventional treatment methods. Predicting tumor cell behavior requires a better understanding of their invasion mechanism. Now, researchers from University of Fukui, Japan, have used ...

Oct 25, 2021

Researchers develop 'virus-killing' air filtration system

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A new carbon-based air filtration nanomaterial capable of capturing and destroying various viruses, including animal coronavirus, a close relative of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—has been developed by Cambridge scientists and engineers.

Oct 25, 2021

Researchers Observe Chiroptical Activity from Nanomaterials

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A team of researchers successfully transferred chirality from the molecular scale to microscale to expand material platforms and applications. The optical activity from this innovative chiral material falls in the short-wave infrared region.

Oct 25, 2021

Researchers discover ferromagnetism induced by defects in correlated 2D materials

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A weak ferromagnetic (FM) ground state at low temperature in few-layered van der Waals (vdW) magnetic Ni1-xCoxPS3 nanosheets containing sulfur vacancies (Sv) was discovered by a research team led by Prof. He Jun from National Center for Nanoscienc...

Oct 25, 2021

Imec and MiDiagnostics to Commercialize COVID-19 Breath Sampler

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Imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technology, has signed a nonexclusive licensing agreement with miDiagnostics, a spinoff of imec in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, to commercialize technology that cap...

Oct 25, 2021

Power Generator That Mimics Seaweed Movement Developed for Harvesting Static Energy from Ocean Waves

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A new study developed a triboelectric nanogenerator that mimics the movement of a seaweed. The device was made to harness power from the statics made by the ocean waves.

Oct 25, 2021

Nanoparticle-mediated, slow-release delivery of TT-10 enhances heart attack recovery in mouse model

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A heart attack kills heart muscle cells, leading to a scar that weakens the heart, often leading to eventual heart failure. The lack of muscle repair is due to the very limited ability of mammalian heart muscle cells to proliferate, except for a b...

Oct 25, 2021

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