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Chiral Faraday effect breakthrough, thanks to helices made of nickel

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Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have for the first time been able to prove a long-predicted but as yet unconfirmed fundamental effect. In Faraday chiral anisotropy, the propagation characteristics of light wav...

May 7, 2021

Self-generating yarn made from graphene oxide strands

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A team of researchers from Zhejiang University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Monash University has developed a way to bind multiple strands of graphene oxide into a thick cable. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group desc...

May 7, 2021

Rice University Adapts Laser-Induced Graphene Technique to Create Light-Sensitive Materials

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A Rice University laboratory has adapted its laser-induced graphene technique to make high-resolution, micron-scale patterns of the conductive material for consumer electronics and other applications....

May 7, 2021

Capturing a single photon of light: Harnessing quantum's 'noise problem'

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Scientists at Raytheon BBN Technologies have developed a new way to detect a single photon, or particle of light—a development with big applications for sensors, communications and exponentially more powerful quantum computer processors.

May 7, 2021

IBM's new 2-nm chips have transistors smaller than a strand of DNA

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In a shining example of the inexorable march of technology, IBM has unveiled new semiconductor chips with the smallest transistors ever made. The new 2-nanometer (nm) tech allows the company to cram a staggering 50 billion transistors onto a chip ...

May 7, 2021

Scientists discover how to trick cancer cells to consume toxic drugs

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New research led by a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) points to a promising strategy to boost tumors' intake of cancer drugs, thereby increasing the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments. The group's findings are publishe...

May 7, 2021

European food safety panel reclassifies common food coloring as unsafe

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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has reclassified food coloring E171 (titanium dioxide) after an expert panel concluded it “can no longer be considered safe as a food additive.” The announcement comes after years of research suggesting th...

May 7, 2021

Why hotter clocks are more accurate

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A new experiment shows that the more energy consumed by a clock, the more accurate its timekeeping.This is the first time that a measurement has been made of the entropy - or heat loss - generated by a minimal clock tens of nanometers thick and 1...

May 7, 2021

Breaching the blood-brain barrier to deliver precious payloads

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RNA-based drugs may change the standard of care for many diseases, making personalized medicine a reality. So far these cost-effective, easy-to-manufacture drugs haven't been very useful in treating brain tumors and other brain disease. But a...

May 7, 2021

Breakthrough thanks to helices made of nickel

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Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have for the first time been able to prove a long-predicted but as yet unconfirmed fundamental effect. In Faraday chiral anisotropy, the propagation characteristics of light wav...

May 7, 2021

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