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Cervical cancer testing tech could replace pap smears, save lives: Emerging techniques could help detect the virus leading to cervical cancer low-income and developing nations

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Emerging technologies can screen for cervical cancer better than Pap smears and, if widely used, could save lives in areas where access to health care may be limited. In Biophysics Reviews, scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital write advanc...

Mar 31, 2021

Waiting for Quantum Computing? Try Probabilistic Computing

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An engineer channels Galileo to describe a new approach to computing: p-bits

Mar 31, 2021

Scientists create next gen living robots: Artificial living organisms can move material in swarms and record information

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Scientists up to create the next version of Xenobots - tiny biological robots that self-assemble, carry out tasks, and can repair themselves. Now they can move faster, and record information.

Mar 31, 2021

Insight into the evolution of bones: Modern biology considers bone cells (osteocytes) as essential for bone development and health

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Palaeontologists have now analyzed the bone structures of 400 million-year-old fossils of marine life at unprecedentedly high resolution and in 3D. To be able to view these structures, tomography experts examined the samples under the focused ion ...

Mar 31, 2021

Insight into the evolution of bones

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A joint team of paleontologists has now for the first time analyzed bone structures in 400 million-year-old fossils of marine life at unprecedentedly high resolution and in 3D. To be able to view these structures, tomography experts at the Helmhol...

Mar 31, 2021

Study shows promise of quantum computing using factory-made silicon chips: A single qubit on a standard silicon transistor chip has been successfully demonstrated as

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For the study, researchers were able to isolate and measure the quantum state of a single electron (the qubit) in a silicon transistor manufactured using a 'CMOS' technology similar to that used to make chips in computer processors.

Mar 31, 2021

Study shows promise of quantum computing using factory-made silicon chips

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The qubit is the building block of quantum computing, analogous to the bit in classical computers. To perform error-free calculations, quantum computers of the future are likely to need at least millions of qubits. The latest study, published in t...

Mar 31, 2021

Modeling the behavior of 2D materials under pressure

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Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST) have developed a method for modeling the behavior of 2D materials under pressure. The research will help create pressure sensors based on silicene or other 2D materials. ...

Mar 31, 2021

Kirigami-style fabrication may enable new 3D nanostructures

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A new technique that mimics the ancient Japanese art of kirigami may offer an easier way to fabricate complex 3D nanostructures for use in electronics, manufacturing and health care.

Mar 31, 2021

Curved plasmonic fluxes reveal new way to practical light manipulation within nanoscal

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Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University jointly with Russian colleagues and researchers from Technical University of Denmark the first time have experimentally proved the existence of a two-dimensional (2D) curved flux of plasmonic quasiparti...

Mar 31, 2021

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