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Water-powered quantum dots enhance light detection with tunable performance

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Water molecules make up the essence of life on Earth, playing a crucial role in countless biological and chemical processes. Each water molecule, with its positively charged hydrogen atoms and negatively charged oxygen, acts as a tiny magnet that ...

Jan 21, 2025

Imaging electron dynamics with attosecond X-ray flashes opens new frontiers

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A team of researchers from the University of Hamburg and collaborators has achieved a breakthrough by capturing images of individual nanoparticles using single X-ray attosecond pulses. This advancement, which has been published in Nature Communica...

Jan 21, 2025

Washable smart floor technology generates power from footsteps

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Imagine floors that could light your path during a power outage or alert you to an intruder - all powered by your footsteps. While this concept has appealed to architects and engineers, creating practical smart floors has proven challenging. Regul...

Jan 21, 2025

Will Apple's iPhone 17 lineup use graphene cooling tech?

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Various reports suggest that the entire iPhone 17 lineup, including the iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max, will use a heat dissipation technology called "vapor chamber (VC) cooling system". It is not quite cl...

Jan 21, 2025

AI-powered data analysis uncovers issues in scientific publications

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AI-powered data analysis tools have the potential to significantly improve the quality of scientific publications. A new study by Professor Mathias Christmann, a chemistry professor at Freie Universität Berlin, has uncovered shortcomings in chemic...

Jan 20, 2025

The art and science of twisting light

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Left and right circularly polarized light, where the electromagnetic waves spiral in a clockwise and counterclockwise manner as they travel, plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, from enhancing medical imaging techniques to enablin...

Jan 20, 2025

Novel quantum state discovered in twisted graphene

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Professor Youngwook Kim of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), in collaboration with Professor Gilyoung Cho of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technolo...

Jan 20, 2025

Next-gen textile fibers sense light, pressure, smell and even taste

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Professor Bonghoon Kim from the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST) has successfully developed a groundbreaking multifunctional sensor that mimics the five hu...

Jan 20, 2025

Researchers observe unique quantum state in twisted bilayer graphene

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Researchers from Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Pohang University of Science and Technology, Institute for Basic Science, KAIST, Japan's National Institute for Materials Science and Max Planck Instit...

Jan 20, 2025

AI advances label-free photoacoustic microscopy for confocal cell imaging

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A research team at POSTECH has developed a technology that surpasses the constraints of traditional imaging methods, providing stable and highly accurate cell visualization. Their findings were published in Nature Communications ("Unsupervise...

Jan 19, 2025

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