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Particle free silver ink prints micro electronics

Particle-free silver ink prints small, high-performance electronics

University of Illinois materials scientists have developed a new reactive silver ink for printing high-performance electronics on ubiquitous, low-cost materials [...]

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The extinct saber-toothed cat, among the largest cats ever to live, roamed North and South America.

Prehistoric Predators With Supersized Teeth Had Beefier Arm Bones

The toothiest prehistoric predators also had beefier arm bones, according to results of a study published today in the journal [...]

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Bathroom sinks making people sick

It came from below: Bathroom sinks causing human infections

A study examining the prevalence of the fungus Fusarium in bathroom sink drains suggests that plumbing systems may be a [...]

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Scientists model brain structure to help computers recognize objects

Scientists model brain structure to help computers recognize objects

An essential question confronting neuroscientists and computer vision researchers alike is how objects can be identified by simply “looking” at [...]

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Gene discovery explains how fruitflies retreat from heat

A discovery in fruit flies may be able to tell us more about how animals, including humans, sense potentially dangerous [...]

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Simpler Way to Assess Risk for Chemicals

Approximately 80,000 industrial chemicals are in use and about 700 new chemicals are introduced to commerce each year in the [...]

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Cheating cells are destined to fail

It took former Rice University graduate student Jennie Kuzdzal-Fick a long time to confirm it, but now she knows: Cheaters [...]

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Physicists report nanotech feat with proteins

UCLA physicists have made nanomechanical measurements of unprecedented resolution on protein molecules. The new measurements, by UCLA physics professor Giovanni [...]

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Elemental ‘cookbook’ guides efficient thermoelectric combinations

A repository developed by Duke University engineers that they call a “materials genome” will allow scientists to stop using trail-and-error methods for combining electricity-producing materials called “thermoelectrics.”
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New conductivity technique could cool computer chips, lasers

The surprising discovery of a new way to tune and enhance thermal conductivity — a basic property generally considered to be fixed for a given material — gives engineers a new tool for managing thermal effects in smart phones and computers, laser…

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Stretchy Electronic Skin Could Detect, Respond to Touch

Imprinting electronic circuitry on backplanes that are both flexible and stretchable promises to revolutionize a number of industries and make [...]

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New path to flex and stretch electronics

Imprinting electronic circuitry on backplanes that are both flexible and stretchable promises to revolutionize a number of industries and make “smart devices” nearly ubiquitous. Among the applications that have been envisioned are electronic pads that …

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Vision scientists demonstrate innovative learning method

New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. It’s the kind of thing seen in Hollywood’s “M…

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Small step for lungfish, a big step for evolution of walking

The eel-like body and scrawny “limbs” of the African lungfish would appear to make it an unlikely innovator for locomotion. But its improbable walking behavior, newly described by University of Chicago scientists, redraws the evolutionary route of life…

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Researchers create Alzheimer’s antibodies

Troy, N.Y. — Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to design antibodies aimed at combating disease. The surprisingly simple process was used to make antibodies that neutralize the harmful protein particles that …

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Slow road to stability for emulsions

By studying the behavior of tiny particles at an interface between oil and water, researchers at Harvard have discovered that stabilized emulsions may take longer to reach equilibrium than previously thought. Much longer, in fact.

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Lipid-modifying enzyme: New target for pan-viral therapeutics

Three different disease-causing viruses — poliovirus, coxsackievirus, and hepatitis C — rely on their unwilling host for the membrane platforms enriched in a specific lipid, phosphatidylinositol 4 phosphate (PI4P) on which they can replicate, Rutgers…

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Researchers find best routes to self-assembling 3-D shapes

Material chemists and engineers would love to figure out how to create self-assembling shells, containers or structures that could be used as tiny drug-carrying containers or to build 3-D sensors and electronic de…

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