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What Goes Up Must Come Down: Helping Clean Up Space Junk With First-of-Its-Kind Mission Optimizer
Illustration of ClearSpace-1, a planned active debris removal mission. Credit: ClearSpace SA Less than a year on from the UK Space Agency committing £1 million…
View More What Goes Up Must Come Down: Helping Clean Up Space Junk With First-of-Its-Kind Mission OptimizerScientists Harness Human Protein To Deliver RNA Molecular Medicines to Cells
Fully assembled SEND packages are released from the cell to be collected for gene therapy. Credit: McGovern Institute Made of components found in the human…
View More Scientists Harness Human Protein To Deliver RNA Molecular Medicines to CellsTransforming Circles Into Squares: Researchers Reconfigure Material Topology on the Microscale
Researchers encoded patterns and designs into the material by making tiny, invisible tweaks to the geometry of the triangular lattice. Credit: Image courtesy of Shucong…
View More Transforming Circles Into Squares: Researchers Reconfigure Material Topology on the MicroscaleA Peculiar State of Matter in Layers of Semiconductors Could Advance Quantum Computing
The setup for the milli-electronvolt inelastic X-ray scattering that probes the many-body localization in the disordered superlattice system. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers In…
View More A Peculiar State of Matter in Layers of Semiconductors Could Advance Quantum ComputingGraphene Binds Drugs That Kill Bacteria on Medical Implants To Prevent Infection
Usnic acid (yellow) is integrated in and released from the implant’s graphene coating. The usnic acid kills the bacteria (green) and thereby prevents them from…
View More Graphene Binds Drugs That Kill Bacteria on Medical Implants To Prevent InfectionAI Networks Based on Human Brain Connectivity Can Perform Cognitive Tasks
Artificial neural networks modeled on real brains can perform cognitive tasks. A new study shows that artificial intelligence networks based on human brain connectivity can…
View More AI Networks Based on Human Brain Connectivity Can Perform Cognitive TasksHow an Elephant’s Trunk Manipulates Air To Eat and Drink – Animal’s “Swiss Army Knife” Could Help Build Better Robots
New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that elephants dilate their nostrils in order to create more space in their trunks, allowing them…
View More How an Elephant’s Trunk Manipulates Air To Eat and Drink – Animal’s “Swiss Army Knife” Could Help Build Better RobotsExperiments Prove Quantum Computing Errors Correlated, Tied to Cosmic Rays
In experiments performed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researchers found that fluctuations in the electrical charge of multiple quantum bits, or “qubits,” can be highly…
View More Experiments Prove Quantum Computing Errors Correlated, Tied to Cosmic RaysMIT’s New Tunable “Metasurface” is Akin to Optical Swiss Army Knife
Close-up of the new MIT metasurface, or flat optical device patterned with some 100,000 nanoscale structures, that is integrated on a silicon chip and can…
View More MIT’s New Tunable “Metasurface” is Akin to Optical Swiss Army Knife