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Falling water forms beautiful fluted films
Studying the physics behind this fleeting fluid phenomenon could improve various industrial processes.
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Bioengineering
Promising patch for blood pressure monitoring
A wearable, optoelectronic patch worn on the skin could transform blood pressure monitoring for patients with chronic health conditions.
Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
Stylolites complicate sound wave propagation in sedimentary rock samples
Weak discontinuities in limestone rock samples introduce noise into acoustic imaging with implications for monitoring lab-scale hydraulic fracturing.
Chemistry
Catalysts provide the right pathway to green energy
A novel material is shown to be one of the most efficient photocatalysts for solar-driven production of hydrogen peroxide.
Marine Science
AI reveals the universal beauty of coral reef growth
A study of global coral reef distributions reveals that reefs exhibit universal spatial properties conforming to mathematical power laws.
Computer Science
Improving chip design on every level
Microchip designs can be streamlined by incorporating both high-level concepts and low-level wiring details in the same modelling framework.
Material Science and Engineering
Solvent selection tool boosts thermoelectric devices
By choosing the best chemical to dissolve polymer components, researchers can squeeze more electricity from leftover heat.
Chemistry
Hollow molecules offer sustainable hydrocarbon separation
Molecular sieves reduce the energy costs of extracting valuable components from crude oil.
Plant Science
Reference genomes for rice’s wild relatives may boost future crops
Eleven new reference genomes highlight the evolutionary path of the rice genus and may help improve crops.
Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering
Exploring the evolution of the Red Sea’s carbonate platforms
Understanding how carbonate platforms have developed provides insights into what the future may hold for the valuable reef ecosystems they sustain.
Bioengineering
Sensing stress to keep plants safe
A minimally invasive sensor can continuously measure levels of stress hormones.
Bioengineering
Building better biosensors from the molecule up
The structure of polymers in organic electrochemical transistors can dramatically alter their interaction with ions in biological samples.
Computer Science
Sweat-sniffing sensor could make workouts smarter
No blood, no batteries — just sweat, microwaves and some seriously cool science.
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Giving voice to the voiceless through assistive technology
Artificial skin coupled with sensors and machine learning technology allows people with voice disorders to communicate using soundless mouth movements.
Bioengineering
A new approach to rare disease diagnosis
An innovative AI-based tool leverages varied symptom descriptions, along with evidence from the scientific literature and genomic datasets, to pinpoint disease-associated gene variants.
Bioscience
COVID-19 mutations and their links with excessive immune responses
Mutations on a key SARS-CoV-2 viral protein are linked to extreme immune responses and could offer a novel vaccine target.
Bioengineering
Fungal enzymes may enhance provitamin A content and stability in crop plants
A simple enzymatic pathway taken from fungi can enhance the production and storage of provitamin A in crop plants.
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