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Text2App: A FRAMEWORK THAT CREATES ANDROID APPS FROM TEXT DESCRIPTIONS

Researchers at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and University of California- Los Angeles (UCLA) recently developed a framework that can create Android applications from text descriptions. This new app was presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv.

RESEARCHERS DEVELOP PROTOTYPE OF ROBOTIC DEVICE TO PICK, TRIM BUTTON MUSHROOMS

Researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have developed a robotic mechanism for mushroom picking and trimming and demonstrated its effectiveness for the automated harvesting of button mushrooms.

STUDIES SHOW PROMISE USING DRONES TO ELICIT EMOTIONAL RESPONSES

As drones become more ubiquitous in public spaces, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have conducted the first studies examining how people respond to various emotional facial expressions depicted on a drone, with the goal of fostering greater social acceptance of these flying robots.

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RESEARCHERS LEARN HOW SWIMMING DUCKS BALANCE WATER PRESSURE IN THEIR FEATHERS WHILE DIVING

A team of students working with Jonathan Boreyko, associate professor in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, has discovered the method ducks use to suspend water in their feathers while diving, allowing them to shake it out when surfacing. The discovery opens the door for applications in marine technology. Findings were published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

PROFESSOR WORKS TO MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCY OF SOLAR LIGHT PIPES

If you have witnessed the rainbow pattern that dances on the surface of a CD or DVD, then you have seen diffraction at work. The disk acts as a diffraction grating, an optical element that disperses light into various colors or wavelengths.

A BETTER LOOK AT HOW PARTICLES MOVE

If you take a bucket of water balloons and jostle one of them, the neighboring balloons will respond as well. This is a scaled-up example of how collections of cells and other deformable particle packings respond to forces. Modeling this phenomenon with computer simulations can shed light on questions about how cancer cells invade healthy tissue or how leaves and flowers grow. But the behavior of cell aggregates is extremely complex, and fully capturing their structure and dynamics has proved tricky.

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WORLD’S LAKES LOSING OXYGEN RAPIDLY AS PLANET WARMS

Oxygen levels in the world’s temperate freshwater lakes are declining rapidly—faster than in the oceans—a trend driven largely by climate change that threatens freshwater biodiversity and drinking water quality.

DEAD ZONES FORMED REPEATEDLY IN NORTH PACIFIC DURING WARM CLIMATES, STUDY FINDS

An analysis of sediment cores from the Bering Sea has revealed a recurring relationship between warmer climates and abrupt episodes of low-oxygen “dead zones” in the subarctic North Pacific Ocean over the past 1.2 million years.

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ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER A MASSIVE STAR CLUSTER, OF INTERMEDIATE AGE, IN THE CONSTELLATION SCUTUM

An international team of astrophysicists led by the Stellar Astrophysics Group of the University of Alicante (UA), the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Valparaíso (Chile) has discovered a massive cluster of stars of intermediate age in the direction of the Scutum constellation. This object, which has been named Valparaíso 1, lies some seven thousand light years away from the Sun, and contains at least fifteen thousand stars. To detect it, observations have been combined from ESA’s Gaia satellite, and various ground-based telescopes, including the Isaac Newton Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma, Canary Islands). The result has been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).

WHAT IF THE BLACK HOLE AT THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY IS ACTUALLY A MASS OF DARK MATTER?

A team of researchers at the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics has found evidence that suggests Sagittarius A* is not a massive black hole but is instead a mass of dark matter. In their paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, the group describes the evidence they found and how it has stood up to testing.

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HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE’S REMARKABLE TOUGHNESS UNMASKED

It’s official: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the iron man of 2D materials, so resistant to cracking that it defies a century-old theoretical description engineers still use to measure toughness.

BLOOD CLOT-BUSTING NANOCAPSULES COULD REDUCE EXISTING TREATMENT’S SIDE EFFECTS

Tested on human blood in the lab, the selective nanocapsules could reduce the side effects of a major blood clot dissolving drug, which include bleeding on the brain. If confirmed with animal tests, the nanocapsules could also make the drug more effective at lower doses.

NEW METHOD DEVELOPED TO IMPROVE DURABILITY OF NANO-ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS, FURTHER SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING

University of South Florida researchers recently developed a novel approach to mitigating electromigration in nanoscale electronic interconnects that are ubiquitous in state-of-the-art integrated circuits. This was achieved by coating copper metal interconnects with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), an atomically-thin insulating two-dimensional (2-D) material that shares a similar structure as the “wonder material” graphene.

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A RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK THAT INFERS THE GLOBAL TEMPORAL STRUCTURE BASED ON LOCAL EXAMPLES

Most computer systems are designed to store and manipulate information, such as documents, images, audio files and other data. While conventional computers are programmed to perform specific operations on structured data, emerging neuro-inspired systems can learn to solve tasks more adaptively, without having to be engineered to carry out a set type of operations.

RESEARCHERS CREATE A CAMERA THAT KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE IT IS

Researchers from the University of Bristol have demonstrated how a new special type of camera can build a pictorial map of where it has been and use this map to know where it currently is, something that will be incredibly useful in the development of smart sensors, driverless cars and robotics.

MAKING BATTERIES LIVE LONGER WITH ULTRATHIN LITHIUM

Our lives today are governed by electronics in all shapes and forms. Electronics, in turn, are governed by their batteries. However, the traditional lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), that are widely used in electronic devices, are falling out of favor because researchers are beginning to view lithium metal batteries (LMBs) as a superior alternative due to their remarkably high energy density that exceeds LIBs by an order of magnitude. The key difference lies in the choice of anode material: LIBs use graphite, whereas LMBs use lithium metal.

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WHY DEEP FREEZING IRON-BASED MATERIALS MAKES THEM BOTH MAGNETIC AND SUPERCONDUCTING

Physicists at the University of Bath in the UK, in collaboration with researchers from the USA, have uncovered a new mechanism for enabling magnetism and superconductivity to co-exist in the same material. Until now, scientists could only guess how this unusual coexistence might be possible. The discovery could lead to applications in green energy technologies and in the development of superconducting devices, such as next-generation computer hardware.

RESEARCHERS DEMONSTRATE A QUANTUM ADVANTAGE

Quantum computing and quantum sensing have the potential to be vastly more powerful than their classical counterparts. Not only could a fully realized quantum computer take just seconds to solve equations that would take a classical computer thousands of years, but it could have incalculable impacts on areas ranging from biomedical imaging to autonomous driving.

LIGHT-SHRINKING MATERIAL LETS ORDINARY MICROSCOPE SEE IN SUPER RESOLUTION

Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a technology that improves the resolution of an ordinary light microscope so that it can be used to directly observe finer structures and details in living cells.

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GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM RESERVOIRS HIGHER THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED

A new study in Global Biogeochemical Cycles shows per-area greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s water reservoirs are around 29% higher than suggested by previous studies, but that practical measures could be taken to help reduce that impact.

CryoSat REVEALS ICE LOSS FROM GLACIERS IN ALASKA AND ASIA.

As our climate warms, ice melting from glaciers around the world is one of main causes of sea-level rise. As well as being a major contributor to this worrying trend, the loss of glacier ice also poses a direct threat to hundreds of millions of people relying on glacier runoff for drinking water and irrigation. With monitoring mountain glaciers clearly important for these reasons and more, new research, based on information from ESA’s CryoSat mission, shows how much ice has been lost from mountain glaciers in the Gulf Alaska and in High Mountain Asia since 2010.

RESEARCH SHEDS LIGHT ON ORIGINS, AGE OF MASSIVE IMPACT CRATER

Hidden beneath a kilometer of ice in northwestern Greenland, an impact crater that could swallow a city the size of London, Ont. is the subject of much debate about its origins and age.

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FAST IS PROMISING IN INTERPLANETARY SCINTILLATION OBSERVATION

The radio signal from a distant compact radio source is scattered by the density inhomogeneities of the solar wind, and consequently a random diffraction pattern is observed on the Earth.

STUDY REVEALS DIVERSE MAGNETIC FIELDS IN SOLAR-TYPE STAR FORMING CORES

Magnetic fields are ubiquitous throughout the Milky Way galaxy and play a crucial role in all dynamics of interstellar medium. However, questions like how solar-type stars form out of magnetized molecular clouds, whether the role of magnetic fields changes at various scales and densities of molecular clouds, and what factors can change the morphology of magnetic fields in low-mass dense cores still remain unclear.

ASKAP TAKES A FIRST GLIMPSE AT THE GALACTIC PLANE

With the findings detailed in two Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society papers, a group of astronomers, led by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) and Macquarie University, reported the first radio observations toward the galactic plane using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), developed and managed by CSIRO—Australia’s national science agency. The region mapped by the researchers includes the entire area of the Stellar Continuum Originating from Radio Physics In Ourgalaxy (SCORPIO) survey, one of the exploration projects of the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) program, which will use the new ASKAP telescope to make a census of radio sources of the whole southern hemisphere.

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A NEW SOFT ELECTRONIC MATERIAL FOR HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACING

Researchers at DTU Health Tech have developed a new material that can facilitate a near-perfect merger between machines and the human body for diagnostics and treatment.

NANO-ENCAPSULATION FOR EFFICIENT DELIVERY IN PARKINSON’S TREATMENT

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder caused by the death of dopaminergic neurons in a part of the brain (known as substantia nigra pars compacta), which leads to a deficit of dopamine (DA), one of the main neurotransmitters active in the central nervous system. Symptomatic treatment focuses on increasing the concentration of dopamine into the brain.

SELF-AWARE MATERIALS BUILD THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVING STRUCTURES

From the biggest bridges to the smallest medical implants, sensors are everywhere, and for good reason: The ability to sense and monitor changes before they become problems can be both cost-saving and life-saving.

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MEDICAL AI MODELS RELY ON ‘SHORTCUTS’ THAT COULD LEAD TO MISDIAGNOSIS OF COVID-19

Artificial intelligence promises to be a powerful tool for improving the speed and accuracy of medical decision-making to improve patient outcomes. From diagnosing disease, to personalizing treatment, to predicting complications from surgery, AI could become as integral to patient care in the future as imaging and laboratory tests are today.

SONY LAUNCHES MOTION-SENSING MUSIC EFFECTS CONTROLLER, MOTION SONIC

A long time in the making, Sony has just announced the upcoming release of Motion Sonic, a new technology that allows music lovers to track their own movements as they play music. Whether you are strumming a guitar or waving your hands to a beat, Motion Sonic ensures your movements remain in sync with the melody at hand.

DANGEROUSLY TRENDING: DRIVERLESS TESLA VIDEOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

It was a boozy joyride captured for TikTok with a soundtrack provided by Justin Bieber and with a Tesla serving as the “Designated Driver” for the night

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PHONON CATALYSIS COULD LEAD TO A NEW FIELD

Batteries and fuel cells often rely on a process known as ion diffusion to function. In ion diffusion, ionized atoms move through solid materials, similar to the process of water being absorbed by rice when cooked. Just like cooking rice, ion diffusion is incredibly temperature-dependent and requires high temperatures to happen fast.

RESEARCHERS DISCOVER THAT A MECHANICAL CUE IS AT THE ORIGIN OF CELL DEATH DECISION

In many species including humans, the cells responsible for reproduction, the germ cells, are often highly interconnected and share their cytoplasm. In the hermaphrodite nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, up to 500 germ cells are connected to each other in the gonad, the tissue that produces eggs and sperm. These cells are arranged around a central cytoplasmic “corridor” and exchange cytoplasmic material fostering cell growth, and ultimately produce oocytes ready to be fertilized.

NEW TAKE ON MACHINE LEARNING HELPS US ‘SCALE UP’ PHASE TRANSITIONS

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have enhanced “super-resolution” machine learning techniques to study phase transitions. They identified key features of how large arrays of interacting particles behave at different temperatures by simulating tiny arrays before using a convolutional neural network to generate a good estimate of what a larger array would look like using correlation configurations. The massive saving in computational cost may realize unique ways of understanding how materials behave.

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BEER BYPRODUCT MIXED WITH MANURE PROVES AN EXCELLENT PESTICIDE

The use of many chemical fumigants in agriculture have been demonstrated to be harmful to human health and the environment and therefore banned from use.

GLOBAL WARMING ALREADY RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE IN THREE HEAT-RELATED DEATHS

Between 1991 and 2018, more than a third of all deaths in which heat played a role were attributable to human-induced global warming, according to a new article in Nature Climate Change.

A DEEP DIVE INTO ORGANIC CARBON DISTRIBUTION IN HADAL TRENCHES

Hadal trenches are one of the ocean’s most extreme and least studied regions. Hadal zones, which begin at depths of around 6,000 meters, were once thought to be “biological deserts,” but over time they have been shown to be teeming with life. However, the distribution and source of organic carbon in hadal sediments are still not well understood.

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JAPANESE SPACE AGENCY TO PUT TRANSFORMABLE LUNAR ROBOT ON THE MOON

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced on its website that the agency has plans to put a Transformable Lunar Robot on the moon. In their announcement, they note that the goal of the robot deployment is to learn more about the surface of the moon as part of preparation for the deployment of a future crewed rover.

CHINA LAUNCHES CARGO ROCKET WITH SUPPLIES FOR SPACE STATION

A rocket carrying supplies for China’s new space station blasted off Saturday from an island in the South China Sea.

CHINA TO SEND 3 MALE ASTRONAUTS TO ITS SPACE STATION IN JUNE

A three-man crew of astronauts will blast off in June for a three-month mission on China’s new space station, according to a space official who was the country’s first astronaut in orbit.

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SCIENTISTS LOOK TO CAPTURE CLEAN ENERGY FROM OUR CLOTHING

Could a jacket or a pair of jeans one day power your mobile phone and other electronic devices?

MOLECULAR JIGGLING HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR CARBON NANOTUBE FIBERS

New research suggests the jiggling motion of carbon nanotubes suspended in liquid solutions could have implications for the structure, processing and properties of nanotube fibers formed from those solutions.

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MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES FIRST PRODUCT FEATURES RUNNING ON GPT-3

During its Build developers conference this year, Microsoft announced its first features for a product fueled by GPT-3, the natural language model from OpenAI developed to assist users in building applications without any programming knowledge.

RESEARCHERS TAKE A PRACTICAL LOOK BEYOND SHORT-TERM ENERGY STORAGE

With variable renewable energy (VRE) expected to become a much larger share of the global energy mix, storage solutions are needed beyond short-duration timescales, such as standard commercial batteries, which are suitable for covering hourly differences in net load.

ONE-DIMENSIONAL ANDERSON INSULATORS PREDICTED TO HOST THE BULK PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECT

Materials in which electrons are strongly localized are promising for use in next-generation solar cells and optoelectronic devices, calculations by a RIKEN theoretical physicist and a collaborator have indicated.

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PHYSICISTS UNCOVER SECRETS OF WORLD’S THINNEST SUPERCONDUCTOR

Physicists from across three continents report the first experimental evidence to explain the unusual electronic behavior behind the world’s thinnest superconductor, a material with myriad applications because it conducts electricity extremely efficiently. In this case the superconductor is only an atomic layer thick.

SCIENTISTS UNRAVEL NOISE-ASSISTED SIGNAL AMPLIFICATION IN SYSTEMS WITH MEMORY

Signals can be amplified by an optimum amount of noise, but stochastic resonance is a fragile phenomenon. Researchers at AMOLF were the first to investigate the role of memory for this phenomenon in an oil-filled optical microcavity. The effects of slow non-linearity (i.e. memory) on stochastic resonance were never considered before, but these experiments suggest that stochastic resonance becomes robust to variations in the signal frequency when systems have memory. This has implications in many fields of physics and energy technology. In particular, the scientists numerically show that introducing slow nonlinearity in a mechanical oscillator harvesting energy from noise can increase its efficiency tenfold. They have published their findings in Physical Review Letters on May 27th.

NEW MICROSCOPY METHOD REACHES DEEPER INTO THE LIVING BRAIN

Researchers have developed a new technique that allows microscopic fluorescence imaging at four times the depth limit imposed by light diffusion. Fluorescence microscopy is often used to image molecular and cellular details of the brain in animal models of various diseases but, until now, has been limited to small volumes and highly invasive procedures due to intense light scattering by the skin and skull.

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SLUSHY ICEBERG AGGREGATES CONTROL CALVING TIMING ON GREENLAND’S JAKOBSHAVN ISBRÆ

Shortly before Jakobshavn Isbræ, a tidewater glacier in Greenland, calves massive chunks of ice into the ocean, there’s a sudden change in the slushy collection of icebergs floating along the glacier’s terminus, according to a new paper led by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder. The work, published in Nature Geoscience, shows that a relaxation in the thick aggregate of icebergs floating at the glacier-ocean boundary occurs up to an hour before calving events. This finding may help scientists better understand future sea-level rise scenarios and could also help them predict when major episodes of calving are about to occur.

BETTER PEATLAND MANAGEMENT COULD CUT HALF A BILLION TONS OF CARBON

Half a billion tonnes of carbon emissions could be cut from Earth’s atmosphere by improved management of peatlands, according to research partly undertaken at the University of Leicester.

KEEPING MORE AMMONIUM IN SOIL COULD DECREASE POLLUTION, BOOST CROPS

Modern-day agriculture faces two major dilemmas: how to produce enough food to feed the growing human population and how to minimize environmental damage associated with intensive agriculture. Keeping more nitrogen in soil as ammonium may be one key way to address both challenges, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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EXPERIMENTS VALIDATE THE POSSIBILITY OF HELIUM RAIN INSIDE JUPITER AND SATURN

Nearly 40 years ago, scientists first predicted the existence of helium rain inside planets composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, such as Jupiter and Saturn. However, achieving the experimental conditions necessary to validate this hypothesis hasn’t been possible—until now.

BLACK HOLE SIMULATIONS PROVIDE BLUEPRINT FOR FUTURE OBSERVATIONS

Astronomers continue to develop computer simulations to help future observatories better home in on black holes, the most elusive inhabitants of the universe.

30-YEAR STELLAR SURVEY CRACKS MYSTERIES OF GALAXY’S GIANT PLANETS

Current and former astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have wrapped up a massive collaborative study that set out to determine if most solar systems in the universe are similar to our own. With the help of W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi, the 30-year planetary census sought to find where giant planets tend to reside relative to their host stars.

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ZERO-CARBON ENERGY FROM SEAWATER NOW A STEP CLOSER

Researchers at McGill University have demonstrated a technique that could enable the production of robust, high-performance membranes to harness an abundant source of renewable energy.

RESEARCH TEAM DISCOVERS THAT IT TAKES SOME HEAT TO FORM ICE ON GRAPHENE

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the research team details the complex physical processes at work to understand the chemistry of ice formation. The molecular-level perspective of this process may help in predicting the formation and melting of ice, from individual crystals to glaciers and ice sheets. The latter being crucial to quantify environmental transformation in connection with climate change and global warming.

HIGH-CAPACITY PSEUDOCAPACITIVE ELECTRODES BY VALENCE ENGINEERING DEVELOPED FOR DESALINATION

Recently, the researchers from Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences used valence engineering to develop three manganese oxides as electrodes with different Mn valences for high-performance capacitive desalination.

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TEAM BUILDS FIRST HACKER-RESISTANT CLOUD SOFTWARE SYSTEM

Whenever you buy something on Amazon, your customer data is automatically updated and stored on thousands of virtual machines in the cloud. For businesses like Amazon, ensuring the safety and security of the data of its millions of customers is essential. This is true for large and small organizations alike. But up to now, there has been no way to guarantee that a software system is secure from bugs, hackers, and vulnerabilities.

SHAPE-SHIFTING COMPUTER CHIP THWARTS AN ARMY OF HACKERS

We have developed and tested a secure new computer processor that thwarts hackers by randomly changing its underlying structure, thus making it virtually impossible to hack.

MORE EFFICIENT LIDAR SENSING FOR SELF-DRIVING CARS

If you see a self-driving car out in the wild, you might notice a giant spinning cylinder on top of its roof. That’s a lidar sensor, and it works by sending out pulses of infrared light and measuring the time it takes for them to bounce off objects. This creates a map of 3D points that serve as a snapshot of the car’s surroundings.

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RICE PHYSICISTS’ RAMBO REVEALS MAGNETIC PHENOMENON USEFUL FOR QUANTUM SIMULATION AND SENSING

Sometimes things are a little out of whack, and it turns out to be exactly what you need.

AS WATER SOURCES BECOME SCARCE, UNDERSTANDING EMERGING SUBSURFACE CONTAMINANTS IS KEY

In the last year, one thing has become clear: we cannot live life without risk. In fact, every part of our daily routines became subject to analysis: How risky is the action and is its value worth the potential cost?

PROBING DEEPER INTO ORIGINS OF COSMIC RAYS

Cosmic rays are high-energy atomic particles continually bombarding Earth’s surface at nearly the speed of light. Our planet’s magnetic field shields the surface from most of the radiation generated by these particles. Still, cosmic rays can cause electronic malfunctions and are the leading concern in planning for space missions.

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WESTERN FIRES ARE BURNING HIGHER IN THE MOUNTAINS AT UNPRECEDENTED RATES IN A CLEAR SIGN OF CLIMATE CHANGE

The Western U.S. appears headed for another dangerous fire season, and a new study shows that even high mountain areas once considered too wet to burn are at increasing risk as the climate warms.

THE EARLIEST ROUND-THE-WORLD MARINE RESEARCH VOYAGES GIVE NEW INSIGHTS ON CLIMATE CHANGE

For the first time, scientists have used ocean measurements taken on research voyages almost 150 years ago to learn more about how human activity has impacted climate change.

SATELLITES MAY HAVE UNDERESTIMATED WARMING IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE

New research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) climate scientists and collaborators shows that satellite measurements of the temperature of the troposphere (the lowest region of the atmosphere) may have underestimated global warming over the last 40 years.

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MAPPING THE LOCAL COSMIC WEB: DARK MATTER MAP REVEALS HIDDEN BRIDGES BETWEEN GALAXIES

A new map of dark matter in the local universe reveals several previously undiscovered filamentary structures connecting galaxies. The map, developed using machine learning by an international team including a Penn State astrophysicist, could enable studies about the nature of dark matter as well as about the history and future of our local universe.

PACIFIC READIES FOR ‘SUPER BLOOD MOON’ CELESTIAL SHOW

Stargazers across the Pacific Rim can cast their eyes skyward on Wednesday night and behold a “Super Blood Moon”, as the heavens align to bring a rare celestial twin treat.

PREBIOTIC ETHANOLAMINE FOUND IN A MOLECULAR CLOUD NEAR THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY

An international team of researchers has found evidence of prebiotic ethanolamine (NH2CH2CH2OH) in a molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of the amino alcohol and why they believe it could have contributed to the development of life on earth.

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SOFT X-RAY METHOD PROMISES NANOCARRIER BREAKTHROUGHS FOR SMART MEDICINE

Before the huge potential of tiny nanocarriers for highly targeted drug delivery and environmental clean-up can be realized, scientists first need to be able to see them.

SILVER ATTACKS BACTERIA, GETS ‘CONSUMED’

For millennia, silver has been utilized for its antimicrobial and antibacterial properties. Although its use as a disinfectant is widely known, the effects of silver’s interaction with bacteria on the silver itself are not well understood.

RESEARCH TEAM DEVELOPS SELF-HEALING QUANTUM EMITTER WITH UNPRECEDENTED BRIGHTNESS

Perovskite quantum dots are the rising stars of quantum emitters, but their inherent instability has hampered their development. Professor Hao-Wu Lin of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Associate Professor Chih-Sung Chuu of the Department of Physics, and Professor Richard Schaller of the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States have jointly developed a perovskite quantum emitter with high stability and self-healing ability by a self-developed, simple, and economical procedure—spray-synthesis method. The unprecedented single-photon brightness of these quantum dots breaks the world-record, which makes them become the brightest room-temperature quantum emitter materials and constitute a major breakthrough in both quantum communication and quantum computing.

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THE MIT HUMANOID ROBOT: A DYNAMIC ROBOTIC THAT CAN PERFORM ACROBATIC BEHAVIORS

Creating robots that can perform acrobatic movements such as flips or spinning jumps can be highly challenging. Typically, in fact, these robots require sophisticated hardware designs, motion planners and control algorithms.

USING WASTE HEAT TO POWER AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

In his most recent published research, appearing in Applied Thermal Engineering, City, University of London’s Dr. Martin White explores a novel organic Rankine cycle system, based on a two-phase expansion through numerical simulations of the system.

GREEN ENERGY MAY REQUIRE INCREASED MINING IN THE U.K. IN THE SHORT TERM, EXPERTS SAY

As countries race to become carbon neutral, a new commentary from Prof Richard Herrington, Head of Earth Sciences Department at the Natural History Museum, has examined the cost of our green future and concludes that we may need accept an increase in UK mining in the short term.

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EVIDENCE FOUND OF SUPERFLUIDITY IN EXTREMELY COLD 2D GAS OF FERMIONS

A team of researchers working at the Institut für Laserphysik, Universität Hamburg, has found evidence of superfluidity in an extremely cold 2D gas of fermions. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their work with a 2D Fermi gas and what they learned from it.

NEW QUANTUM MATERIAL DISCOVERED

In everyday life, phase transitions usually have to do with temperature changes—for example, when an ice cube gets warmer and melts. But there are also different kinds of phase transitions, depending on other parameters such as magnetic field. In order to understand the quantum properties of materials, phase transitions are particularly interesting when they occur directly at the absolute zero point of temperature. These transitions are called “quantum phase transitions” or a “quantum critical points.”

GENERATING ELECTRICITY FROM HEAT USING A SPIN SEEBECK DEVICE

Thermoelectric (TE) conversion offers carbon-free power generation from geothermal, waste, body or solar heat, and shows promise to be the next-generation energy conversion technology. At the core of such TE conversion, there lies an all solid-state thermoelectric device which enables energy conversion without the emission of noise, vibrations, or pollutants. To this, a POSTECH research team proposed a way to design the next-generation thermoelectric device that exhibits remarkably simple manufacturing process and structure compared to the conventional ones, while displaying improved energy conversion efficiency using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE).

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RESEARCHERS FIND GREENLAND GLACIAL MELTWATERS RICH IN MERCURY

New research shows that concentrations of the toxic element mercury in rivers and fjords connected to the Greenland Ice Sheet are comparable to rivers in industrial China, an unexpected finding that is raising questions about the effects of glacial melting in an area that is a major exporter of seafood.

SURGE IN NITROGEN HAS TURNED SARGASSUM INTO THE WORLD’S LARGEST HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM

For centuries, pelagic Sargassum, floating brown seaweed, have grown in low nutrient waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, supported by natural nutrient sources like excretions from fishes and invertebrates, upwelling and nitrogen fixation. Using a unique historical baseline from the 1980s and comparing it to samples collected since 2010, researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute and collaborators have discovered dramatic changes in the chemistry and composition of Sargassum, transforming this vibrant living organism into a toxic “dead zone.”

SYNCHROTRON X-RAY EXPERIMENT REVEALS A SMALL NUDGE WITH BIG CONSEQUENCES

In a study published in the Nature Research journal Communications Materials, QUT researchers Dr. Christoph Schrank, Dr. Oliver Gaede, from the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Master of Science graduate Katherine Gioseffi teamed up with the Australian Synchrotron and colleagues from the University of New South Wales and the University of Warsaw to study how gypsum dehydrates much faster under pressure.

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CHINA’S MARS ROVER STARTS ROAMING THE RED PLANET

China’s Mars rover drove from its landing platform and began exploring the surface on Saturday, state-run Xinhua news agency said, making the country only the second nation to land and operate a rover on the Red Planet.

OBSERVATIONS SHED MORE LIGHT ON THE PROPERTIES OF PULSAR PSR J0740+6620

An international team of astronomers has carried out X-ray observations of a massive millisecond pulsar known as PSR J0740+6620. Results of the observational campaign, presented in a paper published May 14 on the arXiv pre-print repository, deliver important information regarding the properties of this pulsar.

MILKY WAY NOT UNUSUAL, ASTRONOMERS FIND

The first detailed cross-section of a galaxy broadly similar to the Milky Way, published today, reveals that our galaxy evolved gradually, instead of being the result of a violent mash-up. The finding throws the origin story of our home into doubt.

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THE BIRTH OF A SUBNANOMETER-SIZED SOCCER BALL

Ever since the existence of molecules was proven and molecular reactions were predicted, humans have wanted to visually observe how such events proceed. Such observations of single-molecule reactions are highly important for the fundamental understanding of chemical sciences, which would aid in the development of novel catalysts, materials, or drugs, and help us decipher the complex biochemical processes. However, this was not possible for the longest time in modern chemistry, and so far the information of dynamical processes on the nanometer scale was obtained only from indirect methods because molecules were too small to be visualized.

RESEARCHERS FIRST SYNTHESIZE CONJOINED BISMACROCYCLE WITH ALL PHENYLENE UNITS

The research team led by Prof. Du Pingwu from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) first successfully synthesized an all-phenylene bismacrocycle (bis- means two) with Siamese-twin structure and used fullerene as guest molecules to assemble a peanut-shaped supramolecular complex. This study was published in Angewandte Chemie.

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RESEARCHERS CREATE NEW ZINC-AIR POUCH CELLS

Zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are among the most promising next-generation battery technologies due to their many advantageous characteristics. Most notably, these batteries have unique half-open structures, a significant theoretical energy density (1,086 and 1,370 Wh kg−1 when including and excluding oxygen, respectively), flexible electrodes and an inherently aqueous electrolyte. Moreover, in contrast with other materials used in batteries, Zinc (Zn) is less harmful for the environment and more abundant.

STUDY TESTS VIABILITY OF TESLA’S 100-YEAR OLD PATENTED DEVICE

A valve invented by engineer Nikola Tesla a century ago is not only more functional than previously realized, but also has other potential applications today, a team of researchers has found after conducting a series of experiments on replications of the early 20th-century design.

US AIR FORCE AUTONOMOUS DRONE SKYBORG COMPLETES FIRST FLIGHT

Last month, the United States Air Force successfully test flew an unnamed aerial vehicle (UAV) called Skyborg, operating on an autonomous hardware/software suite, for the very first time.

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DIAMONDS ENGAGE BOTH OPTICAL MICROSCOPY AND MRI FOR BETTER IMAGING

When doctors or scientists want to peer into living tissue, there’s always a trade-off between how deep they can probe and how clear a picture they can get.

QUANTUM COMPUTING: COLD CHIPS CAN CONTROL QUBITS

Researchers and engineers from QuTech in the Netherlands and from Intel Corp., jointly designed and tested a chip to control qubits that can operate at extremely low temperatures, and opens the door to solving the “wiring bottleneck,” an important step toward a scalable quantum computer. Their results are published in the scientific journal Nature.

RESEARCHERS DEVELOP ALGORITHM TO SEE INSIDE MATERIALS WITH SUBATOMIC PARTICLES

The University of Kent’s School of Physical Sciences, in collaboration with the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the Universities of Cardiff, Durham and Leeds, have developed an algorithm to train computers to analyze signals from subatomic particles embedded in advanced electronic materials.

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PERMAFROST CARBON FEEDBACKS THREATEN GLOBAL CLIMATE GOALS

Since it was first signed more than five years ago, the Paris Agreement has set the bar for the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, with more than 70 countries taking on ambitious nationally determined contributions that exceed initial commitments laid out in the agreement. However, a new paper released today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues that the carbon budget these commitments are based on does not take into account the latest science on Arctic feedback loops, and calls for global leaders to rethink emissions goals.

PART OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET MAY BE CLOSE TO A TIPPING POINT

Data from the Jakobshavn drainage basin of the Central-Western Greenland ice sheet reveals that the distinct mark of this part of the ice sheet has reached a tipping point. That is the conclusion by Niklas Boers from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany and Martin Rypdal from the Arctic University of Norway, after careful studies of the development in melt rates and ice-sheet height changes during the last 140 years. The two authors propose close monitoring of the Greenland ice sheet to assess the situation. The work, published in PNAS today, is part of the TiPES project, coordinated and led by the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

GREENHOUSE GASES ARE SHRINKING THE STRATOSPHERE

An international team of climate scientists has found evidence showing that human-created greenhouse gases have led to a shrinking stratosphere. In their paper published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the group describes analyzing data from satellites to create computer models.

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SUPERNOVA REMNANT G53.41+0.03 INVESTIGATED IN DETAIL

Astronomers have conducted detailed X-ray observations of a recently discovered supernova remnant (SNR) known as G53.41+0.03. Results of the observational campaign provide important insights into the properties of this object. The study was detailed in a paper published May 7 on the arXiv pre-print server.

SCIENTIST DATED SOME OF THE OLDEST STARS WITH UNPRECEDENTED PRECISION

Scientists have succeeded in dating some of the oldest stars in the galaxy with unprecedented precision by combining data from the stars’ oscillations with information about their chemical composition.

CHINA LANDS ON MARS IN MAJOR ADVANCE FOR ITS SPACE AMBITIONS

China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, a technically challenging feat more difficult than a moon landing, in the latest step forward for its ambitious goals in space.

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FUTURE SPARKLES FOR DIAMOND-BASED QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY

Marilyn Monroe famously sang that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but they are also very popular with quantum scientists—with two new research breakthroughs poised to accelerate the development of synthetic diamond-based quantum technology, improve scalability, and dramatically reduce manufacturing costs.

DIRECT-ACTING ANTIVIRAL TO TREAT COVID-19 DEVELOPED IN QLD

An international team of scientists from the Menzies Health Institute Queensland (MHIQ) at Griffith University and from City of Hope, a research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases in the US, has developed an experimental direct-acting antiviral therapy to treat COVID-19.

A LiDAR DEVICE THE SIZE OF A FINGER NOW AVAILABLE

A nanophotonics-based LiDAR technology developed by a POSTECH research team was presented as an invited paper in Nature Nanotechnology, the leading academic journal in the field of nanoscience and nanoengineering.

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POLISH FIRM OPENS CUTTING-EDGE SOLAR ENERGY PLANT

A Polish company on Friday launched the world’s first industrial production line of solar panels based on groundbreaking perovskite technology, which could revolutionise access to solar power.

RARE EARTH SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS HAVE LONG-RANGE IMPACTS, COMPUTER MODEL SHOWS

Rare earth materials are essential to a variety of industries. A new study from Argonne explores the effects of supply disruptions such as mine shutdowns.

BEST WAYS TO CUT CARBON EMISSIONS FROM THE CEMENT INDUSTRY EXPLORED

A new Imperial report identifies alternative materials and carbon capture technologies as critical in decarbonising the cement industry.

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RESEARCHERS SEE ATOMS AT RECORD RESOLUTION

In 2018, Cornell researchers built a high-powered detector that, in combination with an algorithm-driven process called ptychography, set a world record by tripling the resolution of a state-of-the-art electron microscope.

NEW DETECTOR FINDS GAMMA RAYS FROM SURPRISING COSMIC SOURCES

Astrophysicist Cao Zhen opens a steel hatch on a windswept Tibetan Plateau and climbs down a ladder into inky darkness. His flashlight picks out a boat floating on a pool of purified water above thousands of glittering orbs the size of beachballs.

A NEW SPINTRONIC PHENOMENON: CHIRAL-SPIN ROTATION FOUND IN NON-COLLINEAR ANTIFERROMAGNET

Researchers at Tohoku University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have discovered a new spintronic phenomenon—a persistent rotation of chiral-spin structure.

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PLUTONIUM PARTICLES FROM NUCLEAR TESTING MORE COMPLEX THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT

More than 100 kg of highly toxic uranium (U) and plutonium (Pu) was dispersed in the form of tiny ‘hot’ radioactive particles after the British detonated nine atomic bombs in remote areas of South Australia, including Maralinga.

SAND’S URBAN ROLE DEMANDS KEY PART ON SUSTAINABILITY STAGE

Over 20 Indonesian islands mysteriously disappear. One of the world’s deadliest criminal syndicates rises to power. Eight cities the size of New York will be built every year for the next three decades. What connects them is sand, embedded in the concrete of nearly all of the world’s buildings, roads, and cities, the glass in the windows, laptops and phone screens, and COVID-19 vaccine vials.

ARCTIC SEA ICE SUCCUMBS TO ATLANTIFICATION

With alarm bells ringing about the rapid demise of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, satellite data have revealed how the intrusion of warmer Atlantic waters is reducing ice regrowth in the winter. In addition, with seasonal ice more unpredictable than ever, ESA’s SMOS and CryoSat satellites are being used to improve sea-ice forecasts, which are critical for shipping, fisheries and indigenous communities, for example.

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SALTS COULD BE IMPORTANT PIECE OF MARTIAN ORGANIC PUZZLE, SCIENTISTS FIND

A NASA team has found that organic salts are likely present on Mars. Like shards of ancient pottery, these salts are the chemical remnants of organic compounds, such as those previously detected by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Organic compounds and salts on Mars could have formed by geologic processes or be remnants of ancient microbial life.

TARDIGRADES SURVIVE IMPACTS OF UP TO 825 METERS PER SECOND

A pair of researchers at the University of Kent has found that tardigrades are able to survive impacts at speeds of up to 825 meters per second. In their paper published in the journal Astrobiology, Alejandra Traspas and Mark Burchell describe experiments they conducted that involved firing canisters containing tardigrades at high speeds at sand targets.

LANDING ON MARS IS DIFFICULT, OFTEN FAILS, AND WILL NEVER BE RISK-FREE

China’s rover Zhurong, named after the mythological fire god, successfully touched down on Mars on May 14—the first time that China has successfully landed a rover on the red planet.

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NANOPARTICLES: THE COMPLEX RHYTHM OF CHEMISTRY

Most commercial chemicals are produced using catalysts. Usually, these catalysts consist of tiny metal nanoparticles that are placed on an oxidic support. Similar to a cut diamond, whose surface consists of facets oriented in different directions, a catalytic nanoparticle also possesses crystallographically different facets—and these facets can have different chemical properties.

GREEN LIGHT ON GOLD ATOMS: NANO-ANTENNAS MAKE NANO-DEFECTS VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Because individual atoms or molecules are 100 to 1000 times smaller than the wavelength of visible light, it is notoriously difficult to collect information about their dynamics, especially when they are embedded within larger structures.

NEW METHOD FOR OBSERVES GRAPHENE GROWING USING STANDARD ELECTRON MICROSCOPE

Researchers from the University of Surrey have revealed a new method that enables common laboratory scanning electron microscopes to see graphene growing over a microchip surface in real time.

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