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Phys.org / Ultrafast beam-steering breakthrough

In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent ...

11 minutes ago in Physics
Medical Xpress / Runaway immune reactions can cause long COVID breathing problems

Stanford Medicine researchers have found a mechanism behind one of the most common symptoms of long COVID—shortness of breath. Post COVID-19 breathing problems are caused by a condition known as lung fibrosis, when damaged ...

Phys.org / Study: More widespread species benefit from anthropogenic changes while narrowly distributed species decrease

Human activities are accelerating biodiversity change and promoting a rapid turnover in species composition. A team of researchers has now shown that more widespread species tend to benefit from anthropogenic changes and ...

53 minutes ago in Biology
Tech Xplore / A robot that makes and launches paper planes to test designs

A group of engineers at CREATE Lab (Computational Robot Design & Fabrication Lab), EPFL, in Lausanne Switzerland, has designed and built a robot arm that is capable of designing paper airplanes, building them and then launching ...

31 minutes ago in Software
Recap / Best of Last Week—Oldest-known sea reptile, new version of chatbot, how exercise benefits the body

It was a good week for biology research as a team of Swedish and Norwegian paleontologists discovered the remains of the oldest-known sea reptile from the age of the dinosaurs, an ichthyosaur, on an Arctic island. Also, the ...

Week 12 2023 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Excess calories during development may alter the brain and spur adult overeating

People whose mothers are overweight during pregnancy and nursing may become obese as adults because early overnutrition rewires developing brains to crave unhealthy food, according to a Rutgers study in Molecular Metabolism.

35 minutes ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Researchers discover molecular basis for alkaline taste

Whether or not animals can taste basic or alkaline food and how they do it has remained a mystery until now. A research group led by Yali Zhang, Ph.D., principal investigator at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, recently ...

19 minutes ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / Biological BMI: Researchers dig deep into data to determine better measures of metabolic health

Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) researchers have constructed biological body mass index (BMI) measures that offer a more accurate representation of metabolic health and are more varied, informative and actionable than ...

19 minutes ago in Health
Phys.org / Tracking the emergence of an extensively drug-resistant Shigella sonnei strain in France

Shigellosis, a highly contagious diarrheal disease, is caused by Shigella bacteria circulating in industrializing countries but also in industrialized countries. Scientists from the French National Reference Center for Escherichia ...

26 minutes ago in Biology
Phys.org / Scientists open door to manipulating 'quantum light'

For the first time, scientists at the University of Sydney and the University of Basel in Switzerland have demonstrated the ability to manipulate and identify small numbers of interacting photons—packets of light energy—with ...

19 minutes ago in Physics
Phys.org / A new approach to lie detection: The devil is in the details

Figuring out a lie has never been easier: forget body language or how convincing the message is, just listen to how detailed and rich the story is. This is the core of a new approach to lie detection, say researchers from ...

19 minutes ago in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Researchers identify key source of T cell 'exhaustion'

Custom-made to attack cancer cells, CAR T-cell therapies have opened a new era in the treatment of human cancers, particularly, in hematologic malignancies. All too often, however, they display a frustrating trait inherited ...

13 minutes ago in Oncology & Cancer