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Dialog / Using lasers to bond semiconductor electronics components

Today, lasers are well-established in daily life, even if it is sometimes hard to tell what and where they are. As an example, we can find them in CD/DVD readers or medical applications like cancer and eye surgery, being ...

Dec 5, 2022 in Physics
Dialog / New hope for novel therapies has emerged from computational models

In the war between good and evil, I was there seeking to design powerful selfish strategies for investigating the defense mechanisms of cooperators. Surprisingly, the results serve a different domain of science. It gave me ...

Nov 21, 2022 in Biology
Dialog / The world's largest quantum chemistry dataset to empower new materials design and drug discovery

Predicting the properties of an object is a most natural task for machine learning (ML) algorithms, and molecules or crystals are not an exception. Every drug discovery or materials design pipeline depends on the ability ...

Nov 17, 2022 in Chemistry
Dialog / Unraveling electron transport dynamics in photosystem II under water deficit and heat stress in pearl millet

Heat and water deficit stresses tend to impede and restrict the efficiency of photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence and maximum photochemical quantum yield in plants based on their characteristic ability to interfere with ...

Nov 1, 2022 in Biology
Dialog / Rangewide analysis reveals climatic sensitivities and non-timber values of tall redwoods

Coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) has a narrow and fragmented distribution in western North America. Extreme resistance to fire and fungi allows redwoods to live more than 2,000 years and become the tallest trees on ...

Oct 31, 2022 in Biology
Dialog / Resolving 'Faraday's paradox': New experimental evidence on the influence of the test circuit

Unipolar induction is a specific form of induction that has caused much confusion among researchers and has been heavily debated in the literature, to the point that it has been deemed by some as paradoxical. After performing ...

Oct 13, 2022 in Physics
Dialog / Researchers leverage new machine learning methods to learn from noisy labels for image classification

The rapid development of deep learning in recent years is largely due to the rapid increase in the scale of data. The availability of large amounts of data is revolutionary for model training by the deep learning community. ...

Oct 12, 2022 in Technology
Dialog / Atom-economy and time-economy synthesis of diclofenac sodium in a desktop micro-chemical plant

In recent years, continuous flow chemistry has evolved into a powerful platform for molecular assembly that is making an impact on organic synthetic chemistry. Unlike conventional batch method, chemical transformations are ...

Sep 21, 2022 in Chemistry
Dialog / Reusable biosensors for the detection of harmful pathogens dispersed in potable water

Drinking contaminated water can lead to waterborne diseases, threatening the lives of many. Intentional contamination of a municipal water system represents a potential target for terroristic activity because of drinkable ...

Aug 29, 2022 in Nanotechnology
Dialog / Pooling strategies can reduce the cost of COVID-19 PCR tests, even at high prevalence

Large-scale testing and contact tracing play a fundamental role in the containment of COVID-19 outbreaks. The task is nevertheless rendered difficult by the existing limitations on test analysis facilities and trained personnel. ...

Aug 26, 2022 in Medicine & Health
Dialog / Testing a transparent superhydrophobic coating on face shields for enhanced protection against COVID-19

A face shield is personal protective equipment to prevent airborne transmission of COVID-19. These face shields are made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is hydrophilic. The respiratory droplets exhaled by an infected ...

Aug 11, 2022 in Physics
Dialog / Optimizing flow-induced vibrations of an elastically mounted cylinder

Fluid flow across a flexible or elastically mounted structure causes vibrations due to vortex shedding and other similar instabilities, like galloping. The flow-induced vibrations (FIV) are detrimental to structures like ...

Aug 10, 2022 in Physics