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Phys.org / Light lets microswimmers switch between bacteria-like and algae-like propulsion
Physicists at Leipzig University and Charles University in Prague have developed a method for changing the swimming style of tiny artificial microswimmers in real time. They can make a single microscopic particle switch at ...
Phys.org / Improving urban flood forecasting with real-time hazardous rainfall detection
The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) announced that it will apply its early detection technology for quasi-stationary linear rainbands and sudden localized torrential rainfall to the Urban ...
Medical Xpress / New guidance puts diabetes distress assessment alongside glucose care for adults
The European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) has published its first evidence-based clinical practice guideline, focussing on the assessment and management of diabetes distress in adults with type 1 diabetes ...
Phys.org / Getting photons into shape for reliable quantum communication
The vast majority of modern quantum technologies—from quantum cryptography to the quantum internet to the quantum computer—rely on one essential element: the transmission of photons. Two qubits (two atoms, for example) exchange ...
Phys.org / Could expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal make Americans less safe?
A new report from the Brookings Institution presents evidence that increasing the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal could make nuclear crises more likely. This raises an important challenge to arguments that the U.S. must ...
Tech Xplore / Q&A: Will AI graduate from tool to lab member?
John Tsang, Ph.D., and members of his Yale lab, Jacob Kim and Ao Huang, recently asked whether AI immunologists are ready for prime time. Specifically, they were referring to large language models (LLMs) and whether they ...
Medical Xpress / Decline in childhood vaccination rates in Europe since COVID-19
Childhood vaccination coverage has declined across most European Union (EU) countries in recent years, reversing some of the substantial progress made since 1980, according to a study published in The Lancet Regional Health—Europe.
Phys.org / Magma repeatedly breaks and heals during eruptions, microscopic evidence suggests
Explosive volcanic eruptions can be as destructive as they are difficult to predict, launching pyroclasts—the fragments of magma and rock blasted from a volcano—into the air and surrounding areas. These particles can have ...
Phys.org / Climate change contributing to permafrost thawing and glacial thinning
An international team of glaciologists and climate scientists, including professor Bethan Davies from Newcastle University, carried out a rapid scientific analysis and identified the role of climate change and its impacts ...
Phys.org / Report on global water resources: Worldwide continents are drying up
The global water cycle is becoming increasingly unbalanced. Extreme droughts and floods are the result. This is shown in this year's report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on the state of global water resources, ...
Medical Xpress / Cancer drug pushes mutant blood stem cells to become short-lived immune cells
The biologic drug interferon-alpha can benefit patients with blood cancers called myeloproliferative neoplasms by forcing mutant blood stem cells to become shorter-lived white blood cells, according to a study by Weill Cornell ...
Tech Xplore / Flexible flight corridors let drones navigate cluttered spaces faster and more safely
Researchers at Durham University have developed a new drone navigation system that enables autonomous aircraft to fly faster, more smoothly and more safely through crowded and obstacle-filled environments. This leads to new ...
