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Quantum physicist Mickael Perrin uses graphene ribbons to build nanoscale power plants that turn waste heat from electrical equipment into electricity. When Mickael Perrin started out on his scientific career 12 years ago, he had no way of knowing he was conducting research in an area that would be ...
What Is Climate Resilience? Extreme weather, such as hurricanes, flooding, and drought appear more often these days. Exacerbated by drought, for example, wildfires have increased, burning millions of acres from California to Australia. Climate resilience is a way to protect ourselves from the effect...
What Is an X-Ray Light Source? To develop treatments to combat deadly infectious diseases, we need to understand the organisms that cause them. To design the next generation of electric cars, we need to create better, longer-lasting batteries to power them. To build more efficient, safer airplane en...
A Window Into the Body: Stanford Scientists Use Food Dye to Make Skin Temporarily Invisible
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Using common food dye, researchers make skin and muscle safely and reversibly transparent. Scientists at Stanford University have developed a groundbreaking technique using food-safe dye to make animal tissues transparent, enhancing the visibility of internal organs. This innovation has potential ap...
Rewriting Neuroscience: Possible “Foundations of Human Intelligence” Observed for the First Time
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For the first time, it has been confirmed that individual neurons represent the concepts we learn, regardless of the context in which they are encountered, challenging previous beliefs. A study led by Dr. Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, head of the Neural Mechanisms of Perception and Memory Research Group at...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released its first images, captured using the world’s largest digital camera, kicking off a 10-year mission to explore the changing universe in stunning detail. In just a few hours of test runs, the observatory recorded millions of galaxies, thousands of astero...