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Why scientists are making transparent wood

a potential sustainable material — The material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows, and more. Jude Coleman, Knowable Magazine – Dec 10, 2023 12: 15 pm UTC Enlarge / See-through wood has a number of interesting properties that researchers hope to exploit. Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: […]

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Marbled paper, frosty fireworks among 2023 Gallery of Fluid Motion winners

Enlarge / Harvard University graduate student Yue Sun won a Milton Van Dyke Award for her video on the hydrodynamics of marbled paper. Y. Sun/Harvard University et al. Marbled paper is an art form that dates back at least to the 17th century, when European travelers to the Middle East brought back samples and bound

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The quest to turn basalt dust into a viable climate solution

Mary Yap has spent the last year and a half trying to get farmers to fall in love with basalt. The volcanic rock is chock full of nutrients, captured as its crystal structure forms from cooling magma, and can make soil less acidic. In that way it’s like limestone, which farmers often use to improve

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Hubble back in service after gyro scare—NASA still studying reboost options

Enlarge / The Hubble Space Telescope viewed from Space Shuttle Atlantis during a servicing mission in 2009. NASA The Hubble Space Telescope resumed science observations on Friday after ground teams spent most of the last three weeks assessing the performance of a finicky gyroscope, NASA said. The troublesome gyroscope is a critical part of the

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FDA approves first CRISPR therapy—here’s how it works against sickle cell

historic — The landmark treatment turns on another blood protein that prevents sickling. Beth Mole – Dec 8, 2023 11: 27 pm UTC Enlarge / This digitally colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) revealed some of the comparative ultrastructural morphology between normal red blood cells (RBCs), and a sickle cell RBC (left) found in a blood

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A Guided Demo of Nanome Came With a Free Chemistry Lesson From Founders

Before my life as a technology journalist, I worked in a university’s biomedical engineering research lab. Every now and then, in my current career, I encounter something that I wish had been around 10 years ago. Nanome, an app for spatially visualizing molecules in MR and VR, is exactly such an experience. Meet Nanome Nanome

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Swiss scientists figured out how to stop your glasses from fogging up

Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a special coating that prevents the lenses in glasses from fogging up. Apparently, not all heroes wear capes. This has been a problem since the advent of optical lenses, but it’s fair to say it reached a peak during the pandemic when everyone wearing glasses found out the hard way that

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European MRI study provides experimental evidence indicating our brains are quantum

We’ve long suspected the human brain is a quantum computer but we’ve never had any actual evidence to back this theory up. That is, until now. A pair of researchers from Trinity College in Dublin and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw recently published what may turn out to be landmark research in the

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