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A novel path to fusion ignition: Heat first, then add fuel
Princeton UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Physical Review Letters
Wearable nanotech could combat nerve agents
Northwestern UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
New material could be added to clothing to negate a fatal nerve agent. Melanin inspired by fungi could be added to the dying process of clothes to make them safer for farmers and soldiers alike. Within 10 minutes, the amount of the potentially deadly chemical is cut in half.
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- ACS Nano
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Synthetic Biology Centre for Predictive Materials, European Office of Aerospace Research and Development
University of Central Florida researcher discovers experimental evidence of new type of magnetism
University of Central FloridaPeer-Reviewed Publication
UCF researchers and collaborators experimentally identified signatures of altermagnetism in a layered material. The emerging form of magnetism can avoid disruptive magnetic fields while offering properties that could enable thenext-generation computing.
The findings, published in Nature Communications, could help scientists develop faster, smaller and more energy-efficient electronic and spintronic devices for next-generation computing and data storage.
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- Nature Communications
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- Army Research Office
Stowers scientists uncover a hidden blueprint in aphids, providing a way to predict what AI couldn't solve alone
Stowers Institute for Medical ResearchPeer-Reviewed Publication
Thousands of rapidly evolving aphid proteins initially resisted both conventional sequence comparisons and AlphaFold2. By sequencing closely related aphid species and supplying the missing evolutionary context, researchers uncovered a shared structural blueprint across approximately 2,400 proteins and established a method that may help scientists study other fast-evolving proteins involved in immunity, host-parasite interactions, and agriculture.
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Quantum device simulates matter popping into existence
Duke UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
A research team led by faculty at the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) has observed string-breaking dynamics related to particle-antiparticle formation on a quantum simulator, one of the first in the quantum-physics field.
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- Nature Physics
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Amazon Web Services
Semiconductor, nuclear industries poised for green boost thanks to chemistry breakthrough
Oregon State UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
Oregon State University scientists have patented a better and more eco-friendly process for separating two metals that are critical in their pure forms for the semiconductor and atomic energy industries.
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- Journal of the American Chemical Society
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- M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Toward physical AI: When the hardware becomes the neural network
California NanoSystems InstitutePeer-Reviewed Publication
UCLA helped launch a complementary approach to computing in which richly connected, self-organized networks of nanowires or nanoparticles act as hardware-based neural networks.
Inspired by the brain, this approach is well-suited for processing complex data quickly and energy-efficiently.
A forward-looking article in Nature Reviews Physics explores these self-organized networks and their potential to complement cloud computing by handling sensor data locally in applications such as smart devices, autonomous vehicles, industrial robots and satellites.
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- Nature Reviews Physics
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- European Research Council