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How about saving 20+ percent of heating energy normally expended with a self-learning algorithm?

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Light microscopy image of nanowires, 100 to 1,000 nanometers in diameter, grown from cesium germanium tribromide (CGB) on a mica substrate. The CGB nanowires are samples of a new lead-free halide perovskite solar material that is also ferroelectric. (Credit: Peidong Yang and Ye Zhang/Berkeley Lab)

A simpler less expensive approach to solar cell manufacturing is also lead free

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A new neural network trained by MIT PhD student Yuzhe Yang and postdoc Yuan Yuan assesses whether or not someone has Parkinson’s from their nocturnal breathing. Credits:Image courtesy of researchers.

AI can can detect the presence and severity of Parkinson’s from breathing patterns

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New wearable microfluidic sensing technology can provide continuous monitoring for many health conditions

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Making stronger concrete with discarded PPE

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Harry Tuller and postdoctoral fellow Han Gil Seo in the Materials Research Laboratory. The two and colleagues report a simple way to significantly increase the lifetimes of fuel cells and other key devices. Photo: Hendrik Wulfmeier

A simple way to significantly increase the lifetimes of fuel cells brings them much closer to implementation

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Simple rubber band fix for surgical masks could help prevent thousands of infections and perhaps save thousands of lives

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Could solid-state refrigerants become a viable replacement for current air conditioning and other cooling technologies?

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Needle-free injection technologies use lasers to deliver medication painlessly

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Engineering and optimizing a bacteria to break down waste carbon dioxide to make valuable industrial chemicals.

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New capability allows the close monitoring of underground activity in geothermal reservoirs and sequestered carbon dioxide locations

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Making traffic jams a distant memory with new AI traffic lights

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“Humans and machine algorithms have complementary strengths and weaknesses,” says study co-author Mark Steyvers (right), UCI professor of cognitive sciences, here with fellow co-author Padhraic Smyth, UCI Chancellor’s Professor of computer science. “Each uses different sources of information and strategies to make predictions and decisions.” Steve Zylius / UCI

New and improved approaches to human-AI collaboration by combining machine and human predictions

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Storing big data in a small space using little energy

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Far-UVC light is highly effective at killing airborne viruses and bacteria in real room environments

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Breaking down plastic bottles into component parts using MOFs

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How about saving 20+ percent of heating energy normally expended with a self-learning algorithm?

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A new indigo dyeing technology for blue jeans that is environmentally friendly

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Power-generating windows get solar vells that could last 30 years

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A new gene therapy that might help protect us from cancer and dementia

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3D printed ultra-compact, high-power heat exchangers

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Solving a key obstacle that has limited widespread adoption of phase-change memory

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Using only a half-liter of salt water to generate 45 days of life

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Rapidly detecting infections in wounds with new low-cost sensors

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An automated vaccine filling machine increases vaccination throughput by 20 percent

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Making ammonia by combining sunlight and wastewater nitrate achieves a solar-to-fuel efficiency that is 10 times better than any other comparable technology

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New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field strength records paving the way for practical commercial carbon-free power

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We can do selective pollutant destruction for water treatment for the first time using single atom catalysts

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Needle-free injection technologies use lasers to deliver medication painlessly

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8 months ago

Engineering and optimizing a bacteria to break down waste carbon dioxide to make valuable industrial chemicals.

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5 months ago

New capability allows the close monitoring of underground activity in geothermal reservoirs and sequestered carbon dioxide locations

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11 months ago

Making traffic jams a distant memory with new AI traffic lights

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5 months ago

“Humans and machine algorithms have complementary strengths and weaknesses,” says study co-author Mark Steyvers (right), UCI professor of cognitive sciences, here with fellow co-author Padhraic Smyth, UCI Chancellor’s Professor of computer science. “Each uses different sources of information and strategies to make predictions and decisions.” Steve Zylius / UCI

New and improved approaches to human-AI collaboration by combining machine and human predictions

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5 months ago

Storing big data in a small space using little energy

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9 months ago

Far-UVC light is highly effective at killing airborne viruses and bacteria in real room environments

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Breaking down plastic bottles into component parts using MOFs

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One step toward a revolution in the global ammonia industry that also helps the environment

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The smallest-ever human-made flying structure: A winged microchip

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A new path to a personalized and precisely targeted battle against cancer

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How to give the endangered abalone an ultrasound

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Building a quantum computer atom by atom on silicon

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Getting us much closer to making fuel cell-powered vehicles and other fuel cell technologies a reality

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Take a deep breath: An effective SARS-CoV-2 vaccine by inhaler

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A way to make buildings significantly more energy efficient with a new heat storage material

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3D printed ultra-compact, high-power heat exchangers

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Dramatically improving the performances of lithium-oxygen batteries to compete with gas-powered vehicles

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High schoolers developed a filter (the inside of which is shown here) that attaches to a faucet and removes lead from tap water. Credit: Rebecca Bushway

An inexpensive filter developed by high schoolers removes lead from tap water and turns yellow when it needs changing

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A way to use light and oxygen to upcycle polystyrene which makes up one third of landfill waste plastic

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A route to inexpensive desalination

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7 months ago

A more nutritious and antioxidant-rich replacement for dairy and eggs in foods?

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9 months ago

Smartphone disease diagnosis moves closer with a new nanotech imaging tool

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Replacing petroleum-based aviation fuel with sustainable aviation fuel derived from a type of mustard plant can reduce carbon emissions by up to 68 percent

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A hydrogen fuel cell that uses iron instead of rare and costly platinum

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MIT researchers have developed a system that enables a robot to learn a new pick-and-place task based on only a handful of human examples. This could allow a human to reprogram a robot to grasp never-before-seen objects, presented in random poses, in about 15 minutes. Courtesy of the researchers

An easier way to teach robots new skills in only 10 to 15 minutes

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Quickly detecting sepsis using machine learning can save a lot of lives

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Restoring soils and ecosystems using micro-organisms

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Detecting deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy

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Faster ransomware detection with a new approach to the problem

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Identifying if a patient has cancer and if it has spread with a new blood test

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9 months ago

An inexpensive paper-based test that can rapidly identify multiple types of dangerous bacteria

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A cheap new way to capture and convert CO2 greenhouse emissions using liquid metal

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11 months ago

Smartphone-powered microchip for at-home medical diagnostic testing

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“Smart” natural food packaging infused with a cocktail of natural antimicrobial compounds extends the shelf life of food

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The novel detection platform is fast, accurate, and performs label-free imaging of virus particles by slowing down light CREDIT Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)

Detecting coronavirus using “slow light” to easily visualize viruses using an optical microscope

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Speeding up computation by up to 1000 times at 1 trillion operations per second

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Air filters which can kill bacteria, fungi and viruses including SARS-CoV-2 in seconds

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Predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory medicine, known as P4, gets a big privacy and security boost from cryptography

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A cure for Lyme disease?

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Solving a key obstacle that has limited widespread adoption of phase-change memory

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Using remote sensing to diagnose insect infestations in forests

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No more annual flu shot?

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A biosensor for personalized dosing of medications

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Identified: Specific drug targets within the neural circuits that encode memories could really help brain disorders

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An oxygen-delivering hydrogel could create a drug-free treatment for chronic wounds

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A first of its kind: A promising nose spray that could prevent and even treat COVID-19

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Ultra-scalable artificial synapse

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A chaos-based stream cipher that can withstand attacks from large-scale quantum computers

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Rapidly detecting infections in wounds with new low-cost sensors

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Plasma-based engineering is an inexpensive and environmentally friendly method of producing antimicrobial surfaces

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Disease proteins (target) are attached to a degradation tag (tag). Upon treatment with a tag-binding PROTAC drug, the target is signalled for removal by recruitment of the E3 complex that attaches the degrader signal ubiquitin (Ub).

Reimagining drug discovery

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The biofuel process gets much cleaner and less expensive

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8 months ago

Making plastic more degradable under UV light

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Reconstructed holographic images of a toy train (top) with holobricks and original image captured by a camera (bottom) Credit: CAPE

Making giant 3D highly realistic holographic images with stackable ‘holobricks’

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Self-cleaning bioplastics that break down rapidly once in soil

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A leap-ahead technology for generating terahertz radiation

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A microneedle patch to deliver COVID-19 DNA vaccine without refrigeration

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Extending battery life by 30 percent by bringing ‘dead’ lithium back to life

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High-performance sodium and potassium ion batteries using sustainably sourced cellulose

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A dual membrane redox flow battery for large scale energy storage

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Using relativity to secure data transfers

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$Choetsu up close. A rendering showing the silica layer api titanium nanoparticles spread throughout. These can pro\ bacteria being destroyed in the center. Credit: Hiroi et al.$

Rigid waterproof degradable coating for paper aims to reduce our dependence on plastic

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More sustainable pharmaceutical manufacturing by cutting waste and energy usage significantly

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10 months ago

If artificial intelligence is so smart can it play well with others?

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A new non-hormonal contraceptive that stops sperm in its tracks

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L. Boxberger/Fraunhofer IWU Vision of a deployment scenario for safe and powerful robot structures.

Close robotic proximity to humans just got safer and more powerful

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Making ammonia by combining sunlight and wastewater nitrate achieves a solar-to-fuel efficiency that is 10 times better than any other comparable technology

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Figure 1: Ionic communication: Cross-sectional schematic illustration of an ionic communication device consisting of an implanted transmitter (TX) electrode pair inside biological tissue and a receiver electrode pair (RX) on the surface of the tissue (top left). Frequency responses of ionic communication highlighting is capacity to operate at megahertz frequencies (top right). A 10-link ionic communication transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) array conforming to the surface of an orchid petal (bottom). Credit: Dion Khodagholy/Columbia Engineering

Using the body’s naturally occurring ions to help transmit data from implantable devices

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Quantum headache resolved on the way to the new supercomputer of the future

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Silicon particles in a lithium-ion battery protected by a polymer binder mesh Polymer binders can make lithium-ion batteries suitable for practical application in electric vehicles and other advanced electronics such as drones, thanks to the stabilizing effects they have on silicon anodes Image credit: Noriyoshi Matsumi from JAIST.

Significantly increasing the lifetime of lithium-ion batteries

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Parts printed with the MF3 prototype using a 0.4 mm diameter nozzle.

A way to 3D print large and complex parts at a fraction of the cost of current methods

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A new way to reawaken the immune system to fight cancer

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A new gene therapy that might help protect us from cancer and dementia

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Fast mass screening for Covid in public places could happen with a new breathalyzer

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Good vibrations: Cleaning solar panels without using water

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Energy efficient engine systems could soon become an industrial reality for ships

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“Reservoir computing” gets between 33 and a million times faster

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Self-repairing electronics start to get real

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THE FRICTION AND HAPTIC MODELS WORK IN TANDEM IN ORDER TO CREATE A TEXTURE WE CAN RECOGNIZE.

A new haptics method for computers to achieve that true texture

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1,000 + cycle lithium-sulfur batteries could quintuple electric vehicle ranges

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The copper thin film was grown using atomic sputtering epitaxy and then the mechanism behind its strong oxidation-resistance was revealed using theoretical models CREDIT Pusan National University

Replacing gold in semiconductor devices with atomically flat thin-film copper that won’t corrode

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New MSU research shows how biofuel crops can help mitigate climate change when grown on land of otherwise little agricultural value

How switchgrass, a biofuel crop, can mitigate effects of climate change when grown on marginal land

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The way to build silicon-based quantum devices compatible with current semiconductor manufacturing technology

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A new indigo dyeing technology for blue jeans that is environmentally friendly

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An inexpensive vaccine delivery breakthrough using barbeque lighter technology and microneedles

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A new method make mining operations more sustainable using much less energy and water

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Robotic surgery performed with no human help

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Using 3D printing to help heal wounds

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A tipping point toward self-sustaining fusion?

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A breakthrough in the ability to recycle plastics

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Is blockchain the most secure communications strategy for teams of robots?

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11 months ago

A way to significantly reduce the presence of airborne SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 wards

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The ability to analyze pandemics, like the one caused by COVID-19, before they spread like wildfire around the globe

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The BLIO technology explores a "genetic switch" to unlock oil production in microalgae. (Image by LIU Yang and ZHANG Peng)

Doubling the oil production capacity of industrial algae

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Modeled SP1-77 binding site on various SARS-CoV-2 variants. (A) The potential footprint of SP1-77 on the modeled RBDs from different SARS-CoV-2 variants in a top view. The RBD was shown in surface representation in gray with the SP1-77 footprint highlighted in green and the mutations in each variant in blue. The Fv region of SP1-77 was shown in ribbon diagram in green. Most mutations on spike variants were not located at the SP1-77 footprint. (B) Side view of a selected panel from A. (C) Structural comparison of the SP1-77 binding interface among the RBDs of wildtype G614, Mu and Omicron variants. The conservative mutation Arg346Lys in Mu preserved the salt bridge between the residue 346 in the RBD and the SP1-77 Asp95. The mutations in Omicron variant reconfigured the local conformation near the N343-glycan, which is on the edge of SP1-77 footprint. The RBD was colored in gray, the SP1-77 heavy chain was colored in green and the light chain was colored in light green. Mutations in the Mu and Omicron variants were shown in stick and ball model in blue.

A new broadly neutralizing antibody neutralizes all known coronavirus variants

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Using a reusable photocatalyst and sunlight to extract hydrogen gas at significantly less expense

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Leo Medrano, a PhD student in the Neurobionics Lab at the University of Michigan, tests out an ankle exoskeleton on a two-track treadmill. By allowing the user to directly manipulate the exoskeleton’s settings while testing it on a treadmill, preferences that are difficult to detect or measure, such as comfort, could be accounted for by the users themselves. Image credit: University of Michigan Robotics Institute

Doubling the oil production capacity of industrial algae

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Brain-inspired computers solve complex learning problems

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Getting more from biomass by combining solar energy and a chemical reactor

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