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Plants & Animals Apr 1, 2024

A frozen chunk of genome rewrites our understanding of bird evolution

An enormous meteor spelled doom for most dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But not all. In the aftermath of the extinction event, birds—technically dinosaurs themselves—flourished.

Optics & Photonics Mar 20, 2024

High-quality microwave signals generated from tiny photonic chip

In a new Nature study, Columbia Engineering researchers have built a photonic chip that is able to produce high-quality, ultra-low-noise microwave signals using only a single laser. The compact device—a chip so small, it ...

Nanophysics Feb 29, 2024

Magnetizing water drops to make them hop

A small combined team of material scientists from Sun Yat-sen University and Dalian University of Technology, both in China, has found that it is possible to make a single drop of water hop in desired ways by putting a magnetic ...

Materials Science Feb 23, 2024

Researchers design novel microfluidic module for controlling the porosity of manufactured materials

Porous materials are essential for many chemical processes, such as light harvesting, adsorption, catalysis, energy transfer, and even new technologies for electronic materials. Therefore, many efforts have been made to control ...

Biotechnology Feb 6, 2024

Pore power: High-speed droplet production in microfluidic devices

Over the past two decades, microfluidic devices, which use technology to produce micrometer-sized droplets, have become crucial to various applications. These span chemical reactions, biomolecular analysis, soft-matter chemistry, ...

Nanomaterials Feb 1, 2024

Aerosol jet printing could revolutionize microfluidic device fabrication

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) technologies, known for their high precision and rapid actuation, are essential to microfluidics and affect a broad spectrum of research areas. However, traditional fabrication methods are time-consuming, ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 16, 2024

Team develops a real-time photonic processor with picosecond latency for dynamic RF interference

Radar altimeters are the sole indicators of altitude above a terrain. Spectrally adjacent 5G cellular bands pose significant risks of jamming altimeters and impacting flight landing and takeoff. As wireless technology expands ...

Biotechnology Dec 23, 2023

Bioengineers building the intersection of organoids and AI with 'Brainoware'

Feng Guo, an associate professor of intelligent systems engineering at the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, is addressing the technical limitations of artificial intelligence computing ...

Analytical Chemistry Dec 12, 2023

Researchers review miniaturized electrochemical sensor technologies for rapid heavy metal detection

Heavy metals (HMs) are metals with high densities and atomic weights. Originating from geological processes or human activities, including mining, industrial production, and petrochemical plants, they are toxic to humans ...

Bio & Medicine Dec 8, 2023

Spinning up control: Propeller shape helps direct nanoparticles, researchers say

Self-propelled nanoparticles could potentially advance drug delivery and lab-on-a-chip systems—but they are prone to go rogue with random, directionless movements. Now, an international team of researchers has developed ...

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