144 articles from FRIDAY 25.10.2019
Improved avenues to train plastic surgeons in microsurgery
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- 19/10/25 23:08
Microsurgery is an intricate and challenging surgical technique that involves using miniature instruments and sutures as fine as a hair strand aided by sophisticated microscopes. In plastic surgery, microsurgery is used to repair small damaged vessels and nerves following trauma, or in reconstructive procedures by moving a component of living tissue from one place of the body to another and...
Microscale rockets can travel through cellular landscapes with precision
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- 19/10/25 23:08
A new study shows how micro-scale 'rockets,' powered by acoustic waves and an on-board bubble motor, can be maneuvered through 3D landscapes of cells and particles using magnets.
Engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air
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- 19/10/25 23:08
A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool in the battle against climate change. The new system can work on the gas at virtually any concentration level, even down to the roughly 400 parts per million currently found in the atmosphere.
Platform for scalable testing of autonomous vehicle safety
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- 19/10/25 23:08
In the race to manufacture autonomous vehicles (AVs), safety is crucial yet sometimes overlooked as exemplified by recent headline-making accidents. Researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to improve the safety of autonomous technology through both software and hardware advances.
Study casts doubt on carbon capture
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- 19/10/25 23:08
Current approaches to carbon capture can increase air pollution and are not efficient at reducing carbon in the atmosphere, according to new research.
First in-depth study of marine fungi and their cell-division cycles
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- 19/10/25 23:06
A first deep dive into the diversity of marine fungi and their cell division cycles has revealed unusual cell cycles, cell division patterns, and polarity. The study broadens our knowledge of ocean diversity into the nearly unstudied Kingdom Fungi.
The secret to better beer could lie in cell signaling networks
Reusing yeast is an old brewer’s trick that saves time and money, but it eventually backfires. Cell biologists are trying to find out why—and the answers could conceivably combat aging as well.
New study finds taxi drivers improve earnings through trip selection
A new research study published in the October edition of the INFORMS journal Marketing Science (Editor's note: The source of this research is INFORMS) has revealed how taxi drivers use mobile hailing technology to select longer, more profitable trips to optimize their earnings, rather than seeking to increase the number of trips or working hours to achieve higher earnings.
Study casts doubt on carbon capture
One proposed method for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere—and reducing the risk of climate change—is to capture carbon from the air or prevent it from getting there in the first place. However, research from Mark Z. Jacobson at Stanford University, published in Energy and Environmental Science, suggests that carbon capture technologies can cause more harm than good.
Privacy experts slam National Bank asking customers for their PIN at other banks
Privacy experts are dumbfounded by the National Bank of Canada's policy of asking potential customers who want to open a new online account remotely to give them their account number and PIN for an account at another...
Electrospun fibers weave new medical innovations
When you visit Andrew Steckl's lab at the University of Cincinnati, you see a nondescript glass box that weaves together different fibers.
NASA observes Tropical Storm Kyarr form near southwest India coast
Tropical Storm Kyarr formed near the southwestern coast of India, and NASA's Aqua satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of the storm that revealed it organized quickly.
NASA-NOAA satellite shows wind shear affecting a changing Typhoon Bualoi
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean revealed that Typhoon Bualoi continued to look asymmetric because of ongoing wind shear. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center issued the final bulletin on Bualoi as it was beginning the transition into an extra-tropical cyclone.
NASA-NOAA satellite catches development of gulf Tropical Depression 17
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Gulf of Mexico and revealed that a low pressure area was developing into a depression. On Oct. 25, that low pressure area became Tropical Depression 17.
Tiny beetle named after climate activist Greta Thunberg
Scientists at Natural History Museum honour teenager’s ‘outstanding contribution’A tiny species of beetle discovered more than 50 years ago has been named after environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg.Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London have officially called the insect Nelloptodes gretae to honour the 16-year-old Swedish activist’s “outstanding contribution” in raising...
A Forecast for a Warming World: Learn to Live With Fire
SAN FRANCISCO -- Facing down 600 wildfires in the past three days alone, emergency workers rushed to evacuate tens of thousands of people in Southern California on Thursday as a state utility said one of its major transmission lines broke near the source of the out-of-control Kincade blaze in Northern California.The Kincade fire, the largest this week, tore through steep canyons in the wine...
Discovery in monkeys could lead to treatment for blindness-causing syndrome
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- 19/10/25 20:53
A genetic mutation that leads to a rare, but devastating blindness-causing condition called Bardet-Biedl Syndrome has been discovered in monkeys for the first time. The finding offers a promising way to develop gene and cell therapies that could treat people with the condition, which leads to vision loss, kidney disfunction, extra fingers or toes, and other symptoms.
Micromotors push around single cells and particles
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- 19/10/25 20:53
A new type of micromotor -- powered by ultrasound and steered by magnets -- can move around individual cells and microscopic particles in crowded environments without damaging them. In one demonstration, a micromotor pushed around silica particles to spell out letters. Researchers also controlled the micromotors to climb up microsized blocks and stairs, demonstrating their ability to move over...
Small magnets: Wide-ranging impact on information technology
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- 19/10/25 20:53
Physicists have identified a microscopic process of electron spin dynamics in nanoparticles that could impact the design of applications in medicine, quantum computation, and spintronics.
Electrospun fibers weave new medical innovations
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- 19/10/25 20:52
Scientist are developing new applications for a fabrication process called coaxial electrospinning, which combines two or more materials into a fine fiber for use in industry, textiles or even medicine. Electrospinning combines the amazing properties of one material with the powerful benefits of another.
NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022
NASA will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital resource ahead of a planned human return to the moon in 2024 to possibly use it for astronauts to drink and to make rocket fuel, the U.S. space agency said on Friday. "VIPER is going to assess where the water ice...
Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
Russian scientists tracking eagles got huge SMS bills when some birds flew to Iran and Pakistan.
Small magnets reveal big secrets
An international research team led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has identified a microscopic process of electron spin dynamics in nanoparticles that could impact the design of applications in medicine, quantum computation, and spintronics.
The Real History Behind The Current War
One irony of history is that while Thomas Edison invented the first practical and affordable light bulb, he didn’t invent a practical and affordable system for keeping those lights on nationwide. The distinction for developing the system for transporting electricity that way goes jointly to George Westinghouse, the inventor of the railroad air brake, and to Nikola Tesla, a visionary...