Breakthrough

A new technique for detecting glial tumors, including glioblastoma, through a non-invasive blood test, has been validated in a study at Imperial College London. This innovation promises to improve early detection, personalize treatment, and increase survival rates for brain tumor patients by reducing the need for risky surgical biopsies.A simple blood test could help diagnose patients with the deadliest form of brain cancer, sparing them from undergoing invasive, highly risky surgery.In a world-first, the new technique…

A new camera system, capable of replicating how various animals perceive colors, has been developed by researchers. This system overcomes the limitations of traditional methods like spectrophotometry by using a multi-channel approach to accurately capture and display animal-perceived colors under natural conditions. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.comOpen-source camera and software system records natural animal-view videos with over 90% accuracy.A new camera system allows ecologists and filmmakers to produce…

Morphology and statistics of the fabricated 9PHEB samples after acid corrosion. (a) SEM image of the samples with a porosity of ~50%. (b) Statistics of the grain sizes. The average grain size is calculated to be 1.07±0.31 μm. Credit: Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202311870 In a giant leap for future hypersonic flight, Chinese scientists have turned to multi-scale technology to develop a revolutionary new…

Several innovations in the new sample rod including the sample holder enable temperature measurements with the highest precision. Credit: D. Kojda/HZBResearchers at HZB have created an innovative technique to precisely measure minuscule temperature variations as small as 100 microkelvin in the thermal Hall effect, overcoming previous limitations caused by thermal noise. By applying this technique to terbium titanate, the team showcased its effectiveness in producing consistent and dependable outcomes. This advancement in…

Bacteria often go dormant to avoid being wiped out by antibiotics or other threats, which makes treatment difficult. Now scientists have discovered a virus that can attack these sleeping bugs, clearing out infections effectively when paired with drugs.In hostile environments – such as when they’re exposed to antibiotics – bacteria can go into a form of hibernation, where they stop growing and dividing until things calm down. This makes it difficult to fully wipe them out and contributes to the growing problem of…

“Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and EvilImagine you’re a litigation partner at a law firm. You have a brand-new associate who seems to surpass all expectations: works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year; reads and absorbs millions of pages of material in a fraction of a second.What’s the catch? The associate is subject to random hallucinations and occasionally making things up out of whole cloth that are extremely convincing—but…

In the BLG double quantum dot used in this work, electrons (the blue spheres) have both an intrinsic angular momentum (spin, given by the arrows through the spheres) and a pseudo-​spin (valley, given by the rings rotating in opposite directions). Credit: ETH Zurich/Chuyao Tong Researchers in the Laboratory for Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich found evidence that bilayer graphene quantum dots may host a promising new type of quantum bit based on so-​called valley states.In quantum computing, the question as to what…

XRISM’s Xtend instrument captured galaxy cluster Abell 2319 in X-rays, shown here in purple. The background is a ground-based image showing the area in visible light. Credit: JAXA/NASA/XRISM Xtend; background, DSSJAXA’s XRISM mission provides a groundbreaking image of the Abell 2319 galaxy cluster, using X-ray and visible light to reveal its intricate structure and dynamics, enhancing our cosmic understanding.This pioneering, single-shot image is one of the first from JAXA’s XRISM mission. It shows a nearby cluster of…

Too Long; Didn't Read- Running compute jobs at a time and place when the electricity grid energy mix happens to be greener is not enough to reduce computing emissions. - To reduce their emissions, compute jobs need to run when demand is low; target stable electricity grids; and verifiably use curtailed electricity or run on genuinely additive renewable electricity. - The environmental challenge of computing is not energy efficiency, but energy demand. Because renewable energy can only power less than 13% of global…

Heat is the enemy of quantum uncertainty. By arranging light-absorbing molecules in an ordered fashion, physicists in Japan have maintained the critical, yet-to-be-determined state of electron spins for 100 nanoseconds near room temperature.The innovation could have a profound impact on progress in developing quantum technology that doesn't rely on the bulky and expensive cooling equipment currently needed to keep particles in a so-called 'coherent' form.Unlike the way we describe objects in our day-to-day living, which…