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New UK funding programme to distribute £109m to UK innovators

The UK Government has announced a new funding programme, worth £109m, for more than 100 of the UK’s top scientists to convert their innovative ideas into commercially available products and services. The new funding programme is targeted at researchers that...
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Scientist develop new multi-purpose antiviral bioactive material

Researchers from the University College London, UK, have published a paper in Applied Physics Reviews describing new methods of producing core-sheath polymer fibres to be used as an antiviral bioactive material. The core-sheath polymer fibres can function as a one-size-fits-all...
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Researchers develop precise temperature sensor using MXene

A layered material developed by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, acts as a precise temperature sensor by utilising the same principle used in biological ion channels. Human cells possess various proteins that act as channels...
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Researchers use silk to improve 3D printed hydrogels for tissue regrowth

A research team from Osaka University, Japan, has reprocessed silk into a biologically compatible component of bioinks, improving the structural fidelity of 3D printed hydrogels used in drug development and tissue regrowth. The research team is in the early stages...
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New hybrid supercapacitor to improve upon conventional batteries

Researchers from Graz University of Technology, Austria, have developed a safe and sustainable hybrid supercapacitor for the repeated storage of electrical energy. Limited safety, sustainability, and recyclability are key drawbacks of today's lithium-ion battery technology. In the search for alternative...
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for advancements in genome editing

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna for developing one of the most important genome editing tools, CRISPR. Charpentier and Doudna discovered the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors in 2012. Using these, researchers can...
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Researchers create nanoscale diamond needles to conduct electricity

An international team of scientists suggest that diamonds could conduct electricity when they are deformed to nanoscale needles. Using computer simulations, the team, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, and Skolkovo Institute of...
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Researchers produce megatesla order magnetic fields

Researchers from Osaka University, Japan, have discovered a novel mechanism, called ‘microtube implosion’, which demonstrates the generation of megatesla order magnetic fields. Since the 19th century, researchers have struggled to create strong magnetic fields in laboratories for fundamental studies and...
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New review analyses why hydrogen makes ferritic steel brittle

A new paper by researchers at the American Institute of Physics discusses how advances in science can help us understand why hydrogen makes ferritic steel brittle. As the global energy market shifts from fossil to more environmentally friendly energy sources,...
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New circuit can convert graphene’s thermal motion into electricity

Physicists at the University of Arkansas have developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene's thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current. The findings, published in the journal Physical Review E, are proof of a theory that the thermal...
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