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The Vinpok Bolt Brings back Magnetic Safety to Power Cords

Apple’s MagSafe power cords, launched alongside the newest MacBooks in 2006, was groundbreaking in as much as a power cord can be. It provided not only ease of...

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Clarifying study Defining Problems with Lithium-Air may still lead to Better Batteries

An MIT research team has studied in detail a promising next generation lithium battery know as a lithium-air or lithium- oxygen battery. This type of battery, which has...

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New Bacterium Discovered That Can Nucleate Ice

“Ice nucleation is a physical process that is of fundamental importance for the water cycle since it contributes to the formation of precipitation in clouds,” confirms Boris Vinatzer,...

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Larger Artificial Cell Membrane Help Scientists Observe Proteins

Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a new type of polymer that imitates a natural cell membrane in order for scientists to study the functioning and...

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Is Graphene the Key to Making Low-Cost Disease Diagnostic Systems?

Biomarker molecules are indicative of disease states and physicists at the University of Pennsylvania have just created a new graphene-based sensor that may soon be used as a...

HW News 3 min

Research Confirms Diabetes is Linked to Problems the Oral Microbiome

Results from a recent study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers confirms that oral microbiome is in fact affected by diabetes. Published in the journal Cell Host &...

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How to Make a Supercomputer?

Scientists have been trying to build the ultimate supercomputer for a while now, but it’s no easy feat as I’m sure you can imagine. There are currently three...

HW Guide 4 min

Scientists Use New Model to Better Predict Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts

Brown dwarfs are smaller than the Sun but larger than Jupiter and are relatively dim in comparison to many other objects in the night sky. Their climate tends...

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Researchers Discover Neurons are Much More Flexible Than We Thought

It was once believed that memories are formed by hardwiring information into the brain in a highly stable manner. However, recent studies carried out at Harvard Medical School...

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Tedious Film Editing Could Soon Become a Thing of the Past

For those of you who have tried to edit your own film or video, you will know how painstaking it can be sifting through hours and hours of...

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Breakthrough in Gene Editing Comes as Scientists Correct Disease-Causing Mutation in Human Embryo

It’s an exciting time for gene editing currently as scientists achieve the first ever safe repair of a single-gene mutation in a human embryo. Using the CRISPR-Cas9 system,...

HW News 3 min

Are Twinkling Little Enzyme’s the Answer to Curing Cancer?

Enzymes are an important part of maintaining good health, and a new test confirms they could even help to pave the way to produce better treatments for cancer...

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