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A team of researchers led by Professor Sung-Joon Lee from Korea University’s Department of Food Bioscience and Technology has uncovered a new obesity prevention mechanism by olfactory receptors in the body.
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Hee Yeon Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2017.11.20 22:32
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Researchers at ETH Zurich University have come up with a scale for weighing individual cells.
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Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.11.20 22:29
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In many polymer-based materials indispensable to modern life, the elasticity of the material is key. From Lycra clothing to tire rubber, the ability to flex and stretch without being permanently altered is necessary to the functionality, and so too is the materials’ strength. Traditional polymer synthesis techniques increase strength, though they generally make a material more brittle. This month, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara published a method to bypass this trade-off.
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Ada Carpenter Junior Staff Reporter
2017.11.20 22:27
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Professor Oriol Romero-Isart and his team of researchers at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at University of Innsbruck, in conjunction with other institutions, have demonstrated the feasibility of a stable formation of levitating nanomagnets previously thought to be impossible.
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Juhoon Lee Assistant Editor
2017.11.20 22:21
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Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) School of Materials Science and Engineering have developed a new wearable solar thermoelectric generator (W-STEG) in their recent study.
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Hee Yeon Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2017.10.19 12:20
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A team of biochemical researchers at Johns Hopkins University has sparked the possibility of creating “soft” robots by using DNA sequences to cause shape-changing in hydrogels.
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Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.10.19 12:18
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University of Glasgow plasmonics researchers have developed a technique that could prove a secure, stable alternative to dye-based printing for specialised purposes.
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Ada Carpenter Junior Staff Reporter
2017.10.19 12:17
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At Case Western Reserve University, Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Kiju Lee has created a soft robot that may one day be used in surgery, assembly lines, or even space.
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Njoroge Maingi Junior Staff Reporter
2017.10.19 12:14
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A team of South Korean scientists from Hanyang University recently collaborated with scientists from the University of Texas to develop high-tech yarn that generates electricity.
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Hye-eun Jeong Junior Staff Reporter
2017.09.22 17:10
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Engineers at the University of New South Wales have announced a new architecture for quantum computing.
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Ada Carpenter Junior Staff Reporter
2017.09.22 17:08
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Collaborative research between Washington University School of Medicine and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine has recently shown that the Zika virus’ lethality can be maneuvered to kill malignant cancer cells in the brain.
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Hee Yeon Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2017.09.22 17:04
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In a recent study published on September 6 in the journal Nature Communications, biologists at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) claimed to have found a way to slow down aging.
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Njoroge Maingi Junior Staff Reporter
2017.09.22 04:49
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A team of researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology’s (POSTECH) Department of Mechanical Engineering has discovered a method to apply a superhydrophobic layer to materials in a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly way. Superhydrophobic surfaces have a wide array of applications in various industries. Existing methods of applying a superhydrophobic layer to materials
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Chan Ju Chong Junior Reporter
2017.05.11 00:01
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab recently came out with a mobile app that uses the smartphone camera to detect crucial signs of heart arrhythmia by capturing certain facial signs of the person that the application is being used on. The application uses Cardiio, a program from a previous app developed by the group. Cardiio, which shares its name with the Media Lab spinout t
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Hyunwoo Shin Junior Staff
2017.05.03 22:27
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Recently, spinach has shown the potential to be used differently to potentially save countless lives of people with critical health conditions. The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been carrying out extensive research in the field of regenerative science, aiming to devise a method to create organs and tissues that can substitute human organs. Recently, a biomedical team at the WPI success
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Hyunwoo Shin Junior Staff
2017.05.03 22:26
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A collaborative effort between Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) has led to the discovery of how the human antibody C10 prevents Zika virus infection, further pushing the quest for a cure of the virus that has plagued the world in recent years.The Zika virus first “docks” on the cell; the virus then initiates its “fusion” process
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Juhoon Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2017.03.31 20:05
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With development in medicine, antibiotic-resistant super bacteria have become one of humanity’s worst enemies. However, a team led by Dr. Serge Mostowy from Imperial College London and Professor Liz Sockett from the University of Nottingham may have found a solution for these foes. Using the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, the team tested its strength against drug-resistant S
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Kun-Woo Song Junior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:57
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In a recently published study, Stanford University biologists found that when exposed to stress, corals are subject to activate an ancient group of genes. Three coral colonies on Ofu Island, American Samoa, were studied for their reaction to stressful situations including high levels of oxygen, ocean acidity, and high temperatures. The days with highest temperatures were where a considerable diffe
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Duman Kuandyk Junior Staff Reporter
2017.03.29 22:56
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Researchers from the California Institute of Technology’s Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project have made great advances in the energy industry by developing a process that expedites the discovery of solar fuels. Solar fuels are cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels and are therefore highly sought-after. The splitting of water molecules i
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Chan Ju Chong Junior Reporter
2017.03.29 22:44
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A cooperative research initiative between researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Japan, and Germany has discovered a method to mitigate the effects of fatigue in metals by drawing inspiration from the human bone structure. Metal fatigue in parts that undergo cyclic stress often incur extra costs and cause unforeseen failures in industries such as the spacecraft and aircr
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Chan Ju Chong Junior Reporter
2017.03.29 22:40