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Neural Network Helps Design Brand New Proteins

WASHINGTON, August 29, 2023 – With their intricate arrangements and dynamic functionalities, proteins perform a plethora of biological tasks by employing unique arrangements of simple building blocks […]

Enhanced Arsenic Detection in Water, Food, Soil

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2023 – It is a cruel paradox that on a planet with a surface mostly covered by water, hundreds of millions of people don’t […]

Nanopore-Based Sensing Device Explores Neurodegenerative Diseases

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2023 – Tau and tubulin proteins are one of the leading causes of many neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Most of neurodegenerative […]

Ultrathin Solar Cells Promise Improved Satellite Performance

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2022 – Most space satellites are powered by photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity. Exposure to certain types of radiation present in orbit […]

Low-Cost Disease Diagnosis by Mapping Heart Sounds

WASHINGTON, August 30, 2022 – Aortic valve stenosis occurs when the aortic valve narrows, constricting blood flow from the heart through the artery and to the entire […]

Harvesting Resources on Mars with Plasmas

WASHINGTON, August 16, 2022 – An international team of researchers came up with a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the Martian environment. It’s a […]

Urban Magnetic Fields Reveal Clues about Energy Efficiency, Pollution

WASHINGTON, May 31, 2022 – Examining a city’s magnetic footprint can be used to monitor the health of those cities, including a possible early warning system for […]

Almost Ready for Prime Time: Deep UV Photodetectors Head to Real-World Testing

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2022 – Numerous devices and detectors sense and catalog deep ultraviolet frequencies that the Earth’s ozone layer otherwise absorbs. Most solar-blind space-borne imaging platforms […]

Plasma-Based Engineering Creates Contact-Killing, Antifouling, Drug-Release Surfaces

WASHINGTON, January 4, 2022 — The deepening concern over antibiotic-resistant infections, coupled with prevailing hospital-acquired infections from surgical tools, implants, and heavily touched surfaces, has ramped up […]