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AI and Supercomputers are Combatting COVID-19
LIVERMORE, Calif., March 27, 2020 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are contributing to the global fight against COVID-19 by combining AI, bioinformatics, and supercomputing to help discover candidates for new antibodies and pharmaceutical drugs to combat the disease. Backed by five high-performance computing (HPC) clusters and expertise in vaccine and countermeasure development, a COVID-19 response team of LLNL researchers from various disciplines has identified approximately 20 promising antibody
Team Develops High-Efficiency Laser Placed on Silicon Chips
JULICH, Germany, March 27, 2020 — Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich are one step closer to integrating lasers directly on silicon chips, allowing data to be transferred more quickly. Together with researchers from Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies (C2N) in...
Researchers Demonstrate Missing Link for the Quantum Internet
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 27, 2020 — Harvard and MIT researchers have found a way to correct for signal loss in quantum computing with a prototype quantum node that can catch, store, and entangle bits of quantum information. A quantum internet could be used to send unhackable messages,...
Dancing Electrons Solve Long-Standing Puzzle of Oldest Magnetic Material
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 23, 2020 — An international team of experimental and theoretical researchers has discovered fingerprints of the quasiparticles that drive the phase transformation in magnetite, according to a paper published March 9 in Nature Physics. Using an ultrashort laser...
Photonic Crystal Emits Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation at Optical Wavelengths
TROY, N.Y., March 23, 2020 — Since the late 19th century, scientists have understood that, when heated, all materials emit light in a predictable spectrum of wavelengths. But a material that appears to exceed the limits set by Planck’s law has been experimentally...
Researchers Call for Robots to Fight COVID-19
PITTSBURGH, March 23, 2020 — Robots conceivably could perform such tasks as disinfecting surfaces, taking temperatures of people in public areas and at ports of entry, providing social support for quarantined patients, collecting nasal and throat samples for testing, and...
High-Speed Microscopy Tracks Millisecond Voltage Changes in Neurons of Awake Mice
BERKELEY, Calif., March 23, 2020 — University of California, Berkeley, researchers have built a microscope that can image the brain of an alert mouse 1000 times a second and record the passage of millisecond electrical pulses through neurons. The new imaging technique combines...
Smartphone-Based System Tests Saliva for Infectious Diseases
CINCINNATI, March 20, 2020 — Engineers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have created a tiny portable lab that plugs into a smartphone. The lab, which is about the size of a credit card, can diagnose infectious diseases such as coronavirus, malaria, HIV, or Lyme. It can also...
Virus Testing Kits to Be Developed Using RNA Imaging Technology
BURNABY, British Columbia, March 20, 2020 — A Simon Fraser University (SFU) research team will be using RNA imaging technology it has created to develop coronavirus testing kits. The decision to apply the technology, called Mango, to COVID-19 testing is in response to a funding opportunity...
Device Uses AI, Thermal Imaging to Survey Public Areas for Flu-Like Illness
AMHERST, Mass., March 20, 2020 — A contactless, portable surveillance device, developed by a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), can capture crowd-level bioclinical signals directly related to physical symptoms of influenza-like illnesses from public waiting...
Chip-Based Quantum Key Distribution Could Secure High-Speed Networks
BRISTOL, England, March 19, 2020 — A research team at the University of Bristol has demonstrated chip-based devices that contain all the optical components necessary for quantum key distribution (QKD). The team showed that secure quantum key exchange could be accomplished between two...
Atomic-Scale Imaging Reveals Strength Capabilities of Thin Film
MINNEAPOLIS, March 18, 2020 — Researchers at the University of Minnesota have used high-resolution TEM microscopy to image the atomic structure of ultrathin zeolite nanosheets, which are used by industries as specialized molecular filters. The researchers observed...
Imaging Agent Illuminates Cancer and Surrounding ‘Hijacked’ Cells
ST. LOUIS, March 18, 2020 — Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine have developed an imaging agent that can identify multiple types of tumors as well as the surrounding normal cells that the cancer uses as a shield against attempts to destroy it. “This...
Supercomputing Centers Will Expedite Access to Fight Coronavirus
MUNICH, March 17, 2020 — Effective immediately, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), the alliance of Germany’s three national supercomputing centers, will help researchers working on COVID-19 research gain expedited access to computing resources. This includes...
CRISPR Technology to Target RNA Viruses Such as COVID-19
NEW YORK, March 17, 2020 — Researchers at the New York Genome Center and New York University have developed a new kind of CRISPR screen technology to target RNA. Many CRISPR-based genetic screens can only edit or target DNA, and cannot target RNA viruses like coronavirus or...
NIH Launches $1M Competition Targeting Global Health Via Hand-held Diagnostics
BETHESDA, Md., March 16, 2020 — To spur the development of noninvasive, hand-held, digital technologies to detect, diagnose, and guide therapies for diseases with high global and public health impact, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a Technology Accelerator...
Optomagnetic Technology Could Reduce Coronavirus Diagnostic Time
RAMAT GAN, Israel, March 16, 2020 — A technology developed at Bar-Ilan University, based on a combination of optics and magnetic particles, can rapidly test samples of patients potentially infected with the coronavirus. Current methods for diagnosing coronavirus take approximately one...
Light and Heat Combined to Create Biocompatible Microparticles
DURHAM, N.C., March 16, 2020 — Using light and heat, researchers at Duke University developed a technique for manufacturing biocompatible microparticles for potential use in drug delivery, diagnostics, and tissue engineering. According to research scientist Stefan Roberts, the...
AR Rapid-Deployment Kits Aid Training, Response to COVID-19
JERSEY CITY, N.J., March 13, 2020 — To help organizations collaborate and quickly train workers in R&D and manufacturing environments, augmented reality company Apprentice.io is sending dozens of its Tandem Rapid Deployment Kits to pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing...
Butterfly Wing Nanostructures Achieve Ultrablack Coloration
DURHAM, N.C., March 13, 2020 — A team at Duke University is studying butterflies with wings that are 10 to 100 times darker than everyday black objects. As little as 0.06% of the light that hits the ultrablack butterfly wings is reflected back to the eye. This percentage is close...
Demand for FLIR Temperature Screening Devices Rises Along with Number of Coronavirus Cases
WILSONVILLE, Ore., March 13, 2020 — In efforts to contain the highly contagious virus causing COVID-19, thermal cameras, set up at checkpoints or hand-held by personnel at airports, borders, and entrances to businesses, schools, and other institutions, are being used to screen large...
ETH Researchers Demonstrate 5-Meter-Long Microwave Quantum Link
ZURICH, March 12, 2020 — In the future, quantum links will connect clusters of quantum computers to form a local network. These links will need to support quantum mechanical superposition states (states that contain the logical values 0 and 1 at the same time). The longest...
Research Teams Offer New Insight into Mid-IR, Graphene-Based Metasurfaces
DAEJON, South Korea, March 12, 2020 — A team of researchers has described a method of designing metamolecules that incorporate two independently controllable subwavelength meta-atoms. This two-parametric control of the metamolecule secures the complete control of both amplitude and the...
Inverse Design Software Automates Design Process for Optical, Nanophotonic Structures
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 11, 2020 — A research team at Stanford University has created an inverse design codebase called SPINS that can help researchers explore different design methodologies to find fabricable optical and nanophotonic structures. Integrated photonics has many...
Lasers Could Lead Search for Water on Earth’s Moon
TUCSON, Ariz., March 11, 2020 — There are craters in the moon’s south pole that have remained dark for billions of years, but scientists have found evidence that the region may contain water. NASA has awarded nearly $1 million to eight university teams to develop methods to...

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