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Feb 11, 2024

Physicist uses harmless rays in skin cancer detection breakthrough

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

Terahertz radiation has several advantages over other imaging modalities, such as X-rays and ultrasound. It is non-ionizing, meaning it does not damage the cells or tissues of the body. It is also sensitive to water, which makes it ideal for detecting skin cancers, as they tend to have different water content and blood supply than normal skin.

Professor MacPherson and her team at the Department of Physics are developing a screening device that uses terahertz frequencies to scan the skin and produce high-resolution images that can identify suspicious lesions. The device is portable, fast, and easy to use and could be deployed in clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies.

Feb 11, 2024

Apple Vision Pro review: The spatial computing revolution is here, and I love it

Posted by in category: computing

This mixed-reality headset redefines the genre.

Feb 11, 2024

A scalable photoelectrochemical system for green hydrogen production

Posted by in categories: chemistry, engineering, solar power, sustainability

If realized using solar energy or other renewable energy, water splitting could be a promising way of sustainably producing hydrogen (H2) on a large-scale. Most photoelectrochemical water splitting systems proposed so far, however, have been found to be either inefficient, unstable, or difficult to implement on a large-scale.

Researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) recently set out to develop a scalable and efficient photoelectrochemical (PEC) system to produce green hydrogen. Their proposed system, outlined in Nature Energy, is based on an innovative formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI3) perovskite-based photoanode, encapsulated by an Ni foil/NiFeOOH electrocatalyst.

“Our group has thoroughly studied the challenges associated with practical solar hydrogen production,” Jae Sung Lee, Professor of Energy & Chemical Engineering at UNIST and co-author of the paper, told Tech Xplore. “As summarized in our most recent review paper, minimum 10% of solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency is required to develop viable practical PEC system, for which selecting an efficient material is the first criteria.”

Feb 11, 2024

Researchers discover one million new components of the human genome

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research have found nearly one million new exons—stretches of DNA that are expressed in mature RNA—in the human genome.

The findings were published in the journal Genome Research.

There are around 20,000 in humans that contain approximately 180,000 known internal exons. These protein-coding regions account for only one percent of the entire . The vast majority of what remains is a mystery—aptly referred to as the “dark genome.”

Feb 11, 2024

SpaceX Dragon carrying Ax-3 astronauts splashes down in Atlantic to end longest private spaceflight for Axiom Space

Posted by in category: space travel

At more than 21 days, the Ax-3 mission broke Axiom Space’s previous record from Ax-1.

Feb 11, 2024

More Agents Is All You Need

Posted by in category: futurism

Tencent presents More Agents Is All You Need.


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Feb 11, 2024

PenTest: Threat Hunting and Malware Analysis Case Studies

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Feb 11, 2024

Is the Universe infinite?

Posted by in category: space

As far as we can tell, there’s no limit to how far it goes on; only a limit to how far we can see. Could the Universe truly be infinite?

Feb 10, 2024

How to stop our immune systems from turning on us

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

From ‘inverse vaccines’ to repurposed cancer therapies, several potential cures for autoimmune diseases are showing serious promise.

Feb 10, 2024

Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences

Posted by in categories: education, neuroscience

Title: Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro-and educational sciences See… https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-021-00089-5 Abstract: Metacognition comprises both the ability to be aware of one’s cognitive processes (metacognitive knowledge) and to regulate them (metacognitive control)…


Fleur, D.S., Bredeweg, B. & van den Bos, W. Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro-and educational sciences. npj Sci. Learn. 6, 13 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-021-00089-5

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