A collaboration between chemical engineers and animal scientists has created a system for recovering valuable industrial chemicals from animal waste, representing a major step towards circularity and environmental sustainability.
As more people receive genetic testing after a cancer diagnosis, newer variants have been identified that increase risk of developing cancer. A new study led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center finds that patients with three of these variants face no extra risk of dying from their cancer.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center鈥檚 Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless collaboration between MD Anderson鈥檚 world-leading clinicians and scientists, bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic and back.
For women with early-stage breast cancer, breast-conserving therapy (BCT) including radiation therapy (RT) leads to progressive reduction in breast size over time, reports a study in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery庐, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
CUR congratulates Amelia Ahern-Rindell (University of Portland) and Winny Dong (California State Polytechnic University 鈥 Pomona) as they are appointed a 2025 CUR Fellow. Drs. Ahern-Rindell and Dong are to be honored for their leadership and service as role models for those involved in undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activities.
To make inorganic materials such as catalysts, industry mixes precursor powders and fires them in an oven. This often produces a mix of compositions and structures. In this study, researchers developed a new way to select precursors to increase yield and quickly validated their results using a robotic lab. The new recipe selection process obtained higher purity for 32 of the 35 target materials.
People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown that they can use stars and the remains they leave behind to conduct a special kind of archaeology in space.
Wave-particle duality and entanglement are cornerstone concepts in quantum physics, yet their exact relationship has long remained a mystery. Researchers from China and Singapore have forged a theoretical framework that unifies wave-particle behaviours with entanglement. By introducing conservation laws that bridge these quantum phenomena, they unveiled deep connections between them. These predictions were experimentally verified using silicon-integrated nanophotonic quantum chips, offering transformative insights into the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics.
Quasi-particles are collective quantum elements of condensed matter. They are foundationally important for understanding physics of materials and for technological applications of semiconductors. Using ultrafast optical pump-probe technique, scientists discovered a series of new spectral features that are not attributable to existing quasi-particles. By using advanced quantum many-body theories, these spectral features could be uniquely explained by the existence of a new quasi-particle called quadruplon, a genuine four-body composite particle, different from the known bi-exciton.