Kathmandu — A national biotechnology hackathon is set to take place in Nepal later this month, aiming to generate innovative solutions to the country’s food system challenges. The three-day event, Genome Biothon 2026, will run…
Bird Feathers Inspire Researchers to Produce Vibrant New…
A Nagoya University-led research team mimics the rich color of bird plumage and demonstrates new ways to control how light interacts with materials. [caption id="attachment_12250" align="alignnone" width="1240"] Bio-inspired bright structurally colored colloidal amorphous array enhanced…
Mysterious Molecule’s Function in Skin Cancer Identified
New research from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) at Lake Nona uncovers the modus operandi of a mysterious molecule called SPRIGHTLY that has been previously implicated in colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma.…
Unpolarized single-photon generation with true randomness from diamond
The Tohoku University research group of Professor Keiichi Edamatsu and Postdoctoral fellow Naofumi Abe has demonstrated dynamically and statically unpolarized single-photon generation using diamond. [caption id="attachment_12244" align="alignnone" width="629"] Schematic picture of unpolarized single-photon generation using…
Looking into the Cheops telescope tube
[caption id="attachment_12241" align="alignright" width="383"] Credit: University of Bern / T. Beck[/caption] Seen here is a Cheops team member reflected in the satellite’s main mirror, and framed by the black internal surface of the telescope tube.…