“We know the genes, but not their functions.” To resolve this long-standing bottleneck in microbial research, a joint research team has proposed a cutting-edge research strategy that leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) to drastically accelerate the…
Hubble celebrates 27 years with two close friends…
[caption id="attachment_12091" align="alignnone" width="617"] A close galactic pair. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Mutchler (STScI)[/caption] Since its launch on 24 April 1990, Hubble has been nothing short of a revolution in astronomy. The first orbiting…
Study finds amoeba “grazing,” killing bacteria usually protected…
[caption id="attachment_12087" align="alignright" width="409"] Tara Solger, a graduate student from Iran, works with Polysphondylium amoeba in the lab of Marcin Filutowicz, a professor of bacteriology at UW–Madison. DAVID TENENBAUM[/caption] Bacteria have developed an uncountable number…
Not stuck on silicon
Engineers use graphene as a “copy machine” to produce cheaper semiconductor wafers. [caption id="attachment_12084" align="alignnone" width="628"] (Left to right): Postdoc Kyusang Lee, Professor Jeehwan Kim (sitting), and graduate students Samuel Cruz and Yunjo Kim.Photo: Jose-Luis…
Graphene and gold make a better brain probe
A team from Korea created more flexible neural electrodes that minimize tissue damage and still transmit clear brain signals. [caption id="attachment_12080" align="alignright" width="300"] Credit : DGIST[/caption] Electrodes placed in the brain record neural activity, and…






