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A tiny detector for microwave photons could advance quantum tech
- Apr 3, 2026
Detecting a single particle of light is hard; detecting a single microwave photon is even harder. Microwave photons, the tiny packets of electromagnet...
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High-throughput platform helps engineer fast-acting covalent protein drugs
- Apr 3, 2026
A team led by principal investigators Bobo Dang and Ting Zhou at Westlake University/Westlake Laboratory have developed a high-throughput platform for...
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Assembling more than 1,000 human genomes affordably: New method could power genetic screening's future
- Apr 3, 2026
A research team led by Zhen-Xing Endowed Professor Jian Yang at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, has developed a pangenome-informed g...
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Study examines diversity of Black perspectives on race relations
- Apr 3, 2026
A new Rice University study offers one of the first national measures of a viewpoint called "racial realism" and considers how it fits into the broade...
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The depths of Neptune and Uranus may be 'superionic'
- Apr 3, 2026
The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be home to a previously unknown state of matter, according to new computational simul...
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Engineering the bite of ancient marine predators
- Apr 3, 2026
An international team of researchers, led by paleontologists of the University of Liège, has investigated the biting capabilities of extinct predatory...
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The Habitable Worlds Observatory will need astrometry to find life
- Apr 3, 2026
We're getting closer and closer to finding a real Earth-like exoplanet. But finding one is only half the battle. To truly know if we're looking at an...
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3D root model captures mangroves' capacity to protect coastal communities from storm waves
- Apr 3, 2026
Mangrove forests are natural wonders that protect coastal areas, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions. They are able to dissipate wave ene...
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Small quantum system outperforms large classical networks in real-world forecasting
- Apr 3, 2026
Can a handful of atoms outperform a much larger digital neural network on a real-world task? The answer may be yes. In a study published in Physical R...
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The most pristine star yet found in the known universe
- Apr 3, 2026
An unusual team of astronomers used Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) data and observations on the Magellan telescopes at Carnegie Science's Las Cam...
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Seed banks may complicate gene drives aimed at controlling weeds
- Apr 3, 2026
Gene drives—a genetic engineering approach that quickly spreads specific genetic changes throughout a population, whether to kill it off or add a new...
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Earth from space: Eyes on our moon
- Apr 3, 2026
In an unusual perspective for an Earth-observing satellite, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of the moon, Earth's only natural sa...