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New research demonstrates potential of thin-film electronics for flexible chip design https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-potential-thin-electronics-flexible-chip.html by KU Leuven The mass production of conventional silicon chips relies on a successful business model with large "semiconductor...

Climate change supercharged a heat dome, intensifying 2021 fire season, study finds https://phys.org/news/2024-04-climate-supercharged-dome-season.html by Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times As a massive heat dome lingered over the Pacific Northwest three years ago, swaths of North America simmere...

China to send three astronauts to Tiangong space station, part of its ambitious program https://phys.org/news/2024-04-china-astronauts-tiangong-space-station.html by ANDY WONG and SIMINA MISTREANU China's space agency is making final preparations to send a new crew to its space station on Thursday a...

Scientists develop novel one-dimensional superconductor https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-dimensional-superconductor.html by University of Manchester In a significant development in the field of superconductivity, researchers at The University of Manchester have successfully achieved robust ...

Mini-colons advance colorectal cancer research https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-mini-colons-advance-colorectal-cancer.html by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne In a breakthrough for cancer research, scientists at EPFL have created lab-grown mini-colons that can accurately mimic the deve...

AI designs active pharmaceutical ingredients quickly and easily based on protein structures https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ai-pharmaceutical-ingredients-quickly-easily.html by Fabio Bergamin, ETH Zurich A new computer process developed by chemists at ETH Zurich makes it possible to generate active ph...

Storing and utilizing energy with innovative sulfur-based cathodes https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-energy-sulfur-based-cathodes.html by Kathrin Anna Kirstein, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Electric vehicles and portable electronic devices such as laptops and mobile phones are unthinkable witho...