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Europe’s Utopia

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Maybe They Are Sending Their Best

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Low-power MoS₂-based microwave transmitter could advance communications

To further advance wireless communication systems, electronics engineers have been trying to develop new electronic circuits that operate in the microwave frequency range (1–300 GHz), while also losin...

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Neal Asher @nealasher.bsky.social · 17h

Human cells activate self-destruction when viruses disrupt RNA production, study shows

Viruses are masters at taking over our cells: They disable our defenses and hijack the cellular machinery in order to multiply successfully. For example, the herpes simplex virus 1, which causes blist...

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Discovery of hundreds of human gut phages provides new approach to studying the gut microbiome

Hundreds of new viruses living inside bacteria within our gut have been discovered in an international study led by Professor Jeremy J. Barr from Monash University's School of Biological Sciences and ...

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Discovery of hundreds of human gut phages provides new approach to studying the gut microbiome

Hundreds of new viruses living inside bacteria within our gut have been discovered in an international study led by Professor Jeremy J. Barr from Monash University's School of Biological Sciences and ...

Neal Asher @nealasher.bsky.social · 18h

Machine learning helps identify 'thermal switch' for next-generation nanomaterials

Imagine being able to program materials to control heat like you can control a light with a dimmer switch. By simply squeezing or stretching the materials, you can make them hotter or colder.

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Ex-smokers who relapse may simply be tired of the effort of not smoking

The most reliable predictor of an ex-smoker's relapse isn't strong urges to smoke or low confidence in the ability to stay off tobacco—it's weariness with the efforts to remain a non-smoker, according...

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First gym session in about five months this afternoon. I was feeling a tad wobbly afterwards. I guess I should have eased into it but no, I hammered the weights and machines for two hours. Tomorrow I'll probably be complaining about DOMS and struggling to pick my towel up off the bathroom floor. 😂

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At Least She Wasn't Racist

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Neal Asher @nealasher.bsky.social · 1d

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Anomalous metal sheds light on 'impossible' state between superconductivity and insulation

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, steered very thin conductors from superconductivity to insulation—creating an "impossible," strange state between the two mutually ex...

Neal Asher @nealasher.bsky.social · 1d

Compact laser-plasma accelerator can generate muons on demand for imaging

Muon beams can now be created in a device that is the length of a ruler.

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Neal Asher @nealasher.bsky.social · 1d

The Role of Cellular Senescence in Cardiovascular Disease

When a cell becomes senescent it ceases replication, expands in size, and secretes a mix of pro-growth, pro-inflammatory molecules known as the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Cells ...

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Neal Asher @nealasher.bsky.social · 1d

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Metabolomic Signatures of Extreme Old Age

It remains an open question as to whether studying the biochemistry of extremely old people can provide a basis for interventions that will help everyone live meaningfully longer. If genetics has litt...

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Neal Asher @nealasher.bsky.social · 1d

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Pharmacological Approaches to the Treatment of Skeletal Muscle Aging

Researchers here provide a tour of better known pharmacological targets for the development of drugs to slow or potentially reverse loss of muscle mass and strength with age. The high bar to beat is t...

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Neal Asher @nealasher.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Benjamin - This Is Why We’re Going to Win

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