Doomed To Collide: Astronomers Announce Discovery of Supermassive Binary Black Holes
A team of researchers from Purdue University and other institutions has discovered a supermassive black hole binary system, one of only two known such systems….
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Quantum Internet Breakthrough – Bell State Analyzer Presents Giant Leap Toward Fully Quantum Internet
Scientists’ increasing mastery of quantum mechanics is heralding a new age of innovation. Technologies that harness the power of nature’s most minute scale show enormous…
New and Improved Cherry Flavor Thanks to the Petunia Flower
That cherry flavor you enjoy in candy and soda is likely a combination of aromatic and flavor compounds discovered through the study of plants in…
A River Runs Through It: NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Onward to the Delta
The delta is calling and we must go! With one Earth year in its rearview mirror, the Perseverance rover has been racking up the odometry…
Plant Scientists Find Recipe for Anti-Cancer Compound in Herbs Like Thyme and Oregano
Thyme and oregano possess an anti-cancer compound that suppresses tumor development, but adding more to your tomato sauce isn’t enough to gain significant benefit. The…
Scientists Create “Time Machine” Made of Human Cells To Reverse Pancreatic Cancer Progression
What makes pancreatic cancer so deadly is its covert and quick spread. Now, a “time machine” built by Purdue University engineers has shown a way…
Simple COVID-19 Safety Tips for Trick-or-Treating on Halloween 2021
The air is getting chillier, pumpkins are perched on porches and kids across the country are planning their spooky costumes. As a professor of pediatric…
Chip-Based Optical Tweezers Levitate Nanoparticles in a Vacuum With an Ultrathin Metalens
Metalens-based design shrinks footprint, making optical traps practical for precision sensing and measurements. Researchers have created tiny chip-based optical tweezers that can be used to…
Say Goodbye to the Dots and Dashes: Enhanced Optical Storage Media
Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored “digital characters” to modernize optical storage. They are confident the advancement will…
Artificial Photosynthesis Promises Clean, Sustainable Source of Energy
Humans can do lots of things that plants can’t do. We can walk around, we can talk, we can hear and see and touch. But…
New Directed Energy Device for Biomedical and Military Defense Applications
An invention from Purdue University innovators may provide a new option to use directed energy for biomedical and defense applications. The Purdue invention uses composite-based…
The Whitest Paint Is Here & It’s the Coolest – Could Help Curb Global Warming
New paint formulation could help buildings rely less on air conditioning. In an effort to curb global warming, Purdue University engineers have created the whitest…
COVID-19 Causes “Unexpected” Cellular Response in the Lungs, Surprising Scientists
New insights into the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infections could bring better treatments for COVID-19 cases. An international team of researchers unexpectedly found that a…
Blind Spots Uncovered at the Intersection of AI and Neuroscience – Dozens of Scientific Papers Debunked
Findings debunk dozens of prominent published papers claiming to read minds with EEG. Is it possible to read a person’s mind by analyzing the electric…
The SARS-CoV-2 Virus Mutates Fast: The Science You Need to Understand About Coronavirus Variants and COVID-19 Vaccines
The SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates fast. That’s a concern because these more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 are now present in the U.S., U.K. and South Africa…
New Turbulence Model Could Help Design Aircraft Capable of Handling Extreme Conditions
Engineers make it possible to simulate complete ‘dance’ of colliding vortices at reduced computational time. In 2018, passengers onboard a flight to Australia experienced a…
Meshing Optics With Electronics: Physics Discovery Leads to Ballistic Optical Materials
Electronics are increasingly being paired with optical systems, such as when accessing the internet on an electronically run computer through fiber optic cables. But meshing…
Disguising Key Computer Chip Hardware From Hackers With New Transistor Design
A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit – but not if the transistor…
