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Great woman.
Her impeccable calculations had already helped plot the successful flight of Alan B. Shepard Jr., who became the first American in space when his Mercury spacecraft went aloft in 1961. âą âą Johnsonâs work over 33 years propelled many of Americaâs breakthroughs in space exploration, including Neil Armstrongâs âgiant leap for mankindâ on the Moon. âą âą Rest in Peace Maâam đ.
An experiment by EPFL researchers has confirmed a theory that has been used in mechanics for over half a centuryâdespite never having been fully validated. The team could now use the theory in bolder and more innovative ways in their quest to develop ever better energy systems.
Some theories are widely used even though they have never been experimentally validated. One example is the so-called narrow groove theory, or NGT, which explains how air-lubricated bearings work in mechanical systems.
The theory was proposed in 1965 but, until recently, it had only been tested partially or indirectly. Researchers at EPFLâs Laboratory for Applied Mechanical Design (LAMD), based at Microcity in Neuch tel, have now closed a gap that has persisted in the scientific literature for over 50 years. The team has published its findings in the journal Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.
Scientists discover a new link between a protein and an eye condition which affects 1.5 million people.
Australian scientists have made a key breakthrough in a desperate bid to develop a vaccine for the killer coronavirus.
Researchers at the University of Queensland are making a fast-tracked attempt to make a cure for the disease, which has killed more than 2,200 people worldwide.
There are now dozens of Australians suffering from the respiratory disease, with 47 contracting it on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan.
The process even skips the âneed for a heat exchanger or steam turbine generatorâ and can feed an electrical flow âalmost directly into an existing power grid,â according to the companyâs statement.
No nuclear waste, no steam, zero chance of a nuclear meltdown. It almost sounds too good to be true â but the startup still has a lot to prove. McKenzie admitted himself he doesnât know if or when the startupâs idea could be turned into a commercial reality.
âI donât want to be a laughing stock by promising we can deliver something in 10 years, and then not getting there,â he told New Atlas.
Together, they founded W-Cycle, a start-up that develops compostable packaging solutions to tackle the masses of C-PET plastic used in the huge ready-meal packaging industry. Rather than producing single-use trays from plastic and aluminum, W-Cycleâs patented âSupraPulpâ packaging product is based on sugarcane pulp, known as bagasse.
A region beneath the rough waters of the North Sea, known as Doggerland, holds archaeological clues to the past. Watch how researchers are using advances in mapping and leads from dredging sites to piece together the history of this vanished landscape.
Read the story: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/relics-washed-beacheâŠ-north-sea
Europeâs Lost Frontiers Research:
The study was supported by European Research Council funding through the European Unionâs Horizon 2020 re-search and innovation programme (project no. 670518 LOST FRONTIERS, https://erc.europa.eu/ https://lostfrontiers.teamapp.com/) and the Estonian Research Council grant (https://www.etag.ee/, project no. PUTJD829). We acknowledge PGS (https://www.pgs.com/) through provision of data under license CA-BRAD-001â2017. The Brown Bank expeditions were supported through the Flanders Marine institute (VLIZ, http://www.vliz.be/en) and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (https://odnature.naturalsciences.be/belgica/en/)
Researchers in the Netherlands have developed an incredibly accurate nanosensor which can detect metastatic cancer cells from just a single drop of blood in a major breakthrough for early detection and treatment of the disease.
PhD students Dilu Mathew from University of Twente and Pepijn Beekman from Wageningen University pooled their resources and developed a tiny system to detect tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (tdEVs), a particular type of cancer biomarker.
Their nanosensor is so sensitive it can detect cancer biomarkers on a broad spectrum of concentrations from 10 particles per microliter to 1 million particles per microliter, thanks to its incredibly small and delicate electrodes, shaped like two combs facing each other, with a gap of just 120 nanometers between them.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the US have uncovered the âAchillesâ heelâ of most viruses which plague mankind, and could soon develop a universal vaccine.
Vaccine research, development and testing takes a long time, as the ongoing coronavirus outbreak has shown, but that is because researchers devote their time, attention and resources to targeting specific viruses one-by-one. But now scientists at MGH have located what may prove to be a game-changing breakthrough for humanity which could strengthen our bodies and make them impervious to most viruses.
