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A Whole New Dimension for 3D Printing

Researchers have combined 2D printing, origami, and chemistry to create a method of rapid 3D object fabrication that does not create any waste material.
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Programable Clay Offers a Plethora of Possibilities for Chemists

Researchers invented a programmable clay material and “building-block” to advance discoveries in chemistry, engineering and other scientific fields.
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Majority of Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment Still Drive

According to research, the majority of older adults with cognitive impairment are still driving, despite concerns raised by caregivers and others.
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AI Tool Predicts How Hard Enzymes Work

Enzymes play a key role in cellular metabolic processes. To enable the quantitative assessment of these processes, researchers need to know the so-called “turnover number” (for short: kcat) of the enzymes.
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Optimizing Pyrolysis Could Improve Chemical Recycling of Waste Plastics

Researchers have developed a computational framework that offers a significant advancement in predicting temperature-dependent product distributions from plastic pyrolysis.
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Understanding Insulin Synthesis

Examining messenger RNAs involved in the production of insulin in fruit flies, they found that a chemical tag on the mRNA is crucial to translating the insulin mRNA into the protein insulin.
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Why Do Caecilian Amphibians Feed Their Skin to Their Offspring?

A new study shows that skin-feeding does more than provide nutrients for young caecilians. It also helps the mother pass microbes from her skin and gut down to her young, inoculating them to jump-start a healthy microbiome.
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Laser Treatment Improves Battery Performance

Pulses of light tune MXene's structure to improve energy storage and battery stability.
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Breastfed Infants Are 33% Less Likely To Die in Their First Year of Life

A large-scale study strengthens the case for promoting and supporting breastfeeding to address the high rate of infant mortality in the US.
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Heart Disease Directly Impacts Sleep Hormone Production

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich show – for the first time – that cardiac conditions directly impact the pineal gland’s production of the sleep-related hormone melatonin.
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