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Neutrinos, discovered in 1956, are small, fundamental particles that can pass through objects without interacting with matter. The particles interact only through gravity and the weak nuclear force, meaning they can pass through massive objects with an extremely small chance of interacting with any atoms. Neutrinos are little understood, despite being the most abundant particle…

By Angela Lawrence, Senior Director, Real World Evidence, Symphony Health, an ICON plc company The healthcare industry sits at the center of the world’s data explosion. Nearly 30% of all global data originates from healthcare, with the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of healthcare data expected to reach 36% in 2025. For life sciences companies,…

2025 put life sciences labs through the wringer. Venture funding tightened. Layoff emails piled up from Boston to South San Francisco. Clinical timelines slipped, capital projects were paused and plenty of once white-hot markets started to feel a little oversupplied. For lab managers and R&D leaders, the year perhaps felt less like a “soft landing”…

ChatGPT said: CEA-Leti announced it has built working 2.5-volt silicon-on-insulator CMOS chips at just 400°C. That is low enough to stack them atop finished circuitry without risking damage to the layers below, a hurdle that has long stalled progress toward denser, more efficient 3D chip designs. The French research institute, leading the EU’s FAMES pilot…

Hydrogen fuel could be a promising alternative to fossil fuels and other polluting forms of energy. When consumed in a fuel cell, the only waste product is water, making it a much cleaner process than burning fossil fuels. However, producing hydrogen fuel is energy-inefficient and can emit greenhouse gases, depending on the method. Hydrogen production:…

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for the creation of molecular structures with spaces large enough for gases and other chemicals to flow through. These structures are called metal-organic frameworks (MOF) and can be used to harvest water from the air, capture carbon dioxide,…

Gadolyn, a Kingston, Tennessee-based company has appointed rare-earths analyst Jack Lifton as chair of its advisory board and rare-earth magnet expert Gareth Hatch as an advisory board member. The new appointments will help the company, a 2025 R&D 100 Award winner, in its quest to commercialize a U.S.-based process for making magnet and strategic alloys,…

ChatGPT said: CEA-Leti announced it has built working 2.5-volt silicon-on-insulator CMOS chips at just 400°C. That is low enough to stack them atop finished circuitry without risking damage to the layers below, a hurdle that has long stalled progress toward denser, more efficient 3D chip designs. The French research institute, leading the EU’s FAMES pilot…

High-Rate Delay-Tolerant Networking (HDTN) is software for streaming and networking communications in space. The software has the potential to enable a solar system internet, allowing space exploration teams to receive data from rovers and other space vehicles and to maintain connections between spacecraft and Earth.  The software can transfer data up to 10 times faster…