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Chemistry
Amplification trick increases sensitivity of water toxin detection by 10 times
The latest version of the sensing platform ROSALIND is 10 times more sensitive than its predecessor, opening the possibility for the system to be applied to the detection and monitoring of nucleic acid and bacterial diseases in the human body. Credit: Northwestern University Electric instruments can function unplugged, but they sound better when connected to an amplifier. Similarly, low concentrations…
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Science
19 times a day: Male medaka’s mating limit revealed
Male medaka mate several times a day, and females lay eggs once a day. Provided by: Osaka Metropolitan University Unraveling the kinks of mating in the animal kingdom can help us gain insight into species survival. In animals with multiple partners that lay eggs outside the body, like most fish, the male releases sperm several times a day, but the…
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Chemistry
Graphene oxide and chitosan sponges found to be 10 times more efficient at removing gold from electronic waste
SEM images of Au3+ extraction and reduction by GO/chitosan sponge. Au3+ is displayed in yellow. Credit: Kou Yan A team of chemists and materials scientists from the National University of Singapore, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Manchester in the UK and Guangdong University of Technology in China, have developed a type of sponge made of graphene oxide…
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