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Faculty Should Be Less Recalcitrant When It Comes To New Ideas (Opinion)

Story source: Insidehighered “Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don’t forget that, all of you who don’t have them.” -- John “Jock” Elliott, former chair of Ogilvy and Mather In the 1932 film Horse Feathers, the Board of Trustees at Huxley College appoints Quincy Adams Wagstaff, played by Groucho…

July 17, 201916 minRead time

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Research published in pay-and-publish journals won’t count: UGC panel

The four-member panel was formed by the UGC late last year after The Indian Express published a series of investigative reports on how India has emerged as one of the biggest markets for “predatory” publishers of substandard research journals. Story source: Indian Express Image credits: UGC Suggesting sweeping reforms to promote the quality of research…

July 16, 20191 minRead time

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Tamil Nadu ‘Padwoman’ Who Makes Eco-Friendly Napkins Is A PhD Scholar

Story Source: Ndtv Preethi Ramadoss is being called "Padwoman" for her innovative plastic-free biodegradable sanitary napkin. The PhD scholar at Anna University in Chennai has developed an eco-friendly napkin that she claims completely degrades in a month. This is part of her doctoral research. A nature lover, Ms Ramadoss says that besides plastic, napkins available…

July 16, 20192 minRead time

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Novel nanoparticles deliver CRISPR gene editing tools into the cell with much higher efficiency

Researchers used lipid nanoparticles to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tools for potential treatment of hyperlipidemia. The gene editing molecules are difficult to deliver into cells from an external application. Biodegradable lipid nanoparticles deliver mRNA for the gene editing kit instead. From animation by Visual Science and Skoltech (https://visual-science.com/crispr) A research collaboration between Tufts University and…

July 15, 20195 minRead time

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Scientists unveil the first-ever image of quantum entanglement

For the first time ever, physicists have managed to take a photo of a strong form of quantum entanglement called Bell entanglement—capturing visual evidence of an elusive phenomenon which a baffled Albert Einstein once called 'spooky action at a distance'. Two particles which interact with each other—like two photons passing through a beam splitter, for…

July 15, 20194 minRead time

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Robot-ants that can jump, communicate with each other and work together

Individually, ants have only so much strength and intelligence. However, as a colony, they can use complex strategies to complete sophisticated tasks and evade larger predators. At EPFL, robotics researchers in Professor Jamie Paik's Laboratory have reproduced this phenomenon, developing tiny robots that display minimal physical intelligence on an individual level but that are able…

July 11, 20193 minRead time

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Alton Standifer named assistant to the president

Alton M. Standifer will join the staff of the Office of the President on July 15 as assistant to the president. Standifer presently serves as director of new student orientation and associate director of undergraduate admissions. “Alton will be a tremendous addition to our staff,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “He has been a part of the campus…

July 10, 20194 minRead time

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New method may resolve difficulty in measuring universe’s expansion

Astronomers using National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes have demonstrated how a combination of gravitational-wave and radio observations, along with theoretical modeling, can turn the mergers of pairs of neutron stars into a "cosmic ruler" capable of measuring the expansion of the Universe and resolving an outstanding question over its rate. The astronomers used the…

July 9, 20197 minRead time

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Discovering exoplanets with gravitational waves

In a recent paper in Nature Astronomy, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam and from the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Saclay, Paris suggest how the planned space-based gravitational-wave observatory LISA can detect exoplanets orbiting white dwarf binaries everywhere in our Milky Way…

July 9, 20194 minRead time

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Antigravity water transport system inspired by trees

Efficiently moving water upward against gravity is a major feat of human engineering, yet one that trees have mastered for hundreds of millions of years. In a new study, researchers have designed a tree-inspired water transport system that uses capillary forces to drive dirty water upward through a hierarchically structured aerogel, where it can then…

July 9, 20195 minRead time

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