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Interference Results in Inaccurate Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Vitamin B12

Plenty of natural products are complex organic molecules. Regardless of this intricacy, researchers are typically able to investigate them using spectroscopic techniques. Nevertheless, a team of scientists has found that caution should be taken using Raman spectroscopy to analyze specific chiral molecules (molecules that have handedness; i.e., they can exist in two "mirror image"...

Expanding Human-Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing by Training AI to Detect the Human Intention

Machines and robots certainly make life less complicated. They conducted jobs with precision as well as speed, and, unlike humans, they do not need breaks as they are never tired. Consequently, businesses want to utilize them increasingly more in their production procedures to improve productivity and eliminate filthy, hazardous, and dull tasks. Nevertheless, there are still...

Wash Your Hands for 20 Seconds: Physics Shows Why

One case of a particle’s movement. It begins as the red point, resting on the surface of the hand (black wavy line). It follows the blue path, escaping the hand and then moving freely through the hand-washing fluid. CREDIT: Paul Hammond Despite hand-washing being confirmed effective in combating the spread of illness and infection, its...

World’s Very First Robot Squash Coach

Credit: Heriot-Watt University A social robot from the National Robotarium, hosted by Heriot-Watt University, has become the globe's first squash coach to explore if performance enhancements and motivation levels can be raised throughout a gamer's sole practice. The project will include a study on the court in between an actual player exercising a range of shots...

Hybrid-Electric Airplane Idea May Reduce Aviation’s Air Pollution Trouble

The proposed layout might minimize nitrogen oxide exhausts by 95 percent, a brand-new study finds. At cruising altitude, planes launch a constant stream of nitrogen oxides into the environment, where the chemicals can stick around to create ozone and fine particulates. Nitrogen oxides, or NOx, are a significant source of air contamination and are connected...

Next-Generation 3D Printed Catalysts to Propel Hypersonic Flight

Ultra-efficient 3D published drivers could assist fix the problem of overheating in hypersonic aircraft and supply a cutting edge option to thermal management throughout numerous industries. Created by researchers at RMIT College in Melbourne, Australia, the extremely versatile catalysts are affordable to make and easy to scale. The team's lab demos show that the 3D printed...

Last-Mile Routing Research Challenge Awards Honor $175,000 to Three Winning Groups

Routing is among the most investigated matters in an operations research study; even tiny enhancements in routing efficiency can save companies money and cause energy savings and lowered ecological impacts. Currently, three groups of scientists from universities worldwide have obtained cash prizes amounting to $175,000 for their ingenious route optimization models. The three groups were...

A Framework to Evaluate Techniques for Simulating Physical Systems

Representative visualizations of the four physical systems considered by the researchers, depicting the results and ranges of initial condition sampling. Each has two state components: for the Navier-Stokes system, a flow velocity and a pressure field, and for the other three a position q and momentum p. Credit: Otness et al. The simulation of physical...

Researchers Identify Intruders in Noise

A group of scientists from MIPT and Kazan National Research Technical University is developing a mathematical apparatus that could improve network security. The results have been released in the journal Mathematics. Complex systems, such as network traffic or living microorganisms, do not have deterministic physical laws to properly define them and predict future habits. In...

After Solving the “Sum of Cubes” Puzzle for 42, Mathematicians Solve a Harder Problem That Has Stumped Experts for Years

What do you do after solving the mystery to life, the universe, and also everything? If you are mathematicians Drew Sutherland and Andy Booker, you go for the more challenging issue. The first to discover the answer to 42 were Booker at the University of Bristol, and Sutherland, the leading research scientist at MIT, in...