#Ultra-thin camera lenses of the future could see the light of day

“#Ultra-thin camera lenses of the future could see the light of day” In the future, camera lenses could be thousands of times thinner and significantly less resource-intensive to manufacture. Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, now present a new technology for making the artificial materials known as ‘metasurfaces’, which consist of a multitude of…

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#Newly synthesized fungal compound can switch on a self-destruct button for cancer

“#Newly synthesized fungal compound can switch on a self-destruct button for cancer” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Cancers cells use a special technique to propagate: They delete their “programmed death” gene through mutation, and seemingly “forget” to die when their lifetime is over, and continue to grow instead. A research team from Tokyo University of Science…

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#Physics principle explains order and disorder of swarms

“#Physics principle explains order and disorder of swarms” In order to form a swirl, an active particle (in red) must sense the positions and orientations of neighbours within its field of vision and move accordingly. Credit: Tobias Bäuerle Current experiments support the controversial hypothesis that a well-known concept in physics—a critical point—is behind the striking…

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