Red brick device developed by chemists at Washington University in St. Louis. Louis illuminates a green light-emitting diode. The photo shows the core-shell architecture of a nanofibrillar PEDOT-coated brick electrode. Credit: D’Arcy Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington at St. Imagine putting your brick in the house. Red bricks …
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FILE PHOTO: A dentist sues a patient at Silveroaks Dental Surgery as it opens for non-aerosol-generating assessments in Milton Keynes, following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, Milton Keynes, UK, June 8, 2020. REUTERS / Andrew Boyers / File photo GENEVA (Reuters) – Dental patients and staff need to be …
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This illustration shows Deinosuchus from bone to flesh. Tyler Stone Let’s turn the clock millions of years back to a time when crocodiles lived as long as buses in America. A new study of fossils of Deinosuchus reveals more details of what these mind-boggling predators looked like, and how they …
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It’s been well over a year since we discovered that work is being done that would bring “dark mode” to Chrome OS. Nowadays I really thought developers would have packaged this, but apparently it has been a bigger venture than I imagined. Every time I get a Canary update, I …
Read More »Comparison of mask types Finds important differences in filtration
Editor’s Note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. N95 masks that are well past their expiration date or have been used and re-sterilized are acceptable alternatives to standard new disposable N95 masks, new research indicates. But some masks start with better felt effectiveness than …
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