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In the age of smart technology, when data is continually created by and transmitted among mobile phones, smart watches, cameras, smart speakers, and other gadgets, digital information is everywhere.

Have you ever wondered why one person can smoke cigarettes for a year and easily quit, while another person will become addicted for life? Why can't some people help themselves from abusing alcohol and others can take it or leave it?

The University of Michigan has created a method to produce its extremely effective and semitransparent solar cells, which is a significant step toward delivering transparent solar cells to home windows.

A promising method for long-term energy consumption reduction is passive day cooling. It removes stored heat without requiring external energy and prevents buildings from becoming overheated by solar radiation.

Precious diamonds can be created when carbon atoms arrange themselves into a flawlessly repeating three-dimensional crystal. Carbon can also be arranged in flat sheets that are repeated to create the gleaming grey graphite that is used to produce pencils.

By incorporating artificial components into E. coli bacteria to create biohybrid microrobots, a group of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems’ Physical Intelligence Department has integrated robotics with biology.

Sepsis is like the final buzzer in a field of medicine like critical care, where seconds can make the difference between life and death.

The body image is not always precise or realistic, but it is a crucial piece of information that affects how individuals behave in the world, as any athlete or fashion-conscious person can attest to.

Constructions made of porous rock may weather over time. TU Wien (Vienna) researchers have now thoroughly examined how silicate nanoparticles can help save them for the first time.

People conceived by sperm and egg donation, as well as their parents and donors, are making use of commercial genetic DNA testing in a variety of ways little considered in earlier reports, according to the interim results of a qualitative study presented here at ESHRE's 38th annual meeting in Milan.