Tokyo University of Science's quick-settling sweat watch logs 165 minutes on one construction worker
Tokyo University of Science researchers ran a sweat-sensing watch for 2 hours 45 minutes on a construction worker, tracking sodium and potassium signals. Its reference electrode is built to skip the long settling wait of printed sensors, though the team says the signals are not yet validated as accurate electrolyte measurements.
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Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 chemistry Nobel for work on molecules that come in two mirror-image forms. The first two reports describe the achievement differently, so whether it bears on how chiral drugs are made has to wait for the committee's own documents.
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Two researchers won the 2026 chemistry Nobel for asymmetric synthesis, a way to make only one mirror-image form of a molecule. One lab using it says mixed Alzheimer's trial results for resveratrol may trace to two forms of the compound.
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Japanese chemists say lattice spacing, with cutoffs at 14.62 and 14.72 angstroms, sorts gold-alloy magnetism better than electron count. That gives chemists looking for new magnetic quasicrystals one measurable target, as long as a new alloy's spacing can be predicted from its composition.
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Antidepressants block cloned fish serotonin transporters at levels already measured in polluted water
Tests on cloned medaka and ayu transporters push the antidepressant pollution question away from fish behaviour and toward the specific drugs and concentrations a water quality guideline would have to name.
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Unequal colloid sizes turned mutual attraction into self-propelled pairs at Tokyo University of Science
Polystyrene spheres of 1 and 1.5 microns in an alternating field pull on each other unequally, pair off with the big one in front, and keep building clusters that break apart again over more than an hour.
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Hanging a crystal in helium gas lets physicists watch heat hold a switch open
Thin films dump their heat into the substrate, which is why the thermal half of resistive switching stayed hidden. A Tokyo University of Science team hung an organic crystal in helium gas instead and measured its insides.
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