For now, please continue to wear masks indoors when not at home; keep distanced & clean your hands often Vaccination has done much good, but many people are still getting ill. Survivors of covid can be left with serious chronic illness. In hospitals, we’re already busy Thanks

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Self-assembled optical cavities can reach a strong-coupling state that supports polariton formation @nature phys.org/news/2021-09-s…

Researchers in China and Spain have made a "saser" – a laser for sound waves – by adding a gain medium to artificial acoustic materials known as sonic crystals. The new saser could have applications in medical ultrasonics and materials testing. ow.ly/ieWt50GAc2X

My 8 y/o daughter drew this for Weizmann Institute ‘Women in Science’ drawing contest. Plz like and RT to help her win! 🧪👩‍🔬🥼

Walking in a magic fairyland University of Leeds

Wonderful women, including our fantastic Lekshmi, doing great science using AFM # WomeninAFM

Philly Materials demo online. I hope you enjoy @JiaqiLiu_UPenn and Yuchong-Gao-Arden’s Kirigami and origami video, phillymaterials.mse.drexel.edu/categories-of-… Materials Science and Engineering at Penn

Great to see colleague Dr Lekshmi Kailas feature in NuNano scientists in atomic force microscopy (AFM). Lekshmi is doing amazing research Physics and Astronomy at Leeds including combining AFM and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. nunano.com/women-in-afm-2…

A special week in origami: Welcoming the Year of Tiger & the start of Winter Olympics 2022 ( Mascot: Bing Dwen Dwen)

Rescuers saved this seven-year-old girl and her little brother after 17 hours underneath the rubble. The little girl was protecting her brother’s head the whole time. ❤️ x.com/officialshehr/…

It is with great sadness that we announce that our dear friend and colleague Tom McLeish died peacefully at home yesterday lunchtime. Tom was very dearly loved and enormously respected. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family at this difficult time. Physics of Life

Scientists identify secret ingredient in Leonardo da Vinci paintings cnn.com/style/article/… via CNN Style. You can read the #OpenAccess article Nature Communications go.nature.com/3zkpUWk

Related to the previous post: New research highlight out by Sunjie Ye in NatRevMaterials on superblack and transparent wood. rdcu.be/dtUDn

Anti-PEG antibodies may be present in the general population, which may affect PEG-based implants and tissue engineering applications! Thus, patients should be tested for antibodies against PEG before receiving a PEG-based therapy Nature Communications Daniel Alge go.nature.com/44rmu2A

PEG immunogenicity in tissue engineering- "Future patients should be tested for antibodies against PEG before receiving a PEG-based tissue engineering therapy". Paper doi.org/10.1038/s41467… Nature Communications Daniel Alge Research highlight Nature Reviews Bioengineering rdcu.be/dGpq6

Yeah, looks super interesting.