Environmental pollution caused by plastic waste is a growing global problem. Discarded
plastic products and debris (microplastic particles) in the oceans detrimentally affect marine …

INTRODUCTION One fundamental property of the immune system is its ability to develop
memory of previous encounters, resulting in enhanced responsiveness to subsequent …

Smart textiles consist of discrete devices fabricated from—or incorporated onto—fibres.
Despite the tremendous progress in smart textiles for lighting/display applications, a large …

The current evaluation protocol of long-tailed visual recognition trains the classification
model on the long-tailed source label distribution and evaluates its performance on the …

Birefringence is one of key performance for optical functional crystals owing to their
indispensable role in angle phase-matching or adjusting the polarization of light. In the past …

Accumulation of neuronal α-synuclein is a prominent feature in Parkinson's disease. More
recently, such abnormal protein aggregation has been reported to spread from cell to cell …

Recent progress in high power ultrafast short-wave and mid-wave infrared lasers has
enabled gas-phase high harmonic generation (HHG) in the water window and beyond, as …

Dear Editor, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 1 has resulted in over 13 million …

The continued growth in the demand of data storage and processing has spurred the
development of high-performance storage technologies and brain-inspired neuromorphic …

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to over 1 million deaths
worldwide and has been associated with cardiac complications including cardiac …