A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. Credit: NASAA retired microscope and samples from research studies on colloids and cellular signaling are among the load returning from the International Space Station aboard the 24th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission. The Dragon craft, which reached the station on December 22, 2021,...
A quark gluon plasma after the collision of two heavy nuclei. Credit: TU WienCan machine learning be used to reveal the secrets of the quark-gluon plasma?Yes, it can. However, only with advanced new methods.It can hardly be more complicated. Little particles whir around wildly with extremely high energy, many interactions happen in the...
5G means fifth-generation cellular network technology, and the technology allows wireless communication. For example, from your cellphone to a cell tower, which conducts it to the internet. 5G is a network service offered by telecommunications providers and is not the exact same thing as the 5 GHz band on your Wi-Fi router.5G presents an...
A Q&A with two scientists aiming to overcome limitations in computing power and energy efficiency deliberately by designing brand-new microchips (CMOS silicon chips).A brief history of microelectronics and CMOS silicone chipsOur laptop computers and smartphones are portable yet powerful due to silicon microelectronics, also known as integrated circuits or chips, the tiny minds behind...
A 2 mm by 2 mm integrated photonic chip developed by Jaime Cardenas, assistant professor of optics, and PhD student Meiting Song (lead author) will make interferometers—and therefore precision optics—even more powerful. Potential applications include more sensitive devices for measuring tiny flaws on mirrors, or dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere, and ultimately, quantum...
Quantifying electric fields in semiconductor devices: The schematic shows electric field distribution in the channel of a GaN transistor; laser beams highlight the second harmonic generation (SHG) nature of the technique. credit: Yuke CaoPower-saving electronics are becoming increasingly important in the quest for a carbon-neutral world. Advancements in this technology are making it possible...
Scientists at the UAB and the UniZar have detected a human peptide located in the brain that prevents the α-synuclein aggregates associated with Parkinson's disease and helps prevent their neurotoxicity. The research released in Nature Communications suggests that this may be one of the organism's natural systems to combat aggregation. The learning might help...
An Holden vehicle. Credit: Igor Lushnickiy(pexels)The Jingle used to relate us to people who loved “kangaroos, football, meat pies, and Holden Cars.”Nowadays, Japanese utes and tiny Toyotas, Hyundais, and Mazda are our favorites.The news on Monday from General Motors, Holden’s US parents, stating that the brand will be “discontinued” and the regional design...
Majestic c.1929 Collection: Bobby Haas and Haas Moto Museum. © Haas Moto Galleries LLC. Photographer: Grant SchwingleMotorcycles in mainstream mediaMotorcycles are so manly, right? Think about Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, Arthur Fonzarelli in tv's Happy Days, and Daniel Craig's James Bond. All chaps, radiating controlled coolness, astride thunderous, throbbing engines.However, in Motorcycles-- Design, Art,...
Debris at the site where an SUV plowed into a Christmas parade. Credit: Jim Vondruska/Getty ImagesPolice have yet to confirm what led a motorist to crash a red SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Nov. 21, 2021, killing a minimum of 5 people as well as injuring many more. However, one thing...
