Credit: UnsplashShielding Batteries with Cosmetics. Xanthan gum, sourced from plants like cabbage and renowned for its carbohydrate makeup, traditionally acts as a natural barrier in beauty products. In a recent innovation, this substance has been repurposed to create a protective layer for battery electrodes, deviating from its typical skincare application.Shielding Batteries with Cosmetics: a...
In contrast to most other toppers, the Hardsider is a two-piece design so owners can remove the sleeper roof and use it as a bed rack HardsiderThe rising trend of hard-sided pop-up pickup campers and camping toppers in the early 2020s is evident through new launches such as Oru Designs Bruin, Cube Series QB, and...
Hiroshima University engineers pioneer 3D printing for robust steel-aluminum bonds: up to 17,404.5 psi resilience. Credits: Motomichi Yamamoto/Hiroshima University.Steel and aluminum are crucial players in bolstering economic growth. However, their fusion zones have long been brittle. Thanks to a novel 3D printing method, the unexplored territory of combining these metals may now experience a...
Credit: UnsplashWe live in an era where Creativity is everything and everywhere. Influencers are taking over sales and even leading people´s consumption behavior in society. Businesses used to collaborate with celebrities to do their advertisement but a new segmentation is rising up where a more person-to-person approach is taking over, which reflects on the...
Global OTEC's clean energy barge, Dominique, harvests power from the temperature differential between deep water and surface waterGlobal OTECOn an average day, tropical oceans absorb around 278 petawatt-hours of solar energy. Capturing just 1/4000th of this energy could fulfill global daily electricity needs, and ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) offers a potential solution.Pioneering OTEC...
Artificial intelligence has reached a point where it can generate highly detailed facial images, so realistic that observers may mistake them for actual human faces. Credit: Unspash.Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have found that artificial intelligence (AI)-generated white faces now exhibit a level of realism surpassing actual human faces. This phenomenon, however,...
Interfacial nonlinear susceptibility in twisted bilayer WS2. Credit: Nature Photonics (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01318-6Physics and materials science comprehensively understand the interaction of light with naturally occurring materials. However, over the last few decades, scientists have engineered metamaterials capable of interacting with light in unconventional ways, surpassing the inherent physical limitations of naturally occurring materials.A metamaterial typically consists...
This diagram outlines the various phases of the analysis process, encompassing the creation of interaction graphs derived from X-ray structures. These graphs are instrumental in training and testing a Graph Neural Network (GNN) to forecast numerical affinity values. The subsequent steps involve pinpointing the significance of edges in making predictions and identifying subgraphs that...
Starship poised on the launchpad, prepared for its second test. Credit: SpaceX.The success of NASA's Artemis program is paramount, with the current contract involving SpaceX's Starship to transport astronauts for the Artemis III and Artemis IV lunar missions. There is no alternative means for astronauts to reach the Moon, although NASA recently opened the...
https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2023/mercedes-benz-trucks-e.jpgWhile hydrogen-fueled large trucks were initially envisioned as the future of environmentally friendly road transport, they might soon find themselves confined to niche markets in Europe, overshadowed by electric trucks.In the outskirts of Trondheim, western Norway, food wholesaler Asko has been conducting trials since 2020 with four hydrogen fuel cell trucks provided by Swedish...
