A 3-dimensional model of a natural killer cell (purple) with granules (yellow) attaching to a target cell (gray). A pseudo color scale shows differences in packing density of lipids on NK cell membrane, with warmer colors indicating higher density. Credit: Orange lab, CUIMC A recently uncovered fat 'guard' that avoids natural killer cells from being...
Partial density of states for 2,3-butanediol with accompanying partial charge density images; isosurface of 0.0075 electrons/Bohr3. The gray, red, brown, and pink spheres are Ru, O, C, and H atoms, respectively. Credit: DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2021.781001 From Plants to Jet fuel A long-overlooked first step in producing sustainable aviation fuels will start with the ideal arrangement of molecular...
Supermicro's ingenuity The industry is emphasizing IoT ingenuity. The connected world is coming together, from your preferred retail store to the branch office and concealed in plain sight. With the development in 5G, IoT, edge applications, AI, data analysis, and compute power shaping Industry 4.0, the Smart City, and beyond, the digital age is here. Supermicro...
It's a compelling (and scary) theory Advanced Civilizations A Harvard researcher has a fascinating theory concerning just how our universe was formed: in a research laboratory by a superior "class" of lifeform. Avi Loeb, the bestselling author also the former chair of Harvard's astronomy department, wrote an op-ed in Scientific American recently positing that the universe might...
The radio lobes of Alcyoneus. (Oei et al., arXiv, 2022). Astronomers have just discovered an absolute beast of a galaxy Hiding some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching five megaparsecs into space. That is 16.3 million light-years long and represents the biggest recognized structure of galactic origin. The finding highlights our poor...
To study superconducting materials in their “normal,” non-superconducting state, scientists usually switch off superconductivity by exposing the material to a magnetic field (left). SLAC scientists discovered that turning off superconductivity with a flash of light (right), produces a normal state with very similar fundamental physics that is also unstable and demonstrates brief flashes of...
Researchers from Osaka University and Osaka City University synthesize and crystallize a molecule that is usually too unstable to thoroughly study in the laboratory. The molecule is also a model of a revolutionary class of magnets. Since the very first documented production in 2004, researchers have been hard at work utilizing graphene and identical...
Nasa/JHU/Carnegie Credit Mercury is a really peculiar planet. The tiniest in the solar system and the one nearest to the sun, it rotates slowly in a 3:2 spin resonance and experiences hot temperatures of up to 430 degrees Celsius during the day and cold temperatures of -170 degrees Celsius at night. Its average density is...
A new graphene amplifier has been able to unlock hidden frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. Credit: Scitech Daily The Earth's atmosphere has been utilized as a 'laboratory' to perform a physics experiment in a research partnership involving the University of Strathclyde, which can help boost the efficiency of GPS. The research study displays a new method...
Several 5G technologies continue to be seen as the wild west in material, design development. 5G, or the fifth-generation technology standard for mobile broadband networks, is promoted as having arrived to bring us ultrafast download speeds, an end to dropped phone calls and buffering, and better connectivity to progress self-driving vehicle development, remote surgery, and...
