A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A 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,...
This fluorescence microscopy image shows yeast vacuoles that have undergone phase separation. Credit: Luther Davis/Alexey Merz/University of Washington Membranes are essential to our cells. Every cell in your body is encased by one. And each of those cells contains specialized chambers, or organelles, which are similarly confined by membranes. Membranes assist cells in accomplishing tasks like...
Credit: Xponentialdesign Cosmic physics simulated on the tabletop as graphene enables the Schwinger effect, forming particle-antiparticle pairs. Researchers at The University of Manchester succeeded in observing the supposed Schwinger effect. The Schwinger effect is an evasive process that usually happens only in cosmic events. The group - based at the National Graphene Institute - accomplished to...
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 chips Our laptop computers and smartphones are portable yet powerful due to silicon microelectronics, also known as integrated circuits or chips, the tiny minds behind...
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 Cao Power-saving electronics are becoming increasingly important in the quest for a carbon-neutral world. Advancements in this technology are making it possible...
Majestic c.1929 Collection: Bobby Haas and Haas Moto Museum. © Haas Moto Galleries LLC. Photographer: Grant Schwingle Motorcycles in mainstream media Motorcycles 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,...
wenaturalists.com Curtin researchers are part of an international research group that examined an ancient supervolcano in Indonesia and discovered that such volcanoes continue to be active and dangerous for hundreds of years after a super-eruption, motivating the need for a rethink of exactly how these possibly devastating events are forecasted. Associate Professor Martin Danišík, the lead...
CALGARY (Bloomberg)-- The White House pledged to talk about a crucial pipeline that lugs Canadian crude via Michigan with the northern neighbor, emphasizing the United States is not considering a shutdown of the conduit the state's governor wants to be shuttered. The U.S. and Canadian governments will certainly "engage constructively" on the future of Enbridge...
generalsurgerynews.com We've caught a glimpse of robotic surgery's potential future, and it's not much bigger than a bread box. The miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant (MIRA), which weighs less than two pounds and is roughly the proportions of a human hand, can be inserted into a patient's belly through a single 2.5–3 cm umbilical incision. The...
