Left unchecked, corrosion can rust out cars and pipes, take down buildings and bridges, and eat away at our monuments. Corrosion can also damage devices that could be key to a clean energy future. And now, Duke University researchers have captured extreme close-ups of that process in action.
Picture this disaster scenario in the making: At an industrial plant, a pipe cracks, spraying a cloud of tiny droplets into the air. Workers, however, are in luck. Within minutes, a laser-based device the size of a small suitcase spots the cloud and tells safety crews whats in it so they know how t
Levitation is the kind of superpower many researchers would love to get their hands on.
Traditional techniques for observing fish behavior, largely dependent on vision-based systems, face substantial limitations, such as a confined range of observation and a limited duration of operation underwater. In response to these challenges, a research team from the National University of Defense Technology has pioneered a wearable electronic device that adeptly captures disturbances in the water flow caused by the movements of fish.
Cotton gin waste, also known as cotton gin trash, is a byproduct of the cotton ginning process and occurs when the cotton fibers are separated from the seed boll. For cotton gin waste, the treasure is its hidden potential to transform silver ions into silver nanoparticles and create a new hybrid material that could be used to add antimicrobial properties to consumer products, like aerogels, packaging, or composites.
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as promising biomarkers for non-invasive disease diagnostics, offering an alternative to conventional biopsies. However, the challenge has been the efficient and pure isolation of EVs from biological fluids, as current methods yield variable results. Recognizing this gap, researchers have focused on developing advanced techniques that can isolate EVs with high efficiency and purity, crucial for the accurate detection and monitoring of diseases.
The demand for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) resilient to harsh environments is growing. Silicon-based MEMS struggle under extreme conditions, limited by their performance at elevated temperatures. Silicon carbide (SiC) stands out as a promising solution, offering unmatched thermal, electrical, and mechanical advantages for creating enduring MEMS.
Researchers at the Quantum Machines Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) are studying levitating materialssubstances that can remain suspended in a stable position without any physical contact or mechanical support.
The film could be a game-changer for those who want to keep their homes or offices cool without having to sit in the dark.
/PRNewswire/ -- The report titled "Lithography Equipment Market by Type (Deep Ultraviolet Lithography Machines, Electron Beam Lithography Equipment, Extreme...
A newly developed silicon material covered with tiny nanospikes is capable of taking out 96 percent of the virus particles unfortunate enough to touch its surface in tests.
Researchers gave nanorobots a trait called adaptive time delay, which allows them to better work together.
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The Fiio KA13 is a dongle DAC that costs just $79. While that's enticing in its own right, it's the power on offer that makes it truly stand out.
The Fiio K9 is a mid-range DAC that has the same design and a lot of the same features as its costlier sibling, the K9 Pro. So do you still need to shell out the big bucks to get the K9 Pro, or is the
The WiiM Amp is an all-in-one network streamer that has every feature you could ask for, and it costs just $299.
/PRNewswire/ -- BLUETTI, a leading provider of green energy storage solutions, will introduce the new BLUETTI AC240 to the Australian market on April 2nd at...
/PRNewswire/ -- CE LINK LIMITED ("CE-LINK"), a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics, is thrilled to announce the launch of its revolutionary SFX power...
In which Arcam makes its most up-to-date case for your music-streaming money yet
Learn the difference between these audio devices to start building your audiophile setup
Vietnam has millions of e-scooters and unstable electricity. This sounds like trouble, but here's how e-scooters are helping during blackouts
Vijayawada: Chief Secretary K.S. Jawahar Reddy has directed officials of the Energy department to ensure there is uninterrupted power supply all over the state in view of the summer and the...
I tested the best portable solar panels for power potential, portability, ease of use, and power station compatibility.
Combining bespoke decoding with comprehensive connectivity, the 681 promises to be the ultimate digital front end
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The disk that surrounds newly forming stars shoots out material that could impact its future development.
More evolved galaxies demonstrate a greater range of stellar motions compared to the orderly, circular orbits of stars like our sun in the Milky Way.
Kyushu University researchers have shed new light into a critical question on how baby stars develop. Using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile, the team found that in its infancy, the protostellar disk that surrounds a baby star discharges plumes of dust, gas, and electromagnetic energy.
Groundbreaking observations by the James Webb Space Telescope of an early galaxy merger indicate faster and more efficient star formation than previously understood, revealing complex stellar populations and challenging current cosmological theories. Galaxies and stars developed faster after t
Once installed on a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help scientists better understand dark matter, dark energy, and other mysteries of our universe. After two decades of work, scientists and engineers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and th
The densely populated area at the center of our galaxy is home to epic cosmic collisions and mysterious phenomena.
/PRNewswire/ -- Starburst, the open data lakehouse company, today announced at Data Universe its fully managed Icehouse implementation on Starburst's...
Now that the solar eclipse has passed, there is another celestial event on the calendar later this year - and it involves a massive explosion 3,000 light years from Earth...Astronomers will get the rare once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the binary star system in the constellation T Corona Boreal...
New research shows the stars at the center of our galaxy are a bit vampiric.
Astronomers from the University of Warsaw, Poland and elsewhere have detected a new classical Cepheid variable star. The newfound star, which received designation OGLE-GD-CEP-1884, has the longest pulsation period known among such variables in the Milky Way. The finding was detailed in a research paper published March 29 on the pre-print server arXiv.
High sensitivity radio observations have discovered a cloud of magnetized plasma in the Hydra galaxy cluster. The odd location and shape of this plasma defy all conventional explanations. Dubbed the Flying Fox based on its silhouette, this plasma will remain a mystery until additional observations can provide more insight.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and NGC 5994 (its smaller companion, in the lower left of the image).
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Watch Zack Gelof's solo home run in the eighth inning of the A's-Rangers game on Wednesday. Gelof's solo home run in eighth inches A's closer vs. Rangers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
A research team has developed a broadband UV dual-comb spectrometer with which air pollutants can be continually measured and their reaction with the environment can be observed in real time.
Researchers used a robotic lab to mix unconventional ingredients in just the right order to make complex materials for batteries.
Chemists often develop and optimize new chemical reactions using so-called model systems, i.e., simple, easily accessible substrates. They then use up to around 100 other substrates as examples to show that the reaction works. This demonstration of versatile applicability is called "scope" in technical jargon.
Molecules often have a structural asymmetry called chirality, which means they can appear in alternative, mirror-image versions, akin to the left and right versions of human hands. One of the great mysteries about the origins of life on Earth is that virtually all of the fundamental molecules of bio
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — This week, we honor Gracie Cook as the WKRG News 5 Scholar Athlete of the Week. Cook is a senior at Baker High School where she plays varsity softball, flag football and wrestles. She went to state for wrestling and placed third in her weight class. Cook is a member of […]
In a battle between two teams on fire, the Fruita Monument Wildcats used a huge 5th inning to end their rival's 5-game win streak, 7-2.
The Celtics made bizarre NBA history during their loss to Milwaukee by becoming the first team in NBA history to not shoot any free throws in an entire game. Jayson Tatum gives his reaction postgame. Jayson Tatum reacts to Celtics getting zero free throw attempts vs. Bucks originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Apr. 9—Pulaski, fresh off a 1-1 tournament at Elizabethtown, were back at their home field for the first time in two weeks on Monday evening, welcoming in the Casey County Lady Rebels for a 47th District showdown. Despite the Lady Maroons being a strong offensive team, it was a pitching duel for most of the evening's contest, with Pulaski being able to take away a 2-0 victory. Bella Ellis and ...
The ecological risk of pollutants is closely related to their environmental behavior. A research team led by Prof. Fan Qiaohui from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted an in-depth study on the transformation process of As(III) on the surface of birnessite.
Here is a retrospective of the winners of The Charlotte Observer’s Sweet 16 boys’ basketball poll from 1984-2024.
In a study led by Prof. Wei Xu (Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University) and published in the journal National Science Review, a research team achieved the successful synthesis of a one-dimensional carbon chain on the Au(111) surface, with the longest chain containing approximately 120 carbon atoms, and the polyynic nature of the carbon chain was unambiguously characterized by bond-resolved atomic force microscopy (AFM).
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Proton has announced the acquisition of Standard Notes, a privacy-focused note-taking app. With this merger, Proton aims to expand its service ecosystem, which includes mail, VPN, storage, and more.
By adding Standard Notes to its portfolio of apps, Proton will deepen its reach with an engaged community of pro-privacy users.
Operating at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) since 2022, the FASER experiment is designed to search for extremely weakly interacting particles. Such particles are predicted by many theories beyond the Standard Model that are attempting to solve outstanding problems in physics such as the nature of dark matter and the matter-antimatter imbalance in the universe.
University of Copenhagen team contributes to an Antarctic large-scale experiment striving to find out if gravity also exists at the quantum level; An extraordinary particle able to travel undisturbed through space seems to hold the answer. Several thousand sensors distributed over a square kilome
Researchers at the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) have accurately measured the cosmic ray all-particle energy spectrum and the mean logarithmic mass in the range of 0.330 peta-electronvolts (PeV). They have also discovered an "elbow" feature in the mean logarithmic mass spectrum of cosmic rays.
BREAD's innovative approach to dark matter detection uses a coaxial dish antenna to scan for mysterious particles. One of the great mysteries of modern science is dark matter. We know dark matter exists thanks to its effects on other objects in the cosmos, but we have never been able to directl
A breakthrough in theoretical physics is an important step toward predicting the behavior of the fundamental matter of which our world is built. It can be used to calculate systems of enormous quantities of quantum particles, a feat thought impossible before.
Proton now owns the open-source end-to-end encrypted note-taking app, Standard Notes.
Quantum electronics represents a significant departure from conventional electronics. In traditional systems, memory is stored in binary digits. In contrast, quantum electronics utilizes qubits for storage, which can assume various forms, including electrons trapped in nanostructures known as quantu
One of the most fundamental interactions in physics is that of electrons and light. In an experiment at Goethe University Frankfurt, scientists have now managed to observe what is known as the Kapitza-Dirac effect for the first time in full temporal resolution. This effect was first postulated more than 90 years ago, but only now are its finest details coming to light.
Neutrons are subatomic particles that have no electric charge, unlike protons and electrons. That means that while the electromagnetic force is responsible for most of the interactions between radiation and materials, neutrons are essentially immune to that force.
One of the great mysteries of modern science is dark matter. We know dark matter exists thanks to its effects on other objects in the cosmos, but we have never been able to directly see it. And it's no minor thingcurrently, scientists think it makes up about 85% of all the mass in the universe.
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The team that created the first-ever image of a black hole five years ago is now working on the first black hole movie.
New research suggests black holes might have helped birth new stars in the aftermath of the Big Bang. Should scientists rethink galaxy evolution and formation?
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth's Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) have helped to detect a remarkable gravitational-wave signal, which could hold the key to solving a cosmic mystery.
From Ancient Babylon to Albert Einstein, eclipses have been key moments in advancing our understanding of science.
NASA's Chandra Identifies an Underachieving Black Hole Astronomers have revealed that a brilliant supermassive black hole is not living up to expectations. Although it is responsible for high levels of radiation and powerful jets, this giant black hole is not as influential as many of its counterpa
While I was assembling and formatting all these links, we had a 4.8-magnitude earthquake here on the East Coast, so apologies in advance for any misaligned text. This week: Gravitationally accelerated stars! AIs that exhibit cooperative and selfish behaviors! And another edition of "Would You Eat This?"
Gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time, have been a hot topic in the world of physics since their first detection in 2017. These waves,
In the center of our Milky Way galaxy, some strange things are happening with the stars. Despite being incredibly old, some stars orbiting around the
The detection of gravitational waves stands as one of the most significant achievements in modern physics. In 2017, gravitational waves from the merger of a binary neutron star were detected for the first time which uncovered crucial information about our universe, from the origin of short gamma-ray bursts to the formation of heavy elements.
Scientists have received an extremely exciting gravitational-wave signal from the distant universe.
NASA's IXPE spacecraft successfully resumed scientific operations on April 3 after a temporary suspension of data transmission since March 23. NASA confirmed the IXPE spacecraft resumed normal science operations April 3, following a successful spacecraft avionics reset on March 26. NASAs IXPE (I
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