Credit: POSTECH Charging an electric vehicle usually takes about 10 hours or longer, and even with fast-charging methods, it takes at least 30 minutes. That is assuming there is an…
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Heart Beats and Minds Meet: Your Heart Influences Your Gut Instinct
Summary: Our hearts play a surprising role in shaping how suggestible we are to others’ opinions. The research indicates that evaluating an event during a heartbeat might lead individuals to…
Exploring Stephan’s Quintet with multiple senses
Take a multiwavelength tour of Stephan’s Quintet, learning how we study the same object with different wavelengths of light. When combined, telescopes’ observations can provide different information and clues about…
Lasers enable internet backbone via satellite, may soon eliminate need for deep-sea cables
The researchers tested data transmission by laser over 53 kilometres from the Jungfraujoch to Zimmerwald near Bern. Credit: ETH Zurich Optical data communications lasers can transmit several tens of terabits…
Small sensor ‘smells’ incipient seizures
A Sandia National Laboratories researcher works on a miniaturized sensor system able to detect specific gases warning of an impending seizure. Credit: Craig Fritz In people with epilepsy, seizure-alert dogs…
Argentina launches gas pipeline with overwhelming political support
Argentina’s political class is promoting fossil fuels as a patriotic national endeavour and demonising any environmentalists who oppose them Argentina’s national oil company has begun to fill up a key…
Lessons from the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave
The heat dome that descended upon the Pacific Northwest in late June 2021 met a population radically unprepared for it. Almost two-thirds of households earning US$50,000 or less and 70%…
Release AI From the Shadows, Argues Wharton Professor
Workers are using AI tools to boost individual productivity but keeping their activity on the down-low, which could be hurting the overall performance of their organizations, a professor at the…
the flesh-rotting drug adding to America’s opioid crisis
Opioid addict Martin has seen the deadly fentanyl replace heroin as the most prevalent drug in New York. Now he’s trying to avoid “tranq,” a flesh-eating drug increasingly causing concern…
