A picture of Mercury as taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercury_in_color_-_Prockter07_centered.jpg. Using a cutting-edge magnetic wave detection technique, a new study in Nature Communications has identified lithium in…
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Engineers achieve efficient integration of quantum dot lasers on silicon chiplets
Researchers have now developed an efficient technique for integrating quantum dot lasers within silicon chiplets for scalable practical applications. Credit: karlsbad at Openverse Lasers that are fabricated directly onto silicon…
Indie game studios battle for piece of Switch 2 success
At the BitSummit expo in Kyoto, indie designers touted their games. Players line up inside Nintendo’s booth at a Japanese game fair to try upcoming Switch 2 titles, but, for…
The Vera Rubin Observatory could find dozens of interstellar objects
Scientists and astronomers are racing to study only the third-ever known interstellar visitor to the solar system, but with a powerful new observatory coming online, these enigmatic objects may soon…
New solar cell coating maintains high efficiency despite summer humidity
The additive introduced into the solution for preparing the photoactive layer enhances Marangoni flow, thereby offsetting capillary flow caused by changes in the substrate’s surface energy due to relative humidity,…
How prison affects Black men’s mental health long after they’ve been released
Mike returned home to Philadelphia after a 15-year prison sentence and suffered an emotional breakdown. “I just couldn’t stop crying … I don’t know. It was the anxiety. It was…
An open-source tool for simulating material fracture and fatigue
Miguel Castillón has developed the PhaseFieldX tool while completing his Ph.D. at IMDEA Materials Institute. Credit: IMDEA Materials Institute The Python package PhaseFieldX, developed by researcher Miguel Castillón at IMDEA…
About a third of pregnant women in the US lack sufficient vitamin D to support healthy pregnancies − new research
Children whose mothers had higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy scored better on tests of memory, attention and problem-solving skills at ages 7 to 12 compared with those whose mothers…
