Radiant-convective heating terminal show potential for improved indoor thermal environment for intermittent heating

(a) Schematic; (b) actual terminal; (c) side view. Credit: Hongli Sun et al. A recent study published in Engineering, “Indoor Thermal Environment Improvement Based on Switchable Radiation/Convection-Combined Intermittent Heating: Comparison…

How the cost of living crisis and games industry turmoil could hurt Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro release

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In late November 2020, I was one of those people standing in line—or rather, refreshing my browser—hoping to snag a PlayStation 5 during a restock. The…

Using Turing patterns to enhance soft pneumatic technology

Did dark matter help black holes grow to monster sizes in the infant cosmos?

New research suggests that dark matter decay could have helped black holes grow to monstrous supermassive sizes relatively early in the infant universe. If true, this could help explain some…

Europe en route for moon with new simulator, says astronaut Pesquet

Pesquet is a national icon in France for his missions to the International Space Station (ISS). Europe has embarked on the mission to put humans back on the moon with…

UK govt buys semiconductor facility key to defense

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The UK government announced on Friday that it had acquired a key semiconductor factory after fears its imminent closure would hamper a crucial supply chain to…

Boeing strike grinds on as latest talks fail to reach agreement

Boeing workers in the Seattle-area walked off the job on September 13 after overwhelmingly voting down a contract offer. The union for striking Boeing workers said Friday that talks with…

Abortion rights worldwide: a snapshot

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Despite being liberalized in scores of countries over recent decades, women’s access to abortion remains a precarious right globally with numerous countries restricting the procedure or…

Huntington’s Protein Mutation Blocks DNA Repair

Summary: Researchers have discovered that the protein mutated in Huntington’s Disease fails to properly repair DNA, leading to reduced brain cell healing. The huntingtin protein normally stimulates the production of…

Over 300 geoglyphs discovered in the Nazca Pampa region using AI

Archaeologists from Yamagata University of Japan, working in collaboration with the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, have discovered 303 new geoglyphs in the Nazca Pampa region of Peru. The geoglyphs are…