Zap! California startup touts its new battery technology as a fast-charging ‘universal adapter’

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Officials at a startup based in Carlsbad, California, expect a battery technology they have engineered will transform the way e-bikes and electric-powered hand-held tools are charged.…

Birth rate in United States remained unchanged from 2021 to 2022, report shows

The birth rate in the United States was essentially unchanged from 2021 to 2022, according to the April 4 National Vital Statistics Reports. Michelle J.K. Osterman, from the National Center…

A scalable reinforcement learning–based framework to facilitate the teleoperation of humanoid robots

Credit: He et al The effective operation of robots from a distance, also known as teleoperation, could allow humans to complete a vast range of manual tasks remotely, including risky…

Meta asks US judge to toss blockbuster antitrust case

Credit: Julio Lopez from Pexels Facebook giant Meta on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a case from a powerful US antitrust authority that could see the social media…

Discovery points path to flash-like memory for storing qubits

Physicists from five Rice University laboratories and more than a dozen collaborating institutions have discovered a way to use heat to switch crystals of iron, germanium and tellurium between two…

The April 8 total solar eclipse will bring weird sights, sounds and feelings

On Monday (April 8), the sky over a swathe of North America will briefly darken as the moon covers the sun completely during a total solar eclipse.  For a maximum…

Screening with a PSA test has a small impact on prostate cancer deaths but leads to overdiagnosis, finds study

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The largest study to date investigating a single invitation to a PSA blood test to screen for prostate cancer has found it had a small impact…

ESA and NASA team up to study solar wind

Both Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe have very eccentric orbits, meaning that they fly in near to the Sun to get a close-up look, and then fly far out…

NASA’s Europa Clipper Survives and Thrives in ‘Outer Space’ on Earth

In less than six months, NASA is set to launch Europa Clipper on a 1.6-billion-mile (2.6-billion-kilometer) voyage to Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa. From the wild vibrations of the rocket ride to the…

How Interconnectedness Affects Elderly Resilience

Summary: A new study illuminated the consequences of a tighter interconnection between different domains of functional capacity in the elderly, pointing towards a reduced resilience in the system. This study…