SpaceCAL 3D printer on VSS Unity, awaiting launch on June 8, 2024. Credit: Virgin Galactic Imagine a crew of astronauts headed to Mars. About 140 million miles away from Earth,…
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Student designs wearable purifier to protect underground train users and improve air quality
A man wearing Aerate – a neck-worn air purifier designed to improve air quality for underground train users. Credit: Loughborough University Commuters on underground trains worldwide may soon breathe easier,…
Tapping social media and AI to speed supply chain assistance during disasters
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A doctoral candidate at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is lead author of a study in the International Journal of Production Research investigating the…
Thinles Chondol: Survival strategy in the hostile Himalayan Mountain: Marcescence – Functional Ecologists
In this new post, Thinles Chondol – a PhD candidate at the University of South Bohemia – presents her work “Ecological significance of marcescence in Himalayan plants: Why is standing…
Amazon to build ‘top secret’ cloud for Australia’s spies
Credit: AI-generated image Top-secret Australian military intelligence will be stored on a custom cloud server built by US tech giant Amazon, Canberra said Thursday as it unveiled the US$1.3 billion…
Reversing chemotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Pancreatic cancer is a particularly aggressive and difficult-to-treat cancer, in part because it is often resistant to chemotherapy. Now, researchers at Stanford have revealed that this…
Astronomers are helping to build the world’s largest telescope
In 2014, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) began constructing the world’s largest telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), in Chile’s Atacama Desert, 3,000 metres above sea level. The giant eye on…
Small, cool and sulfurous exoplanet may help write recipe for planetary formation
A surprising yellow haze of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere of a gas “dwarf” exoplanet about 96 light years away from our own solar system makes the planet a prime…
Searching for dark matter with the coldest quantum detectors in the world
The experiment is at about a 10000th of a degree above absolute zero in a special refrigerator ; Dr. Autti (right). Credit: Lancaster University One of the greatest mysteries of…
UK issues guidelines for use of stem cell-based embryo models in research
These models can be created in the lab and mimic aspects of early human embryo development, which raises various ethical considerations. Credit: Irene Zorzan and Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute Stem…
