Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Building the world’s largest digital camera ever made for astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time Camera, is no simple…
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What happens to health programs if the federal government shuts down?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For the first time since 2019, congressional gridlock is poised to at least temporarily shut down big parts of the federal government—including many health programs. If…
Microsoft-Google peace deal broke down over search on Duo
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A five-year truce between rivals Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp. came crashing down in 2020 when the tech giants found themselves at odds over their competing…
New method reduces carbon emissions from zinc oxide rotary kilns, boosting profits for zinc smelting industry
Schematic of the proposed a multi-objective adaptive optimization model predictive control method. Credit: Ke Wei et al. The zinc smelting industry is facing new challenges in meeting China’s carbon peak…
An intelligent control method reduces carbon emissions in energy-intensive equipment
Structure of the intelligent control method for low-carbon operation. Credit: Tianyou Chai et al. A research team led by Professor Tianyou Chai from Northeastern University, China, has developed an innovative…
NASA’s Perseverance captures dust-filled Martian whirlwind
The whirlwind. See video below. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The lower portion of a Martian dust devil was captured moving along the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater by NASA’s Perseverance rover…
Ultrafast quantum simulation of large-scale quantum entanglement
Credit: NINS/IMS A research group led by Professor Kenji Ohmori at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences are using an artificial crystal of 30,000 atoms aligned…
The right bacterial mix could help frogs take the heat
Some of a green frog’s heat tolerance might come from its microbiome. Put a wood frog tadpole and a green frog tadpole in water and turn up the heat. The…
ADB set to launch first coal early retirement scheme in Indonesia
A finance tool to shut down Asian coal plants up to a decade early will swing into action “soon”, says Asian Development Bank climate envoy A new financing tool that…
Dark Matter Halos Measured Around Ancient Quasars
Making observations. Principle investigator Junya Arita and co-investigator, Yoshihiro Takeda making observations in the control room of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Image credit: Nobunari Kashikawa CC BY, University…
