Mice made transparent with a dye used in Doritos
Matching refractive indexes lets some wavelengths pass cleanly through the skin. Enlarge / Zihao Ou, who helped develop this solution, holds a tube of it. One key challenge in medical imaging is to look past skin and ot.....»»
Infinix could be borrowing design cues from Nothing for its next phone
It looks like the Nothing Phone’s transparent design is catching on, at least as far as Infinix’s next smartphone is concerned. Smartphone tech has peaked. We’re at that point where any gains in performance feels marginal and border.....»»
Case-Mate refreshes popular transparent GaN charger with 50W dual USB-C design
Last fall, Case-Mate launched a series of retro USB-C chargers with flashy transparent designs. The single port offerings were great for your standard iPhone 14 charging needs, but that 30W GaN tech could only go so far. Now the company is back with.....»»
Inifinix Challenges Nothing with its own Transparent Smartphone
A post on Chinese social networking site Weibo shows a couple of images of the yet-to-be-released phone. Nothing’s decision to go all see-through with its device lineup has undoubtedly sparked a fire amongst its contemporaries, and it.....»»
Researchers explain how mushrooms can live for hundreds of years without getting cancer
The risk of cancer increases with every cell division. As such, you would expect long-lived species like elephants to get cancer more often than short-lived species like mice. In 1975, however, Richard Peto discovered that this is not the case, and t.....»»
Why are there hopping mice in Australia but no kangaroos in Asia? It"s a long story
The animals in Australia are super-different to those in Asia. This goes without saying; we know Australia is full of weird and wonderful creatures found nowhere else on Earth, such as the platypus and the koala......»»
Review: Unihertz Jelly Star: Miniaturized Maker Mobile
Manufacturer: Unihertz Kickstarter Campaign Price: $170 Unihertz Jelly Star: Miniaturized Maker Mobile? I remember my first phone: it was transparent blue, and it … plugged into the wall. But once things became a bit more mobile, I was very excite.....»»
Study asks if eponymous business owners are more reticent about the transparent disclosure of company finances
It is not uncommon for business owners to bestow their own names upon a firm. There are many well-known examples—in the U.K., there's Dyson; in the U.S., there's Ben & Jerry's; while, in Europe, one might think of Bosch or Porsche......»»
Gears Technica: The keyboards and mice our editors swear by
Check out the peripherals the Ars staff relies on to game and stay productive. Enlarge We see a lot of gear at Ars Technica. Plenty of keyboards and mice have come across the desks of our reviewers and editors, from m.....»»
Researchers create edible, transparent composite packaging with biocellulose
Plastic food packaging accounts for a significant proportion of plastic waste in landfills. In the face of escalating environmental concerns, researchers are looking to bio-derived alternatives......»»
See-through squid lets scientists study cephalopod nervous system
A team at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has successfully engineered an albino strain of the hummingbird bobtail squid, Euprymna berryi. This advance, reported in Current Biology, has created a nearly transparent organism that offers scientis.....»»
Researchers use stem cell zoo to compare six mammalian species and their developmental time
In humans, pregnancy lasts around nine months. In mice, only 20 days, and in rhinoceroses, as long as 17 months. Although many mammalian species go through the same stages during embryo development, the speed of development differs substantially acro.....»»
With transparent machine learning tool, engineers accelerate polymer discovery
Using the power of prediction, University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineers have quickly discovered several promising high-performance polymers out of a field of 8 million candidates......»»
Of mice and matriarchs: The female-led societies of the animal kingdom
Queen Elizabeth II's record-breaking long reign was exceptional in many ways—not least because England has been ruled by men for most of the last thousand years. Until recently, the crown was passed to the monarch's eldest son and daughters were ma.....»»
What deer mice can tell us about high-elevation pregnancies and fetal growth
Biologist Kate Wilsterman is amazed by pregnancy. This essential mammalian life process is both complicated and dynamic: In addition to creating the next generation, pregnancy requires changes in nearly every organ of the gestational parent; dramatic.....»»
Study in mice links heat-damaged DNA in food to possible genetic risks
Researchers have newly discovered a surprising and potentially significant reason why eating foods frequently cooked at high temperatures, such as red meat and deep-fried fare, elevates cancer risk. The alleged culprit: DNA within the food that's bee.....»»
Webb Telescope proves galaxies transformed the early universe
In the early universe, the gas between stars and galaxies was opaque—energetic starlight could not penetrate it. But 1 billion years after the big bang, the gas had become completely transparent. Why? New data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.....»»
Targeted small molecule alleviates arthritis symptoms in mice
Researchers at the University of Helsinki, together with researchers from the United States, have discovered a small molecule that inhibits the formation in cells of cytokine proteins that promote inflammation. The mechanism is based on the fact that.....»»
Female scent found to accelerate growth in juvenile male mice
Exposing female house mice (Mus musculus) to the scent of male urine is known to accelerate their sexual development in what scientists call the Vandenbergh effect. A study recently published in Scientific Reports led by the University of Veterinary.....»»
Recombinant and tunable spidroin hydrogels for drug release and cell culture
In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet show that recombinant spider silk protein hydrogels have many attractive features. They allow encapsulation of cells and bioactive molecules simply by incubation at 37°C. They are transparent, whi.....»»
Spiny mice found to have bone-plated tails
Mammals are a bit odd when it comes to bones. Rather than the bony plates and scales of crocodiles, turtles, lizards, dinosaurs and fish, mammals long ago traded in their ancestral suit of armor for a layer of insulating hair......»»