The Quest to Uncover the Secrets of Gold Hydrogen
Industries want to harvest naturally occurring hydrogen as soon as possible, but scientists warn of unforeseen consequences......»»
High mountains, high diversity: For how long have the Andes controlled South America"s biodiversity?
With the aid of stable hydrogen isotopes in volcanic glass, an international research team, including Senckenberg geoscientist Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch, has studied the uplift history of the Andes Plateau. In their study, published in the journal Proc.....»»
New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way into Earth"s mantle
Scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SRI) say they've hit the jackpot with some valuable new information about the story of gold......»»
Apple Vision Pro mixed reality will make you feel bad for the Meta Quest 3
Mixed reality headset makers seem to face a choice: do it well, or do it cheap. Priced from $3500, Apple Vision Pro sure ain’t doing it cheap. The consensus from those who have tried Vision Pro, though, seems to be that the experience is technologi.....»»
Pulumi ESC gives organizations a central way to define and scale cloud applications
Pulumi announced Pulumi ESC, a new solution to manage environments, secrets, and configurations for cloud infrastructure and applications. Pulumi ESC enables developers to define reusable environments that combine secrets from multiple sources, inclu.....»»
Savoring the sweetness: Unraveling pineapple"s SWEET10 as a glucose transporter
Researchers from Professor Yuan Qin's group at Guangxi University have now harnessed cutting-edge AlphaFold technology to unveil the hidden secrets of sugar transporter proteins, known as SWEET (Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters)......»»
Claudia Goldin: Nobel-winning sleuth of the gender pay gap
Claudia Goldin has long thought of herself as a kind of detective within economics, employing tools across academic disciplines in a quest to examine how women fit into the workforce......»»
Meta Quest 3 review: the VR headset you’ve been waiting for
Meta's Quest 3 costs $200 more than the Quest 2. How much have performance, graphics, mixed-reality, and comfort improved and is it worth the price?.....»»
How one NASA lander decoded secrets lying beneath the surface of Mars
Using new instruments and clever science, the Mars Insight lander left us with incredible new insight into the belly of the red planet......»»
Researchers catch protons in the act of dissociation with ultrafast "electron camera"
Scientists have caught fast-moving hydrogen atoms—the keys to countless biological and chemical reactions—in action......»»
Chiro-optical force observed at the nanoscale
A research group at the Institute for Molecular Science has successfully observed the left and right handedness of material structures at the nanoscale, by illuminating chiral gold nanostructures with circularly polarized light and detecting the opti.....»»
Precise genome engineering and protein activity profiling uncover new cancer drug targets
Searching for new ways to block the growth of cancer cells is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Tumor cells rely on thousands of proteins to function, but only a few of those proteins can be precisely targeted by drugs to treat cancer safely a.....»»
Scientists unlock the secrets of a sixth basic flavor
Japanese scientist Kikunae Ikeda first proposed umami as a basic taste—in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter—in the early 1900s. About eight decades later, the scientific community officially agreed with him......»»
Exploring stellar hydrogen burning via muons and nuclei
The muon is a subatomic particle that resembles an electron but is 200 times heavier. It interacts with nuclei through the weak force, one of the four fundamental forces in the universe. When a muon binds with a deuteron (composed of one proton and o.....»»
Nobel prize in physics awarded for work unveiling the secrets of electrons
The 2023 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists for pioneering tools used to study the world of electrons......»»
A precise test of quantum electrodynamics: Measuring the g factor of electrons in hydrogen-like tin
Quantum electrodynamics is the best-tested theory in physics. It describes all electrical and magnetic interactions of light and matter. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik in Heidelberg (MPIK) have now used precision measurements o.....»»
Original Apple Watch, including $17,000 gold model, no longer eligible for repairs
It’s been nine years since Apple announced the very first Apple Watch to the world – although it only hit the stores in April 2015. In 2021, the first-generation Apple Watch entered Apple’s list of “vintage” products, which means that repai.....»»
The $10,000-plus golden Apple Watch is now “obsolete,” according to Apple
The point of it was never how it worked. Now it will struggle to work at all. Enlarge / 18-karat rose gold Apple Watches on display, ready for you to invest more than five figures into their inevitably limited lifespan as a funct.....»»
A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain Cells
Mini-brains that work and grow like their full-sized counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing, and advance the quest for personalized medicine......»»
Shift Happens is a beautifully designed history of how keyboards got this way
Marcin Wichary on his long quest to capture everything that shaped modern type. Enlarge / Marcin Wichary's photos of an Olivetti Praxis 48 electric typewriter. (credit: Marcin Wichary) It's the 150th anniversary of the Q.....»»
How are ancient Roman and Mayan buildings still standing? Scientists are unlocking their secrets
In the quest to build better for the future, some are looking for answers in the long-ago past......»»