Monthly Archive: February 2024
Scientists have identified a tiny fish with a “voice” as loud as a jet engine. AI generated by DALL-E – By Michael Irving 2024 Feb 27 – A tiny, newly-discovered minnow has measured louder than gunshots, jet engines or most competition-grade car stereos on …
‘The Lawnmower’ is the first synthetic molecular motor that propels itself using the energy it harnesses when it cuts through proteins. AI-generated using DALL-E. – By Paul McClure 2024 Feb 27 – The body uses protein-based molecular motors to perform functions essential to life. …
Pengju Li, a researcher on the study, holds a prototype pacemaker that’s only 1 micrometer thick, and operated by light pulses. Jean Lachat – By Michael Irving 2024 Feb 26 – Scientists at the University of Chicago have developed a new pacemaker that’s thinner …
Digit, which can walk forwards, backwards and sideways and crouch, is 5ft 9in and carries up to 35lb. Photograph: Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images – Amazon Digit will begin its time on the floor by shifting empty tote boxes amid concerns humans will be shifted …
Members of the Snake River Hotshot crew monitor a prescribed fire near Roberts, Idaho. Austin Catlin/BLM – By Camille Stevens-Rumann, Associate Professor of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University And by Jude Bayham, Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State …
The pandemic spurred an increase in COVID-19 research, much of it with methodological holes. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images – By Dennis M. Gorman, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A&M University Published: 2024 Feb 23 – Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers …
Red-backed voles may be harboring Alaskapox. iNaturalist Ecuador, CC BY-NC-SA – By Raúl Rivas González, Catedrático de Microbiología. Miembro de la Sociedad Española de Microbiología, Universidad de Salamanca – Published: 2024 Feb 21 – Alaskapox, a virus in the same family as smallpox, …
It’s hypothesized that certain genetic ADHD traits may have benefited nomadic tribes by increasing exploratory behaviors. AI-generated by DALL-E – By Rich Haridy 2024 Feb 20 – While current diagnostic definitions of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are relatively new, the general condition has been …
Researchers created specific brain cells from stem cells using differently charged hydrogels. AI generated by DALL-E – By Paul McClure 2024 Feb 21 – Damaged brain tissue can be re-grown using a new method that lets researchers guide stem cells into exactly the type …
A new solar cell design consisting of “hemispheres” on the surface, like braille dots, could improve efficiency. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2024 Feb 18 – Solar cell efficiency may get a bump from bumps. New research suggests that building tiny domes into the …
