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First mission for the Air Force’s flying hospital pods: Pulling COVID-19 patients from Afghanistan
The C-17 Globemaster III aircraft had three COVID-19 patients on board. (Staff Sgt. Devin Nothstine / U.S. Air Force/)Follow all of PopSci’s COVID-19 coverage here.Last week, an Air Force C-17 lifted off from...
Discovery offers new avenue for next-generation data storage
The demands for data storage and processing have grown exponentially as the world becomes increasingly connected, emphasizing the need for new materials capable of more efficient data storage and data...
Automated 'pipeline' improves access to advanced microscopy data
A new data-processing approach created by scientists at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute offers a simpler, faster path to data generated by cryo-electron microscopy instruments, removing a barrier...
Tandem solar cell world record
A special branch in the famous NREL-chart for solar cell world records refers to a newly developed tandem solar cell. The world-record cell combines the semiconductors perovskite and CIGS to...
Microsystem for faster, more sustainable industrial chemistry
A professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering used a lab reactor, liquefied catalyst, and machine learning for more efficient polymerization design.
Novel high-speed microscope captures brain neuroactivities
A research team has successfully recorded the millisecond electrical signals in the neurons of an alert mouse with their super high-speed microscope - two-photon fluorescence microscope. The new technique is...
Puzzle of Compton scattering solved: New approach for testing theories in quantum mechanics
Light can be used to knock electrons out of atoms, with light particles and electrons bouncing off each other like two billiard balls - Compton scattering. Why electrons can even...
Boson particles discovery provides insights for quantum computing
Researchers have discovered a key insight for the development of quantum devices and quantum computers. Scientists found that a class of particles known as bosons can behave as an opposite...
Four eco-friendly lawnmowers that don’t use gas
Tame your yard. ( Petar Tonchev via Unsplash/)Maintaining a traditional grass lawn takes a lot of labor, and while gas-powered mowers get the job done, they’re a polluter. If you aren’t yet ready...
Making cells ultra-heavy
The life of a fibroblast is heavy, but PhD student Julia Eckert makes it 19.5 times heavier, using the Large Diameter Centrifuge at the ESTEC space research centre in Noordwijk.
Smart lightbulbs with the power to transform your home
Customize home lighting from afar. (Delfi de la Rua via Unsplash/)In the 1980s, commercials for The Clapper brought the concept of sound-activated lighting to families everywhere. In 2012, we shared how you can...
Image: Power glove
Spacewalks are a risky business and wearing a spacesuit that protects against the vacuum outside our atmosphere is cumbersome. This glove is a mockup concept for astronauts that adds extra...
Technologies converge on interacting surfaces in protein complexes
Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have fine-tuned a method to pinpoint surfaces within large multi-protein complexes that are close to, and likely to be directly interacting with,...
Hierarchically mesoporous titanium dioxide materials for energy and environmental applications
Since the first discovery of photocatalytic water splitting on a TiO2 electrode under ultraviolet (UV) light, TiO2 materials have been widely investigated over the past few decades due to their...
Seeking sounds of superfluids
Sound waves reveal the unique properties of an ultracold quantum gas, a model system for describing certain superconductors and forms of nuclear matter. A new study examines the propagation of...
Supercomputing future wind power rise
First detailed study of scenarios for how wind energy can expand to 20 percent of total US electrical supply by 2030. Results showed expansion of installed capacity makes small impact...
Researchers create tiny self-powered temperature sensors
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, Delft University and IBM Zurich have demonstrated that graphene can be used to build sensitive and self-powering temperature sensors. The findings...
New electronic cooling technology to enable miniaturization of quantum computers
VTT researchers have successfully demonstrated a new electronic refrigeration technology that could enable major leaps in the development of quantum computers. Present quantum computers require extremely complicated and large cooling...
Substances trapped in nanobubbles exhibit unusual properties
Skoltech scientists modeled the behavior of nanobubbles appearing in van der Waals heterostructures and the behavior of substances trapped inside the bubbles. In the future, the new model will help...
A new material to print mechanically robust and shape-shifting structures
In recent years, 3-D printing has opened up interesting new possibilities for the large-scale production of electronic components, as well as of a variety of other objects. To this end,...
Here’s how the periodic table gets new elements
It’s not every day an element gets added to the periodic table. The last time it happened was 2016, when four new elements became official. For these elements, reaching the table...
Cleaner air with geothermal energy
The use of dirty coal as a heat source makes life tough in the Mongolian winter. ETH geophysicists are helping to develop geothermal energy as a clean alternative.
Watch: Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani sing 'Nobody But You' on 'Tonight Show'
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani performed their romantic duet "Nobody But You" on "The Tonight Show."
Seeking 'soundwaves' in the superfluid order parameter
A Swinburne University of Technology study published this week examines the propagation of energy as sound waves in a quantum gas, revealing for the first time strong variations in the...
Researchers develop fast, micrometer-size electro-optical modulator
Researchers at the George Washington University developed and demonstrated for the first time a silicon-based electro-optical modulator that is smaller, as fast as and more efficient than state-of-the-art technologies. By...
Famous birthdays for April 14: Julie Christie, Adrien Brody
Actor Julie Christie turns 80 and actor Adrien Brody turns 47, among the famous birthdays for April 14.
Breaking the size and speed limit of modulators: The workhorses of the internet
Researchers developed and demonstrated for the first time a silicon-based electro-optical modulator that is smaller, as fast as and more efficient than state-of-the-art technologies.
Pilots complete carrier qualifications aboard USS Gerald R. Ford
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford completed its qualifications for pilots in its first Fleet Replacement Squadron exercise, the U.S. Navy said.