A new microscopic method reveals hidden defects in reactor welds, unlocking safer and strongest designs for the future of merger energy. As the global effort intensifies to build the first commercial nuclear fusion energy plant, engineers of the University of Surrey have achieved significant advance to understand how soldiers sold in extreme conditions work in…
Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1021/JACS.5C00861 Heavy actinids (elements at the bottom of the periodic table, after plutonium) are radioactive, rare and chemically complex, which makes them notoriously difficult to study. Most of the studies carried out in these elements have traditionally carried out a time of a moment or extrapolated…
Every second counts when it comes to detecting and treating heart attacks. That is where a new technology from the University of Mississippi enters to identify heart attacks faster and more precise than traditional methods. In a study published in intelligent systems, blockchain and communication technologies, the assistant professor of electrical engineering Kasem Khalil shows…
Fast facts Origin of the word “robot” ‘: The 1920 “Rossum’s Universal Robots” work by Karel čopek The first robot: BindCreated in 1954 by the American George Retol The largest humanoid robot: Mononofua humanoid vehicle that is 27.75 feet (8,46 meters) high The smallest humanoid robot: Mitsuya Tatsuhiko’s little humanoid robot, which measures alone 2.27…
Plastic pollution is one of the fastest growing environmental threats. Microplastics and nanoplastic are everywhere: in our drinking water, the air we breathe and even ours brains. Beizhan Yan, an environmental geochemist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which is part of the Columbia climate school, has presented new methods to detect and analyze these particles…
If I kept a penny from a distance of 160 feet (50 meters) away, it would occupy more area in the sky than this section of the original field image of the original Hubble. Here you can see several hundred galaxies, with even more lies beyond brightness and hubble wavelength capabilities. (Credit: R. Williams (STSCI),…
The care of parents in nature can occur in different ways and vary in intensities and strategies, being maternal care one of the patterns widely observed in animals. In spiders, parents’ investment is carried out mainly by women. Despite this, newborn eggs can still be the objectives of a series of natural enemies. In a…
Ayahuasca, a psychedelic medicine traditionally used by indigenous communities in South America, has become fashionable, with celebrities such as the Sting musician, actress Lindsay Lohan and the NFL Marshal of the NFL Aaron Rogers that drink him to make a trip to his subconscious minds. When used to treat mental health, some studies have shown…
It was approximately one in the morning, four hours after an explosion crossed the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, when Ed Smylie realized that they had to do something about carbon dioxide. What happened next is Now history of historical spaceinvolving how to place a square plug on a round hole….
After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole, reveal new space rocks created by a NASA asteroid-impact mission and pinpoint the origin of a particularly intense, mysterious burst of radio…