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Could acid-neutralizing life-forms make habitable pockets in Venus’ clouds?

“A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions. It’s hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor. With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide, and …

Fast and durable batteries to come: A Promising Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries

“The proposed stable anode material, made with a bio-based polymers, could unlock extremely fast battery charging for electric vehicles To overcome the slow charging times of conventional lithium-ion batteries, scientists from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed …

Fundamental Holography: ITMO Researchers Develop Method for Printing Holograms in Color

“Scientists from ITMO’s ChemBio Cluster developed a method for printing holograms in color in a project supported by the Russian Science Foundation. At the core of the method are volume Bragg gratings, special films with reflecting properties. The proposed …

Georgia Tech Researchers Develop New Measurements For Designing Cooler Electronics

“When cell phones, electric vehicle chargers, or other electronic devices get too hot, performance degrades, and eventually overheating can cause them to shut down or fail. In order to prevent that from happening researchers are working to solve the problem …

How NASA’s Psyche Mission Will Explore an Unexplored World

“Launching in August 2022 and arriving at the asteroid belt in 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will orbit a world we can barely pinpoint from Earth and have never visited. The target of NASA’s Psyche mission – a metal-rich asteroid …

Integrated photonics meet electron microscopy

“Scientists in Switzerland and Germany have achieved efficient electron-beam modulation using integrated photonics – circuits that guide light on a chip. The experiments could lead to entirely new quantum measurement schemes in electron microscopy. The transmission electron microscope (TEM) can image …

IT Security: Computer Attacks with Laser Light

“Computer systems that are physically isolated from the outside world (air-gapped) can still be attacked. This is demonstrated by IT security experts of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the LaserShark project. They show that data can be transmitted …

James Webb Space Telescope reaches launch pad for Christmas liftoff

“After more than two decades of development, NASA’s next-generation space telescope is on the launch pad. The James Webb Space Telescope is due to launch on Saturday (Dec. 25) during a 32-minute window that opens at 7:20 a …

Mach 30 wind tunnel to ‘put China decades’ ahead in hypersonic race

“A Chinese physicist has said that a new wind tunnel in Beijing to be unveiled “soon” will put China decades ahead of the rest of the world in hypersonic technology. Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Han Guilai told an online …

Magnetic ‘hedgehogs’ could store big data in a small space

“New study reveals a zoo of magnetic patterns at the atomic scale Atomic-scale magnetic patterns resembling a hedgehog’s spikes could result in hard disks with massively larger capacities than today’s devices, a new study suggests. The finding could …