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Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth by 40 percent

“Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch, and to deal with it, evolved an energy-expensive process called photorespiration that drastically suppresses their yield potential. Today, researchers from the …

Toshiba Announces 16TB MG08 Series Hard Disk Drives

“Industry’s largest capacity 16TB hard disk drives deliver new level of storage density and improved power efficiency. Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) announces MG08 Series, the industry’s largest capacity 16TB[1] [2] Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD …

Using Autonomous Vehicle Technology to Make Roads Safer Today

“Technologies Developed for Fully Autonomous Vehicles Can Improve the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Already in Wide Use Safety has always been our North Star. We view it as a moral imperative to pursue a future with autonomous vehicles (AV), but …

X-ray pulse detected near event horizon as black hole devours star

“Pulse pattern suggests distant black hole must be spinning at least at 50 percent the speed of light. On Nov. 22, 2014, astronomers spotted a rare event in the night sky: A supermassive black hole at the center of a …

3D printed rib implanted in the human body

“Innovative surgery for the world of medicine was performed in Bulgaria. In November cardiac surgeons at the clinic in Sofia implanted a rib that was made on a 3DGence 3D printer. This is one of the first case in the …

A sharper digital eye for intelligent devices with the latest Arm ISP technology

“New Arm Mali-C52 and Mali-C32 image signal processors (ISPs) provide class-leading image quality, a complete software package, and full set of calibration and tuning tools Higher image quality in a wide range of everyday devices including drones, smart home assistants …

China’s Chang’e-4 probe soft-lands on moon’s far side

“China’s Chang’e-4 probe touched down on the far side of the moon Thursday, becoming the first spacecraft soft-landing on the moon’s uncharted side never visible from Earth. The probe, comprising a lander and a rover, landed at …

Controllable fast, tiny magnetic bits

“MIT researchers show how to make and drive nanoscale magnetic quasi-particles known as skyrmions for spintronic memory devices. For many modern technical applications, such as superconducting wires for magnetic resonance imaging, engineers want as much as possible to get rid …

Customizing computer-aided design

“System breaks down complex designs into easily modifiable shapes for custom manufacturing and 3-D printing. MIT researchers have devised a technique that “reverse engineers” complex 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) models, making them far easier for users to customize for manufacturing …

Deep learning turns mono recordings into immersive sound

“We’ve had 3D images for decades, but effectively imitating 3D sound has always eluded researchers. Now a machine-learning algorithm can produce “2.5D” sound by watching a video. Listen to a bird singing in a nearby tree, and you …