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“China’s Chang’e-4 lunar rover has discovered an unusually colored, ‘gel-like’ substance during its exploration activities on the far side of the moon. The mission’s rover, Yutu-2, stumbled on that surprise during lunar day 8. The discovery prompted …
“Solugen’s engineered enzymes offer a cheaper, safer, and far less toxic way to produce the chemical. The most common process for making hydrogen peroxide begins with a highly toxic, flammable working solution that is combined with hydrogen, filtered, combined …
“MIT Professor Frances Ross is pioneering new techniques to study materials growth and how structure relates to performance. A hundred years ago, “2d” meant a two-penny, or 1-inch, nail. Today, “2-D” encompasses a broad range of atomically thin flat materials …
“BMBF Funds Accelerator Research at KIT with about EUR 3 Million under the Program “Erforschung von Universum und Materie – ErUM” Particle accelerators are key instruments for cutting-edge research in biology, medicine, materials science, and chemistry. They enable deep insight into …
“Engineers at the University of Birmingham have successfully designed a robotic system that can perform a key task in disassembling component parts. The research is an important advance for manufacturers looking for more efficient ways to build products from a …
“For the first time, a team led by Innsbruck physicist Ben Lanyon has sent a light particle entangled with matter over 50 km of optical fiber. This paves the way for the practical use of quantum networks and sets a …
“Robots that can control puppets could one day learn to manipulate complex physical objects like clothing and flexible sheets As far as I know, the universe does not have a desperate need for robot puppeteers, and considering the difficulty of …
“Hyundai Motor Group has developed the new Vest EXoskeleton (VEX), a wearable robot created to assist industrial workers who spend long hours working in overhead environments. The VEX enhances productivity and reduces fatigue of industrial workers by imitating the movement …
News IBM Gives Away PowerPC; Goes Open Source - Want to Design Your Own 64-bit RISC Processor on the Cheap?
“Remember PowerPC? Nah, me neither. But now it can be yours. For free. Srsly. IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation, making it freely available to anyone who wants it. It’s a no-cost, royalty-free …
“After I had finished a tuning fork oscillator, my brother challenged me to make an oscillator using a wineglass. ( https://www.instructables.com/id/Tuning-Fork-Osci… ) He thought it would be more difficult to use a wineglass than a tuning fork …