Many seem to think that the next total solar eclipse in North America after April 8 is in 2044. There’s actually one coming much sooner, in Alaska.
The only people who absolutely disagree are, well, scientists. They need to get over themselves and join the fun.
As traditional top-down approaches like photolithography reach their limitations in creating nanostructures, scientists are shifting their focus toward bottom-up strategies. Central to this paradigm shift is the self-assembly of homogeneous soft matter, a burgeoning technique with the potential to produce complex nano-patterns on a vast scale.
A team led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan has succeeded in creating a strong coupling between two forms of waves—magnons and phonons—in a thin film. Importantly, they achieved this at room temperature, opening the way for the development of hybrid wave–based devices where information could be stored and manipulated in a variety of ways.
The study, which surveyed hundreds of university students, also found a link between heavy academic workload and increased ChatGPT usage.
With technology accelerating the transformation of work, we must replace traditional education systems with ones that allow workers to adapt and develop on the job #WEF24
The data surfaced online about two weeks ago and involve customer information from 2019 or earlier. There was no impact on operations, the company says.
Medical implants such as pacemakers and gastric stimulators have improved our lives, but the batteries in these devices eventually run out and require surgery to replace them.
It raises a futuristic question: what if there was a way to avoid cutting a patient’s body open to replace a battery?
A team of Chinese scientists have come up with a possible method to pull that off by developing an implantable battery that uses oxygen already inside the human body to continuously power itself up.
In an interview, University of Michigan civil engineer Sherif El-Tawil explained how often ships collide with bridges, what can be done to protect bridges from collisions, and how a similar disaster in Florida in 1980 – just three years after the Key bridge opened – changed the way bridges are built.
This is not the first time a ship has taken out a bridge. What’s the history of ship-bridge collisions?
This is an extremely rare event. To my knowledge, there are about 40 or so recorded events in the past 65 years that involved similar type of damage to a bridge caused by a ship. So they seem to occur on average about once every one and a half to two years around the world. When you consider that there are millions of bridges around the world – and most of them cross waterways – you can imagine how rare this is.
