Influencers’ vulnerabilities found to be a double-edged sword
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The old adage states, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” But what if work in a kitchen pays the bills? This …
Nanotech
ESA’s tiny pinhole thruster is ready for production
Credit: IENAI Space Rocket propulsion technology has progressed leaps and bounds since the first weaponized rockets of the Chinese and Mongolian empires. They were nothing more than rocket-powered arrows and …
New crystalline sponge method proposed for undergraduate courses
The crystalline sponge method allows for direct and precise molecular structure determination of liquid and gaseous targets and thus has been recognized as a revolutionary breakthrough in crystallography. To expose …
New ultra-short period binary discovered
TMTS light curve and Lomb–Scargle periodogram for J0526. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.13612 Using the Tsinghua University–Ma Huateng Telescopes for Survey (TMTS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a …
Powerful earthquakes leave at least 48 dead, destroy buildings along Japan’s western coast
People walk by a building collapsed following an earthquake in Shikamachi, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. A series of powerful earthquakes in western Japan damaged homes, cars and …
HKDC1 protein found crucial to maintaining two mitochondria subcellular structures, mitochondria and lysosomes
Overview: Both mitochondrial and lysosomal stress stimulate TFEB nuclear translocation, followed by increased HKDC1 expression. HKDC1 stabilizes PINK1 through interaction with TOM70, thereby facilitating PINK1/Parkin-dependent mitophagy. Additionally, HKDC1 and the …
How farmers in the Sahel grow crops with little to no water
(a) In Mboro, Meouane Department, Senegal, Modou Fall has carved up his onion plot with little indentations to keep manure and water supplies concentrated at the roots; (b) in Medina …
An eco-friendly and innovative approach
A team of researchers now present an eco-friendly and innovative approach for the blue light-promoted synthesis of heterocyclic thiochromenopyrroledione derivatives catalyzed by titanium dioxide. Credit: Professor Yutaka Hitomi, Doshisha University …
Selective conversion of CO₂ into dimethyl ether over hydrophobic and gallium-modified copper catalysts
The proximity of Cu and Ga species over Cu/Ga-SiO2-20Me catalyst could simultaneously realize tandem reactions of hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol and dehydration of methanol to DME, where further transportation …
Hubble captures throng of spiral galaxies
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; CC BY 4.0 Acknowledgement: L. Shatz This Hubble Picture of the Week features a richness of spiral galaxies: the large, prominent …