Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Rishi Sunak is facing an uphill battle to make the general election a presidential-style contest, as a shock new poll reveals he is voters’ … Read more
Researchers have developed an augmented reality head-up display that could improve road safety by displaying potential hazards as high-resolution three-dimensional holograms directly in a driver’s field of vision in real time. Current head-up display systems are limited to two-dimensional projections onto the windscreen of a vehicle, but researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover isn’t on the move, it works pretty well as a sundial, as seen in two black-and-white videos recorded on Nov. 8, the 4,002nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rover captured its own shadow shifting across the surface of Mars using its black-and-white Hazard-Avoidance … Read more
File: Snow blankets Scottish towns as Met Office issues two weather warnings Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Hundreds of trains have been cancelled on Sunday leaving New Year’s Eve plans in tatters across the UK. Several rail companies have warned passengers … Read more
Dog owners may need to learn to appreciate their best friend’s urine. Scientists at Osaka Metropolitan University have devised an efficient, non-invasive, and pain-free method to reprogram canine stem cells from urine samples, bringing furry companions one step closer to veterinary regenerative treatment. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been widely employed in studies on … Read more
To probe the spatial information of dark counts, we introduced the differential readout method, which utilizes two identical readout channels for tracing the output signals produced by the same dark count event. Two bias-tees (Mini-Circuits, ZX86-12G-S + ) were applied to separate the bias current and output signals. The signals from the two different terminals … Read more
Kyiv suffers largest ever drone attack by Russia leaving five wounded For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Russia said 20 people, including two children, have been killed in “indiscriminate” Ukrainian strikes on the Russian … Read more
Species throughout the animal kingdom feature vital interfaces between the outermost layers of their bodies and the environment. Intricate microscopic structures — featured on the outer skin layers of humans, as one example — are known to assemble in matrix patterns. But how these complex structures, known as apical extracellular matrices (aECMs) are assembled into … Read more
The procedure of electrified NOx storage–reduction. Credit: NIMTE Prof. Zhang Jian’s group from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, cooperating with Prof. Zhang Zhaoliang’s group from University of Jinan, has developed a novel electrification strategy to improve NOx pollutant removal performance at low temperatures. The study was … Read more
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Australians and New Zealanders are making final preparations on New Year’s Eve to become among the first nations to ring in 2024 as ongoing wars in Ukraine and … Read more
