Virtual reality becomes more engaging when designers use cinematic tools

Virtual reality becomes more engaging when designers use cinematic tools

Cinematography techniques can significantly increase user engagement with virtual environments and, in particular, the aesthetic appeal of what users see in virtual reality. This was the result of a recent study conducted by computer scientists at the University of Helsinki. The results were published in May at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing … Read more

Investigating the poisoning effect of carbon deposition during CO₂ electroreduction

Investigating the poisoning effect of carbon deposition during CO₂ electroreduction

Carbon deposition during the reaction. Credit: Precision Chemistry (2024). DOI: 10.1021/prechem.4c00002 A research team has proposed new understandings of the poisoning effect of carbon deposition during carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) on the active sites of Cu electrode. The study was published in Precision Chemistry. Copper (Cu)-based catalysts serve as the most efficient electrochemical catalysts … Read more

Biden signs bill banning imports of Russian uranium for nuclear fuel

Biden signs bill banning imports of Russian uranium for nuclear fuel

Ready-to-ship canisters filled with enriched uranium at the Urenco USA uranium enrichment facility near Eunice, New Mexico, US, on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is forcing the US and Europe to search for alternative sources of enriched uranium to power their reactors.  Mark Felix | Bloomberg | Getty Images The United States … Read more

New molecule mimics the anti-clotting action of blood-sucking organisms

Virtual reality becomes more engaging when designers use cinematic tools

Nature gave ticks, mosquitoes and leaches a quick-acting way to keep blood from clotting while they extract their meal from a host. Now the key to that method has been harnessed by a team of Duke researchers as a potential anti-clotting agent that could be used as an alternative to heparin during angioplasty, dialysis care, … Read more

Researchers elucidate ultrafast laser-induced solid-to-overdense-plasma transitions

Researchers elucidate ultrafast laser-induced solid-to-overdense-plasma transitions

Both single-shot probing technique and modeling approach for revealing the ultrafast laser-induced solid-to-plasma transition. Credit: TranSpread The interaction of solids with high-intensity ultra-short laser pulses has enabled major technological breakthroughs over the past half-century. On the one hand, laser ablation of solids offers micromachining and miniaturization of elements in medical or telecommunication devices. On the … Read more