Surrounded by flames, residents pull over on the side of the road while evacuating due to the Park Fire on July 26, 2024. Throngs of firefighters were mobilized in California Monday to battle the state’s largest blaze of the year, which has prompted thousands of evacuations and already burned an area larger than the city … Read more
From left to right: Xinchao Zhou, Prof. Chen-Lung Hung and Hikaru Tamura, Ph.D. Credit: Brian Powell Researchers at Purdue University have trapped alkali atoms (cesium) on an integrated photonic circuit, which behaves like a transistor for photons (the smallest energy unit of light) similar to electronic transistors. These trapped atoms demonstrate the potential to build … Read more
Spike shoe models used in the experiments. From top to bottom, Experiment 1: 824 TRAD (PUMA EvoSpeed Distance 9), TRAD+ (PUMA EvoSpeed Distance 9 + 200g); 825 Experiment 2: TRAD, AFTP1 (PUMA AFT middle-distance prototype spike); 826 Experiment 3: TRAD, AFTP2 (PUMA AFT long-distance prototype spike), AFTP3 827 (PUMA AFT middle-distance prototype spike); Experiment 4: … Read more
Daily global average temperature values from MERRA-2 for the years 1980-2022 are shown in white, values for the year 2023 are shown in pink, and values from 2024 through June are shown in red. Daily global temperature values from July 1-July 23, 2024, from GEOS-FP are shown in purple. Credit: NASA/Global Modeling and Assimilation Office/Peter … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Animal challenge studies completed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists show that infecting dairy cows with the H5N1 virus in a laboratory setting can trigger clinical signs of disease similar to those of naturally infected animals on dairy farms. Understanding how the virus is infecting cows and how the disease … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every clear night for the last three weeks, Bob Stephens has pointed his home telescope at the same two stars in hopes of witnessing one of the most violent events in the universe—a nova explosion a hundred thousand times brighter than the sun. The eruption, which scientists say could happen any … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The atmosphere, the ocean and life on Earth have interacted over the past 500-plus million years in ways that improved conditions for early organisms to thrive. Now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has produced a perspective article on this co-evolutionary history, published in National Science Review. “One of our tasks was … Read more
Analysis of spinodal decomposition and strengthening using nano-atomic-scale analysis. Credit: POSTECH Just as one side of a seesaw rises while the other falls, in the realm of metallic materials, “strength” and “elongation” typically conflict with each other. However, a collaborative team from POSTECH and Northwestern University has recently introduced a groundbreaking technology that enhances both … Read more
Lauren Magliozzi took water samples in Superior, CO after the Marshall Fire. Credit: Adam King Last week, wildfires blazed across western Canada, turning the town of Jasper, located near Alberta’s Jasper National Park, into ashes. The local government estimated that the fire damaged or destroyed up to half of the town’s structures. The wildfires carry a … Read more
Block diagram of a pipelined MSS8 corresponding to an MSS built for 𝑡=3. The green (red) arrows represent the smaller (larger) of the two outputs of the respective CAE units. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60319-9 It sounds fantastical, but it’s a reality for the scientists who work at the world’s largest particle collider. In … Read more
