Extending battery life for mobile devices: ‘Braidio’ tech lets mobile devices share power
In a paper presented today at the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group on data communication (SIGCOMM) conference in Florianópolis, Brazil, a team...
Scientists solve puzzle of converting gaseous carbon dioxide to fuel
Converting greenhouse gas emissions into energy-rich fuel using nano silicon (Si) in a carbon-neutral carbon-cycle is illustrated.Credit: Chenxi Qian
Every year, humans advance climate change...
Western diet increases Alzheimer’s risk
Globally, about 42 million people now have dementia, with Alzheimer's disease as the most common type of dementia. Rates of Alzheimer's disease are rising...
Potentially deadly heart condition plagues family members around same age
Ascending, descending, and abdominal aortas.Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Elefteriades and the Aortic Institute at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut
People with a family member who...
Solar activity has a direct impact on Earth’s cloud cover
A team of scientists from the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space) and the Racah Institute of Physics at...
Sitting in traffic jams is officially bad for you
Car windows closed with the fan/heating off in traffic is the best ventilation setting leading up to a 76% reduction in in-car pollutants. Also,...
Unexpected trove of gas discovered around larger stars
Artist impression of a debris disk surrounding a star in the Scorpius-Centaurus Association. ALMA discovered that -- contrary to expectations -- the more massive...
Can One Cosmic Enigma Help Solve Another?
Johns Hopkins astrophysicists argue fast radio bursts could provide clues to dark matter. (Credit: Alain r/Wikimedia Commons)
Astrophysicists from Johns Hopkins University have proposed a...
New map shows alarming growth of the human footprint
Slash-and-burn: The human footprint is heaviest in the world's biologically-richest areas, such as tropical rainforests. Here, farmers are burning the Amazon rainforest for charcoal.Credit:...
Severe obesity revealed as a stand-alone high-risk factor for heart failure
A study by Johns Hopkins researchers of more than 13,000 people has found that even after accounting for such risk factors as high blood...
New camera uses just 1 photon per pixel
1) The scene, taken with a normal digital camera. Photo provided by Feihu Xu, MIT. 2) The raw data captured by the SPAD camera,...
