Category: Science and Nature

NASA’s Artemis campaign aims to revisit the moon with a focus on the lunar south pole, targeting Shackleton Crater for its potential water ice reserves essential for future Mars missions. The campaign introduces two key challenges: developing an orienteering aid to help astronauts navigate lunar surfaces and creating a mapping system for Shackleton Crater’s extreme

Vortex rings, both in air and electromagnetic waves, are fascinating structures. Recent research has developed methods to emit electromagnetic vortex rings, offering potential applications in communication, sensing, and data processing. This technology may revolutionize wireless networks and pave the way for innovations in data storage and metrology…  » …

Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Micron Foundation announced an investment in four projects to advance STEM education training to foster a more robust microelectronics workforce. The investment, made possible through a Dear Colleague Letter, will support the development of highly effective K-12 teachers in high-need, underresourced school districts. Teachers will be more

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience, flying the Polaris Dawn private astronaut mission, fires its thrusters during a burn that raised its apogee to 1,400.7 kilometers on Sept. 10, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX) A commercial space crew has flown higher above Earth than anyone who has traveled since the last Apollo astronauts went to the moon. The

Maryam Shanechi, the Sawchuk Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of the USC Center for Neurotechnology, and her team have developed a groundbreaking AI algorithm that can separate brain patterns related to a particular behavior. Their research, published in Nature Neuroscience, holds great promise for advancing brain-computer interfaces and uncovering new brain

A breakthrough technique for growing minuscule metal nanowires (NWs) has been developed by a research team at Nagoya University in Japan. This innovation is poised to revolutionize next-generation electronics by enabling the mass production of pure metal NWs. The implications of this advancement extend to enhancing the efficiency of electronic production across various applications such

Facebook parent company Meta has admitted its millions of Australian users can’t opt out of having their data being used to train the company’s artificial intelligence models, even as users in the European Union are able to do so. Since changing its privacy policy for Australian users in June, Facebook has been hoovering up nearly

By Meaghan Tobin and John LiuSeptember 11, 2024 — 11.11am Over successive administrations, the US government has used stiff trade restrictions to try to stifle Chinese telecom giant Huawei. In turn, the company never misses an opportunity to show that it is still standing. Last year, at the tail end of a visit to China