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Zap! California startup touts its new battery technology as a fast-charging ‘universal…
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Officials at a startup based in Carlsbad, California, expect a battery technology they have engineered…
Should the SEC ditch quarterly reporting?
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In the minds of some, the manifold ills of corporate capitalism have a single source: short-termism.…
Waterfront cities in Europe set sail for climate resilience
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A group of European urban areas bordering seas and rivers is paving the way for climate…
Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again
A flare burns at a well pad Aug. 26, 2021, near Watford City, N.D. The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs in 2023,…
Prehistoric henge reveals centuries-old sacred site in Lincolnshire
An aerial view of the excavation site at Crowland. Credit: The Anchor Church Field Project
Archaeologists from Newcastle University have…
Researchers closer to near real-time disaster monitoring
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When disaster hits, a quick and coordinated response is needed, and that requires data to assess the nature of the…
For mining in arid regions to be responsible, we must change how we think about water, say…
A better understanding of the complex hydrology in arid regions will give environmental managers the information they need to make the best possible decisions. Credit:…
Innovative sensing platform unlocks ultrahigh sensitivity in conventional sensors
EP-enhanced phase sensing platform. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl5037
Optical sensors serve as the backbone of…
A Soyuz capsule carrying 3 crew from the International Space Station lands safely in Kazakhstan
NASA's Loral O'Hara, left, Russia’s Oleg Novitsky and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, right, are seen inside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after they…
Fire safety tips for e-bikes and e-scooters – Fire Line
The popularity of electric bikes and electric scooters (e-bikes and e-scooters) have grown a lot lately. Most use lithium-ion batteries to work. But if these batteries get damaged or used the wrong way, they can catch fire or even…
Key technologies in digital twin of railway wireless network
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The architecture of…
NASA noise prediction tool supports users in air taxi industry
An OVERFLOW modeling image from the manufacturer Joby Aviation. Credit: Joby Aviation
Several air taxi companies are using a…
Sanction the use of cyberweapons, not the weapons themselves, concludes expert review
Classification of challenges into structural (left) and process-related (right) challenges. Credit: Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (2023). DOI:…
Apple explores making personal robots: Report
Apple watchers have been waiting in vain for the company to launch a new product that disrupts a market the way the iPhone shook up the smartphone world.…
Researchers unveil time series deep learning technique for optimal performance in AI models
Comparison of test losses for Neural SDEs with six different diffusion functions on the ‘BasicMotions’ dataset at a 50% missing rate. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI:…
Meta to start labeling AI-generated content in May
Meta’s new "Made with AI" labels will identify content created or altered with AI, including video, audio, and images.
Facebook and…
Developing artificial skin that can regenerate skin and transmit sensation at the same time
Characteristics of the WPPFM and neural interface electrodes. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44064-7
Damage…
Advances in understanding COPV structural life
Figure 1. Illustration of COPV major components. Credit: NASA
The Structures Technical Discipline Team (TDT) was involved in numerous…
Without community support, the green energy transition will fail: How to get communities on board
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Connecting cheap, clean energy from renewables comes with a hidden cost and challenge: building 5,000…
Chipless fiber for wireless visual-to-digital transmission senses interactions with the human body
Comparison between (A) conventional chip-based wireless e-textile and (B) chip-based wireless e-textile in this work. Credit: Science (2024). DOI:…
A framework to improve air-ground robot navigation in complex occlusion-prone environments
(a) Previous navigation systems had problems predicting occlusions, resulting in higher collision probabilities and suboptimal pathways that consumed more energy.…
Do immigrants and immigration help the economy?
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When Americans mark their presidential election ballots later this year, immigration will be top of mind—it's the…
Textiles and food packaging biggest source of PFAS in Yangtze River
The Yangtze River. Credit: Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay
The first study of toxic "forever chemicals" along the full length of…
How Taiwan managed to keep its death toll so low during the 7.4-magnitude earthquake
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A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has rocked the east coast of Taiwan—the largest the island nation has seen in…
Africa’s carbon sink capacity is shrinking
Spatial pattern of trends in annual mean NBP (gC m−2yr−1) across Africa over 2000 to 2019 based on an ensemble of 17 Dynamic Global Vegetation Models from TRENDY v9.…
Early herding communities used a wide variety of livestock management strategies, study finds
Dental pieces from sheep found in the Cueva de El Toro sampled for this study. Credit: Alejandro Sierra, UAB
The study of the feeding pattern…
With the planet facing a ‘polycrisis,’ biodiversity researchers uncover major knowledge…
Directionality of mechanistic links between climate change, biodiversity, and infectious disease. Credit: The Lancet Planetary Health (2024). DOI:…
Researchers find the link between human activity and shifting weather patterns in western North…
This study explores the impact of human-induced climate change on Northern Hemisphere winter weather, highlighting the dominant role of specific teleconnection…
New fossil dolphin identified
The Aureia rerehua fossil. Credit: University of Otago
University of Otago researchers have formally identified and named a fossil dolphin…
Mayor Harrell Proposes $1.35B Transportation Levy for Safe, Reliable, and Connected Seattle –…
Mayor Harrell’s draft Transportation Levy Proposal would fund SDOT to maintain and modernize Seattle’s transportation system, deliver major projects, and support better, safer connections in neighborhoods throughout the city.…
Blowing in the Patagonian Wind
Strong northwesterly winds often race down the eastern side of the Andes Mountains and…
Propelling atomically layered magnets toward green computers
Globally, computation is booming at an unprecedented rate, fueled by the boons of artificial intelligence. With this, the staggering energy demand of the world’s computing infrastructure has become a major…
Pygmy Slow Lorises Are Born at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute |…
For the first time, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) is celebrating the birth of two pygmy slow lorises, an endangered species. Small Mammal House keepers reported for duty the morning of…
Austin’s drinking water easily passes first round of EPA’s PFAS ‘forever chemical’ monitoring tests
Austin Water released today the results of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) water quality tests, which show little to no detectable traces of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – or PFAS – chemicals in the City’s drinking water.
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Grand Opening All New Green Lake Community Boathouse April 13, 2024 – Parkways
Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) is happy to announce the new Green Lake Community Boathouse at the Small Craft Center in Green Lake Park is substantially complete. Together with our community partners, we will be hosting a grand…
New Maps for Tree Public Notices & Tree Tracking Data Now Available!
Last year, the City of Seattle adopted new codes and regulations regarding tree protection, tree service providers, and tree public notices. These new regulations help the City balance tree protection and housing production. Trees add…
Austin Public Health Highlighting Staff and Services for National Public Health Week
AUSTIN, Texas - The sun is out, flowers are in bloom, and it’s the start of National Public Health Week – What more could you want? It’s hard to believe that just four years ago, staff didn’t have time to recognize this week as they were…
Rivers of the Andean Foothills
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this nadir photograph of the…
The 60 Years of Queer and Trans Activism and Care Project: Learning to Conduct Archival Research and…
1. IntroductionIn this piece, we discuss an exciting full-year undergraduate research course which provided students an opportunity to conduct archival research on six decades of queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour…
Storefront Repair Fund Grant Helps Cobbler Take on Challenges – Bottom Line
The skills needed to be a cobbler include sewing, dying, and polishing. If you ask Shelly Luhman, it also requires skills beyond being able to mend a shoe.
Shelly Luhman with two pairs of shoes.
“You can’t be afraid to try new…
Aquaculture in the Tumbes River Delta
Near the border of Peru and Ecuador, the Tumbes River winds its way through forests and…
NSF supporting once-in-a-generation science enabled by total solar eclipse
As the total solar eclipse on April 8 draws near, the U.S. National Science Foundation will be celebrating this celestial occasion — which won't be visible from North America again until 2044 — by sponsoring educational activities and…
University of Texas at Austin & Austin Parks and Recreation Partner for Eclipse Viewing…
Thanks to a partnership between the Austin Parks and Recreation Department and The University of Texas at Austin, Austin residents in all 10 City Council districts will have the chance to experience up-close solar viewings during the…
OSE is Hiring! – Greenspace
From passing landmark new legislation to reduce climate pollution from Seattle’s largest buildings to collaborative efforts to equitably grow and protect Seattle’s tree canopy cover, 2023 was a great year for advancing climate action…
A first-ever complete map for elastic strain engineering
Without a map, it can be just about impossible to know not just where you are, but where you’re going, and that’s especially true when it comes to materials properties.
For decades, scientists have understood…
Low Energy Availability and Eating Disorders Risk: A Comparison between Elite Female Adolescent…
1. IntroductionLow energy availability (LEA) occurs when either the energy intake is too low or the energy output through training is too high, leading to an insufficient amount of energy left to maintain normal physiological functions…
Shining a light on oil fields to make them more sustainable
Operating an oil field is complex and there is a staggeringly long list of things that can go wrong.
One of the most common problems is spills of the salty brine that’s a toxic byproduct of pumping oil. Another…
Haunted Monasteries: Troubling Indigenous Erasure in Early Colonial Mexican Architecture
1. IntroductionAround 1595, a Franciscan missionary, Fray Gerónimo de Mendieta, told one of colonial Mexico’s earliest ghost stories in his chronicle, the Historia eclesiástica indiana (Mendieta 1997, vol. 2, pp. 140–41).1 Addressed to…
ARTS at King Street Station: April Exhibitions
ARTS at King Street Station: April ExhibitionsSilkpunk Grasshopper Leg Transport by June Sekiguchi. Photo by Mark Woods.
Join us on First Thursday, April 4, to view THREE shows at ARTS at King Street Station! Celebrate the openings of…