Other Wireless Chargers We Tested Photograph: Simon Hill There are a lot of wireless chargers. Here are a few more we like, but for one reason or another don’t warrant a place above. Baseus Nomos 5-in-1 Charging Station for $150: If you liked the PicoGo W2 above but need more gadget-charging power, this 5-in-1 could … Read more
Credit: Artem Podrez from Pexels In 2023, an academic journal, the Annals of Operations Research, retracted an entire special issue because the peer review process for it was compromised. The case brought into sharp focus broader concerns about the peer review process in contemporary science. It showed that a process intended to catch problems with … Read more
When astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams embarked on Boeing’s Starliner capsule on June 5, 2024, they expected to be away from home for just over a week. Instead, they spent around 9 months in orbit on the International Space Station. But after over 286 days, their extended stay in space is finally coming to … Read more
Prototaxites formed tall structures like tree trunks, shown in this illustration of a landscape from the Silurian Period RICHARD JONES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A bizarre ancient organism previously thought to be a giant fungus may actually belong to an undiscovered branch of the tree of life that mysteriously went extinct. Prototaxites, which lived between 420 million … Read more
Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine uses mRNA technology Imago/Alamy This week, researchers in the US were told to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications to the National Institutes of Health. It is thought this move could be a precursor to a halt in US government funding of this kind of biomedical research, … Read more
On Thursday, the county on the northern border of Stevens, Grant County, also reported three confirmed cases, which were also linked to the first case in Stevens. Grant County is in a much better position to handle the outbreak than its neighbors; its one school district, Ulysses, reported 100 percent vaccination coverage for kindergartners in … Read more
Explore After 30 hours on a stormy sea aboard a Portuguese Navy ship, we finally made it to our destination in the middle of the ocean. Here, 124 miles or so off the coast of Lisbon, lies the tallest mountain in western Europe, only it’s underwater: the Gorringe Seamount. I had traveled there with an … Read more
There are, broadly speaking, two types of computer: The desktop and the laptop. Laptops’ portability has made them the more popular option, letting you work or play from a sofa or a coffee shop, as well as your actual desk. Desktops have their advantages though: The extra size means they can be more powerful, fitted … Read more
Key resources Key resources for this work, including novel plasmids deposited to Addgene, are listed in Supplementary Table 2. Plasmid DNA Standard molecular cloning techniques were used to generate DNA constructs in this study. Double-stranded DNA was synthesized by Integrated DNA Technologies and inserted into pAAV backbones with NEBuilder HiFi (New England Biolabs, E2621). sgRNA … Read more
Scientists have developed a new method to break down plastic waste, using moisture from the air. By exposing a common type of plastic to an inexpensive catalyst and leaving it exposed to ambient air, researchers broke down 94% of the material in just four hours. The plastic transformed into terephthalic acid (TPA), a highly valuable … Read more