TechnologyEx-Apple designer’s Ultra-Premium Audio Hardware Startup Syng raises $48.75 million Syng, an audio startup, has been generating a lot more buzz than the ordinary new hardware business, thanks to the people behind it. Chris Stringer,…
TechnologyClubhouse Announces Wave, Making it Easier to Start Casual Private Rooms The clubhouse is launching Wave today, a feature that makes it easy to start private rooms with friends when you see them online. Wave, which…
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ChemistryA Loop of Experimentation for Reproducing Nuclear Reactors in Space Nuclear energy is an excellent source of energy for space. Solar panels struggle to gather enough energy to power a spacecraft or probe as you…
PhysicsA Significant Breakthrough in Droplet Manipulation has been made by Researchers Researchers at the University of Hong Kong’s (HKU) Department of Mechanical Engineering have made a significant breakthrough in droplet manipulation. They’ve devised a novel method…
Environmental ScienceUnprecedented Arctic Ozone Hole Last Year Sparked by Record Heat in North Pacific The unusually large hole in ozone levels across the Arctic last year was probably caused by a series of events caused by record high sea…
Environmental ScienceTelltale Signs of an Approaching Mass Extinction Event are on the Rise, Scientists Say A troubling new study published in the journal Nature has uncovered a common feature of almost all mass extinction events throughout history, and warns that…
BiologyPrimate Mothers Carrying Infant Corpses Implies Awareness of Death Mothers have been spotted carrying their dead offspring in numerous monkey species — frequently long after death. Nonhuman primates exhibit a partial awareness of others’…
TechnologyOne Bitcoin Transaction Produces Double the E-Waste of Discarding an iPhone, Finds Study Cryptocurrency has taken the digital world by storm, with over 1,000,000 individual users mining Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies with their computer rigs, no matter…
PhysicsThrough Opaque Materials, Smuggling Light is Possible Duke University electrical engineers discovered that changing the physical shape of chalcogenide glasses, a class of materials commonly used in electronics and near- and mid-infrared…