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    Physicists observe Room-Temperature Superconductivity

    October 15, 2020, Categories  Physics

    UNLV physicist Ashkan Salamat (above), along with colleague Ranga Dias, assistant professor of physics and mechanical engineering at the University of Rochester, established room-temperature superconductivity in a diamond anvil cell – a small, handheld, and commonly used research device that enables the compression of tiny materials to extreme pressures. The phenomena, reported today as the cover story in the journal Nature, has implications for how energy is stored and transmitted. (Josh Hawkins/UNLV Photo Services)

    The discovery opens door for reimagining the energy grid, technology, society...

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    The Mountains of Pluto are Snowcapped, but not for the same reasons as on Earth

    October 14, 2020, Categories  Astronomy/Space, Chemistry/Nanotechnology

    At left, the “Cthulhu” region near Pluto’s equator, at right the Alps on Earth. Two identical landscapes created by highly different processes.
    © NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
    © Thomas Pesquet/ESA

    In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape had never before been observed elsewhere in the Solar System. However, as atmospheric temperatures on our planet decrease at altitude, on Pluto they heat up at altitude as a result of solar radiation.

    So where does this ice come from? An international team led by CNRS scientists* conducted this exploration...

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    Technique to Recover Lost Single-Cell RNA-sequencing Information

    October 14, 2020, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    Seq-Well resolution example
    MIT researchers have greatly boosted the amount of information that can be obtained using Seq-Well, a technique for rapidly sequencing RNA from single cells. This advance should enable scientists to learn much more about the critical genes that are expressed in each cell, and help them to discover subtle differences between healthy and dysfunctional cells for designing new preventions and cures. This image illustrates the improved resolution, right, using the new technique.
    Credits:Courtesy of the researchers. Edited by MIT News.

    Boosting the efficiency of single-cell RNA-sequencing helps reveal subtle differences between healthy and dysfunctional cells. Sequencing RNA from individual cells can reveal a great deal of information about what those cells are doing in the body...

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    Researchers are working on Tech so Machines can Thermally ‘Breathe’

    October 14, 2020, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    UCF researchers working on a cooling system for electronics
    UCF mechanical and aerospace engineering researchers Khan Rabbi and Shawn Putnam are developing new ways to cool machines and electronics. Rabbi is a doctoral candidate in the department, and Putnam is an associate professor.

    In the era of electric cars, machine learning and ultra-efficient vehicles for space travel, computers and hardware are operating faster and more efficiently. But this increase in power comes with a trade-off: They get superhot.

    To counter this, University of Central Florida researchers are developing a way for large machines to “breathe” in and out cooling blasts of water to keep their systems from overheating.

    The findings are detailed in a recent study in the journal Physical Review Fluids.

    The process is much like how humans and some animals breath in...

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