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    Self-Powered Wearable Tech

    May 5, 2019, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    For emerging wearable tech to advance, it needs improved power sources. Now researchers from Michigan State University have provided a potential solution via crumpled carbon nanotube forests, or CNT forests.
    Credit: Courtesy of MSU

    For emerging wearable tech to advance, it needs improved power sources. Now researchers from Michigan State University have provided a potential solution via crumpled carbon nanotube forests, or CNT forests.

    Changyong Cao, director of MSU’s Soft Machines and Electronics Laboratory, led a team of scientists in creating highly stretchable supercapacitors for powering wearable electronics...

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    Hubble Spots a Stunning Spiral Galaxy

    May 5, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    NGC 2903 is located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (the Lion), and was studied as part of a Hubble survey of the central regions of roughly 145 nearby disk galaxies.
    Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Ho et al.

    NGC 2903 is located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (the Lion), and was studied as part of a Hubble survey of the central regions of roughly 145 nearby disk galaxies. Few of the universe’s residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy...

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    Hubble astronomers assemble Wide View of the Evolving Universe

    May 4, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    apparent size comparison of Legacy Field mosaic with full Moon
    This graphic compares the dimensions of the Hubble Legacy Field on the sky with the angular size of the Moon. The Hubble Legacy Field is one of the widest views ever taken of the universe with Hubble. The new portrait, a mosaic of nearly 7,500 exposures, covers almost the width of the full Moon. The Moon and the Legacy Field each subtend about an angle of one-half a degree on the sky (or half the width of your forefinger held at arm’s length).
    Credits: Hubble Legacy Field Image: NASA, ESA, and G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz); Moon Image: NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center and Arizona State University


    Astronomers have put together the largest and most comprehensive “history book” of galaxies into one single image, using 16 years’ worth of observations ...

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    Synthetic Biology used to Target Cancer Cells while Sparing Healthy Tissue

    May 4, 2019, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    (Top) some types of cancers are caused by mutated or overexpressed cell surface proteins that signal to the nucleus (green pathway) to drive uncontrolled growth and survival. (Bottom) Using an approach called RASER, the cancer-causing signals are redirected away from cell growth and survival and toward programmed cell death (orange pathway).
    Michael Lin and Stuart Jantzen

    Synthetic proteins engineered to recognize overly active biological pathways can kill cancer cells while sparing their healthy peers, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine...

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