Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, hopes its’ new, $1,500 ProQuest virtual reality headset will prove to be a better venue for virtual business meetings than personal computers.
Tag: Science
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ROOFTOP WIND TURBINE MAY MAKE MORE ENERGY, CHEAPER THAN SOLAR
Sandia National Laboratory, Texas Tech University, and BASF, the world’s largest chemicals manufacturer, are testing a wind energy generator by a Texas start-up called Aeromine Technologies that claims its design makes 150 percent more energy than a solar panel array of the same price and takes up a tenth of the space.
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BRAIN CELLS IN A LAB DISH LEARN TO PLAY A VIDEO GAME
Biologists and computer scientists at Australia’s Monash University have taught a cluster of brain cells living in a lab dish to play Pong, the rudimentary ping-pong video game from the 1970s.
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DID SCIENTISTS GET THE CAUSE OF ALZHEIMER’S WRONG?
Conventional scientific wisdom says that Alzheimer’s Disease is caused by a protein called amyloid-beta gathering in clots among brain cells, preventing them from communicating properly.
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A FIRST: SCIENTISTS REVERSE BENCHMARK SYMPTOMS OF AGING IN HUMANS
Two things happen to each of us as we age. First, the telomeres—the “end caps” on our DNA strands that protect our chromosomes—shorten.
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A BETTER WAY TO TURN STUBBORN PLASTICS INTO FUEL
Mixed or hard-to-recycle plastics could be turned into fuel by heating them in an oxygen-free chamber. However, the process—called “pyrolysis”— can only handle certain kinds of plastic and several of the tests are struggling to operate at commercial scale.
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A BETTER WAY TO MAKE BIOPLASTICS
Scientists at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center and Washington University have devised a smoother production process to turn waste carbon dioxide—CO2—into biodegradable plastics.
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NEW FORM OF PLASTIC FEEDS MARINE LIFE
The world is literally swimming in plastics, with an estimated 5.25 trillion bits of it in our seas and about 46,000 pieces per square mile of ocean, according to the United Nations Environment Programme.
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NANOBOTS CURE PNEUMONIA IN MICE
At the University of California at San Diego, bioengineers have created microscopic robots that entered the pneumonia-infected lungs of mice and cleared out the disease-causing bacteria.
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THE PAINLESS, SELF-ADMINISTERED TATTOO
Forget sitting for an hour or two, enduring pain and listening to a grating noise, while an over-decorated scribe slowly carves an image into your flesh, blotting your oozing blood from time to time.