New bioelectronic microdevices enable remote cell stimulation using ultrasound

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM-CSIC) have developed a new generation of wireless piezoelectric microdevices capable of ...
AZoNano

Penguin-Inspired Nanohelices Keep LiDAR Clear in Fog and Rain

Researchers developed penguin-inspired Cu@SiO2 nanohelices that protect LiDAR windows by combining sunlight-driven ...
Microsoft

AI chips are getting hotter. A microfluidics breakthrough goes straight to the silicon to cool up to three times better.

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...
CNN

Carbon dioxide levels are higher than humans have ever experienced. It could be changing our blood chemistry

As humans burn fossil fuels and pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we are heating up the planet. But there is another alarming impact of this climate pollution: it may be changing the chemistry ...
Health.com

Health Benefits and Uses of Silicon Dioxide (E551)

Merve Ceylan is a dietitian and health writer with four years of experience writing for companies in the nutrition and health industry. Kristie Reed, PharmD, oversees emergency, general medical, ...
Ars Technica

M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon

As part of today’s MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the newest members of the M5 chip family. Normally, the Pro and Max chips take the same basic building blocks from ...
New Scientist

Ants capture carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into armour

An ant that can turn carbon dioxide in the air into dolomite stone in its exoskeleton may hold clues to how humans can sequester greenhouse gases to avert climate disaster. Fungus-farming ants forage ...
Austin American-Statesman

Austin-based Silicon Labs being acquired by Texas instruments in a $7.5B deal

DALLAS — Texas Instruments is spending $7.5 billion to buy Austin-based tech firm Silicon Labs to extend its chips enterprise. The two companies on Wednesday announced a definitive acquisition ...
Reuters

Texas Instruments strikes $7.5 billion deal for Silicon Labs to boost wireless footprint

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Texas Instruments (TXN.O), opens new tab on Wednesday agreed to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories (SLAB.O), opens new tab for about $7.5 billion, aiming to expand its presence ...
EurekAlert!

Densely-neighbored-Ru nanoparticles confined in porous-SiO2 shell for efficient CO2 methanation via plasmon-coupling-enhanced photo-thermal catalysis

Plasmonic metal nanostructures (e.g., Au, Cu, Pt, Ru) have attracted considerable attention in photothermal catalysis due to their unique capabilities in light-field regulation and energy conversion.
The New York Times

Carbon Dioxide Levels Jumped by a Record Amount, U.N. Says

Surging emissions from wildfires may have been behind the increase, which was the largest since modern measurements began more than half a century ago. By Raymond Zhong and Sachi Kitajima Mulkey The ...