Kathmandu — A national biotechnology hackathon is set to take place in Nepal later this month, aiming to generate innovative solutions to the country’s food system challenges. The three-day event, Genome Biothon 2026, will run…
As computing moves to cloud, UW-Madison spinoff offers…
[caption id="attachment_12278" align="alignnone" width="775"] Graduate student Vijay Thiruvengadam, left, and Karu Sankaralingam, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a prototype board used to explore a new, streamlined approach specifically…
Microrobots inspired by nature
A revolutionary design mimics the rowing action of the cilia on single-celled Paramecium, demonstrating much faster movement than conventional microrobots. [caption id="attachment_12274" align="alignnone" width="2208"] Microrobots offer a wide range of potential treatments in healthcare, from…
Sources in XMM-Newton’s second slew catalogue
[caption id="attachment_12270" align="alignnone" width="625"] Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/ R. Saxton / A.M. Read[/caption] This colourful, seemingly abstract artwork is actually a map of our Galaxy, depicting all the celestial objects that were detected in the XMM-Newton slew…
At Last: Beautiful, consistent carbon belts
Chemists have tried to synthesize carbon nanobelts for more than 60 years, but none have succeeded until now. A team at Nagoya University reported the first organic synthesis of a carbon nanobelt in Science. Carbon…