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Economics & Business Aug 6, 2024

Study explores why some tech products provide years of continued use while others are quickly discarded

Researchers from Radboud University, University of Galway, University of Melbourne, and University of Wisconsin-Madison have published a new Journal of Marketing article that examines common events during the lifecycle of ...

Environment Aug 6, 2024

New York City's fireworks display prompts temporary surge of air pollution

In 2023, roughly 60,000 firework shells exploded above Manhattan's East River as part of Macy's Fourth of July show. The resulting air pollutant levels were many times higher in the hours after the display than those seen ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 6, 2024

Vertically stacked skin-like active-matrix display with ultrahigh aperture ratio

Skin-like displays are critical components of information output in next-generation portable and wearable electronics. Currently, all such displays are fabricated on glass or thick plastic substrates, limiting the inherent ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 6, 2024

Scientists develop physical node reservoir computing based on light-emitting synapses

With the development of artificial intelligence technology, various artificial hardware neural networks such as recursive neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and spiking neural networks have been proposed to meet ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 5, 2024

Optimization for inverse problem solving in computer-generated holography

Computer-generated holography (CGH) provides an approach to digitally modulate a given wavefront. This technology, partly inherited from optical holography and partly advanced by the progress of computing technology, has ...

Archaeology Aug 5, 2024

Ancient Chinese bone needle workshop reveals industrial practices of the 2nd millennium BCE

Recent excavations at the Shimao site in Shaanxi, China, have revealed one of the earliest and, so far, largest bone needle workshops ever discovered. The research published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology by ...

Archaeology Aug 3, 2024

How the last meal of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian crocodile was revealed using modern science

What do you think of when you think about ancient Egyptian mummies? Perhaps your mind takes you back to a school trip to the museum, when you came face to face with a mummified person inside a glass case. Or maybe you think ...

Plants & Animals Aug 2, 2024

Flamingos don't preen more than other waterbirds, study shows

Despite their famously fancy feathers, flamingos don't spend more time preening than other waterbirds, new research shows. Scientists watched five of the world's six flamingo species to see how they spend their time.

Archaeology Aug 2, 2024

'Screaming Woman' mummy may have died in agony 3,500 years ago

In 1935, the Metropolitan Museum of New York led an archaeological expedition to Egypt. In Deir Elbahari near Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes, they excavated the tomb of Senmut, the architect and overseer of royal works—and ...

Nanomaterials Aug 1, 2024

Metallic nanosheets curl into nanovesicles

Inspired by the cell membrane structure, researchers, led by Dr. Xiaoqing Huang (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University) and Dr. Qi Shao ...

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