What if you could travel from New York to Los Angeles in just under seven hours without boarding a plane? It could be possible on a maglev train. Maglev—short for magnetic levitation—trains can trace their roots to technology pioneered at Brookhaven National Laboratory. James Powell and Gordon...
Sharply rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the air have escalated a climate crisis that affects the living conditions of humankind, leading to the most uncertain natural environment on our planet since the agricultural revolution1,2. Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a widely ...
On Tuesday, Apple acknowledged the security breakdown and blamed it on intruders who were able to figure out usernames and passwords and bypass other safeguards. The company said it found no evidence of a widespread problem in iCloud or its Find my iPhone services. But the theft of the photo...
In a traditionalpimnemonic, such as the one above, the number of characters in each word is used to represent a digit ofpi, with the ocassional 10-, 11-, 12, or 14-digit word denoting two digits of pi. Punctuation is ignored. A famous example is the following: God! I need a drin...
to reach the sample surface alignment in the horizontal plane containing the X-ray beam. Film opacity prevented laser-assisted sample alignment, which was carried out with optical devices (camera). Bidimensional diffraction patterns were recorded with a 2M Pilatus silicon pixel X-ray detector (DECTRI...