These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet Summary A new hollow-fibre design replaces the usual solid glass core with a system of tiny glass “straws” — five…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to specific regions on the Sun and…
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer
Air taxis will soon be in our skies — if batteries can be made safer Summary Small electric aircraft and eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) craft are moving from…
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet
These ‘glass straw’ optical fibres could speed up the Internet Summary A new hollow‑core optical fibre design replaces the usual solid glass strand with a system of nested glass ‘straws’.…
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fibre Summary A research team tied to the University of Southampton and backed by Microsoft has reported a major advance in hollow-core…
Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake
Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake Summary A recent analysis summarises published meta-analyses on protein supplementation and finds no high-quality evidence that consuming more than about 1.6 grams of protein per…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to distinct origins on the Sun, allowing…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced the origin of superfast electrons emitted by the Sun and…
Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber
Summary A Microsoft-backed team (linked to the University of Southampton and spinoff Lumenisity) published new research in Nature Photonics describing a refined double-nested antiresonant nodeless hollow-core fibre (DNANF) design. The…
Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins
Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins Summary Alibaba Cloud has published papers (to be presented at SIGCOMM) detailing three in-house networking systems that…