Cocaine chemogenetics blunts drug-seeking by synthetic physiology Content summary This Nature study reports engineered, cocaine-activated chemogenetic ion channels that selectively respond to cocaine and can be used to create a…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary An international team (Singapore and Japan) has published a blueprint for arranging knot-like light textures called “hopfions” into ordered, repeatable…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a Series B2 funding round of $863 million with participation…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A Slashdot roundup highlights a newly published 41-page review of a decade of progress in wave (blue) energy,…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers in Japan asked 28 women to apply a specific rose-scented oil to their clothing daily for one…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary In a recorded talk at New Jersey’s InfoAge Science and History Museums, Unix co-creator Brian Kernighan describes his one-off attempt…
Fusion Power Company CFS Raises $863M More From Google, Nvidia, and Many Others Summary Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed a Series B2 round totalling $863 million with participation from…
Scientists Just Created Spacetime Crystals Made of Knotted Light Summary An international team (Singapore and Japan) has published a blueprint for arranging knot-like, three-dimensional topological light textures called hopfions into…
Wave Energy Projects Have Come a Long Way After 10 Years Summary A newly published ten-year review of wave-energy work highlights major advances in triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) and other wave-harvesting…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Eighty-three-year-old Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix, recounted a one-off experience writing a Rust programme during a public talk recorded at…
