Scuffles broke out Saturday in Paris between police and small groups of protesters joining a march as part of nationwide demonstrations against rising living costs and in support of high school students’ grievances. Police used tear gas to push back people wearing hoods and masks and throwing fireworks and other objects at officers in the […]
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Living muscle cells, the same kind that pull on bone inside a body, now pull a paper-thin robot through water. Researchers at MIT built a gum-stick-sized aquabot whose two fins beat when light hits them, and they steered it through a simple maze in a petri dish by flashing that light from outside the dish. […]
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Mitsubishi’s CS4307 40″ CRT Still Anchors Living Rooms After Decades…and Game Conventions
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Mitsubishi spent the late 1980s and early 1990s stretching the limits of glass and electron guns until a 40-inch direct-view tube became something you could actually buy. The CS4307 belongs to that short, expensive run of sets that sat at the top of the company’s American lineup in the mid-1990s. Few other makers even tried […]
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Living cells refuse to pose. Mitochondria pinch apart and fuse back together in seconds. Microtubules slide, overlap, and rearrange. Ordinary light microscopes smear those events once details fall below roughly 200 nanometers, the natural limit set by how light waves spread. Older super-resolution methods beat that blur by stacking hundreds or thousands of frames and […]
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Opera great Giuseppe Verdi, one of history’s most successful composers, used his fortune to create a retirement home for professional musicians “not favored by fortune.” Residents of Casa Verdi in Milan not only share their lifetimes of artistry, they also provide master classes to young musicians. Chris Livesay reports. Milan’s Casa Verdi, a rest home […]
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A pair of soft white tubes no thicker than a couple of strands of spaghetti rest in a researcher’s hands. They look almost fragile, yet these fibers can pull with the strength of real muscle, stay completely silent while they work, and run for hours on nothing more than a small battery pack. Researchers at […]