Cienciaes.com: A flat magnet one atom thick. We spoke with Jorge Lobo-Checa
2024-04-19 12:22:18
Magnets are fascinating elements that form an integral part of our daily lives, often without us realizing it. Without them, our appliances, telephones, cars and many of the equipment used in hospitals, laboratories or industry could not function. The breadth of uses implies an enormous variety of magnets: some are permanent, because they retain their power of attraction towards metals such as iron continuously; Others, however, only have this property when they are wrapped in a coil through which an electric current circulates.
Given such a diversity of applications, research into new ferromagnetic materials does not stop. An impressive example of innovation in this field is the development of an ultrathin magnet, made up of a surface just one atom thick. This achievement has been possible thanks to the work of a large group of scientists led by Jorge Lobo Checa, researcher at the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon (INMA), our guest today on “Talking with Scientists”.
Jorge Lobo explains that it has taken seven years of research and international collaboration to create a surface of a layer of atoms formed by an anthracene network in a honeycomb structure, on which iron atoms were distributed at distances of one nanometer.
Embracer Group announces its separation into three different companies
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Those who follow the video game industry closely will almost immediately recognize the name of a particular company: Embracer Group. Five years ago this company began to be in the news due to its strategy of constantly buying different studios, but since last year it has been starring in other types of news, since Embracer Group It is the name most associated with the waves of layoffs that have been hitting gaming. Now the company announced a drastic change in its structure, since it will no longer be Embracer Group and will be divided into three different companies.
The news was announced through a statement published by the company where they explain what this separation entails. The three companies will be Asmodee Group, Coffee Stain & Friends y Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends. According to the statement, Asmodee Group will dedicate himself to board games and is currently working on projects based on The Lord of the Rings, Marvel, Game of Thrones, Star Wars and more. Coffee Stain & Friends will focus on independent and free-to-play games, with the control of studios such as Coffee Stain, Ghost Ship y THQ Nordicand properties like Deep Rock Galactic,
Thailand Social AIS Gaming Awards 2024: Honoring Excellence in the Gaming and eSports Industry
AIS joins forces with Wisesight (Thailand) Company Limited to announce the prestigious “Thailand Social AIS Gaming Awards 2024” for the fourth consecutive year, honoring individuals from the gaming and eSports industry who have achieved outstanding performance on social media during the last year
For this year, the Thailand Social AIS Gaming Awards 2024 are divided into 7 groups, with a total of 41 awards, consisting of 14 The Most Popular Game Publisher awards, 8 The Most Popular Game Content Creator awards, The Most Popular eSports Player and eSports Club 9 prizes. , The Most Popular Game Content Creator on Platform 1 Award, The Most Popular Game Device and Gadget 7 Award, The Most Popular AIS eSport Fanpage 1 Award and the Special Award 1.
This year, Patiphan Phosri or Kla CigaretteS, a professional Valorant player from the MiTH team, won the award for the most popular first-person shooter player for another year, as well as HEARTROCKER, a famous YouTuber who won the award for The Most. Popular creator on the AIS eSports fanpage for another era
As for other interesting awards, Kimsensei or Sitchana Jaechan, the professional player of the RoV game from the Bacon Time team,
These are the South American countries that will be able to see the meteor shower on April 21 Ensame de Ciencia
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This month of April 2024 never ceases to amaze us with the number of extraordinary astronomical phenomena it has in store for us.
On this occasion we will tell you about the next meteor shower, which will illuminate the dark night of some South American countries and bathe us with unforgettable memories of how great our universe is. So don’t go away and stay reading all the details of this wonderful cosmic event.
This is the Lyrid meteor shower, which is a unique event to observe the beauty of the stars in this month of April 2024, from the northern hemisphere to the south of the equator, which according to experts, will be able to visualize a environment far from the city, without light pollution, where we can see 10 to 20 meteorites per hour.
The lyrids are one of the oldest rains to be observed, dating back approximately 2,700 years, with the Chinese being the first to record seeing this cosmic phenomenon, which generally occurs every year in the month of April.
According to NASA, the Lyrids are known for their fast,
They reward the most brilliant minds with the so-called Oscars of science
The most brilliant minds in the world were awarded the Breakthrough Awards, called Oscars of scienceat a gala held on Saturday at the Academy Museum of Motion Picture in Los Angeles, California, attended by researchers, movie stars and technology industry leaders.
Among the winners, the French-Canadian scientist Michel Sadelain stands out, who received the Breakthrough Prize for his research on the genetic modification of immune cells to fight cancer.
Their work led to the development of a new form of therapy called CAR-T, which has shown exceptional effectiveness against certain blood cancers.
Sadelain will share the $3 million prize with American immunologist Carl June, who also independently led groundbreaking research in that field.
It is an extraordinary recognition, the French-Canadian told AFP on the red carpet at the Oscars Museum. “It’s an even greater honor, because my scientific colleagues told me for a long time that it would never work.
The greatest pleasure, however, is seeing patients who no longer had a chance and who thank us because they are alive thanks to chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T)he added.
Sadelain is a genetic engineer; He studied medicine in Paris and then immunology in Canada,
Speculation: iPhone 16 Pro May Abandon Physical Buttons
Apple Rumored to Introduce Capacitive Buttons on iPhone 16
Recent rumors suggest that Apple is considering a shift from physical buttons to capacitive buttons on a future iPhone model. A new supply chain report indicates that Apple has initiated an order for a new capacitive button system that will replace the traditional physical buttons on the upcoming iPhone 16.
Last year, there were speculations about the iPhone 15 adopting a new capacitive button design. However, these plans were abandoned due to manufacturing challenges just before the iPhone 15’s release.
According to a supply chain report from the Economic Daily News, Apple has placed an order with Advanced Semiconductor Engineering for capacitive buttons to be integrated into the iPhone 16. This order includes a system-in-a-package module that will replace physical buttons on both sides of the device with capacitive buttons.
Additionally, Apple plans to incorporate two additional Taptic Engine components on each side of the iPhone 16 to provide vibration feedback when users interact with the capacitive buttons.
The report mentions that Apple requires system-level package modules to integrate components like capacitive buttons and Taptic Engine motors, replacing long-standing physical buttons such as volume and power buttons.
it makes movies at 156 trillion frames per second
A new camera has set an astonishing record, reaching a speed of 156 trillion frames per second. The revolutionary tool, developed by a team of researchers led by Professor Jinyang Liang from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Quebec, will have impacts across many sectors.
Not only the field of scientific imaging, but also in medicine and computer science. The technology behind this exceptional camera uses an innovative optical technique to capture 132 frames from a single pulse of an ultra-fast laserallowing you to observe phenomena that occur in femtoseconds — a quadrillionth of a second.
This visualization capability opens up new perspectives for studying extremely fast processes, such as the absorption of photons by semiconductors o to demagnetization of alloy filmswith direct implications in the development of new magnetic computing memories and advanced ultrasonic medical treatments.
The device uses a special light source called “chirped laser”, a technology awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2018, which extends the wavelengths of light so that different colors arrive at different times. This feature allows you to capture details of events at different times within a single laser pulse.
After capture,
Revolutionize Your Cleaning Routine with Ascender: The Smart Vacuum Robot that Climbs Stairs
2024-04-18 02:30:00
Ascender, a smart vacuum robot that can climb stairs
This work belongs to the company Migo Robotics with the development of the Ascender intelligent vacuum robot. It is not only designed to be able to vacuum and mop the floor by itself. But can still climb and clean stairs. It has become the world’s first robot vacuum cleaner that can climb stairs and clean the entire house.
The robot is equipped with various obstacle avoidance systems. From a high-resolution camera, a LiDAR sensor like the one used in self-driving cars, to six TOF sensors to supply data to the artificial intelligence processing system to work with precision.
When you first start up, Ascender starts by rotating and running around the entire area to inspect and create a 3D map, then it starts vacuuming and mopping to clean the designated area. It has a maximum suction power of 9,700 pascals and a mopping force of approximately 17 newtons.
After finishing work, the robot will run straight back to the station to recharge and change the water. It automatically cleans the mop cloth and is ready for reuse. However, both the water tank and dust bag should be serviced every 30 days to keep the Ascender at peak performance.
Longest documented Covid-19 infection alerts to risks of vaccine-resistant mutations
MADRID, (EUROPA PRESS). – After detecting the longest known chronic SARS-CoV-2 infection, lasting 613 days, experts from the University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, warn of the risk of developing new potentially immunoevasive SARS-CoV-2 variants due to infections persistent in immunosuppressed patients.
The research will be presented at the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) World Congress, ESCMID (formerly ECCMID), which will be held next week in Barcelona, Spain, from April 27 to 30. It is the work of doctoral student Magda Vergouwe, from the Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine (CEMM) at the University Medical Center Amsterdam (UMC Amsterdam), and her colleagues.
The authors describe the prolonged viral evolution in a patient infected with SARS-CoV-2 for 613 days, which gave rise to a new highly mutated variant. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the longest-lasting SARS-CoV-2 infection to date, although several cases lasting hundreds of days had previously been recorded.
While healthy patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 can clear the virus over a period of days to weeks, an immunocompromised indiv idual can develop a persistent infection with prolonged viral replication and evolution.
For example, the initial emergence of the omicron variant is believed to have originated in an immunocompromised individual,