“By integrating frequency interval matching with center-of-gravity optimization, we systematically aligned the harvester’s resonant frequency with the bee’s thorax vibration, enabling efficient energy conversion without compromising flight stability,” Jieliang Zhao, PhD, a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology and corresponding author of the study revealed.
The resulting piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) integrates flexible, low-mass PVDF films, a double-crystal design to boost voltage output, and precise tuning to the bees’ natural vibration frequency of 210–220 Hz. According to co-author Jianing Wu from Sun Yat-sen University, the design removes the need for bulky batteries, significantly extending the functional lifespan of insect cyborgs.
According to Zhao, the bees maintained normal flight behavior even with the PEH attached, quickly recovering from flips within two seconds and hovering with ease, thus demonstrating minimal biomechanical disruption. However, although the harvester shows strong performance in energy density and biocompatibility, challenges in energy storage and scalability still need to be addressed.
“Future work will focus on integrating energy management circuits and expanding this methodology to other flying insects, such as dragonflies and butterflies, to establish standardized energy solutions for biohybrid systems,” the researchers concluded.
It should be noted that nuclear weapon testing leads to a lot of problems for the environment. The United Nations opened the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996. It banned all nuclear explosions, whether for military or peaceful purposes.
To monitor compliance, its verification regime is designed to detect any nuclear explosion conducted anywhere – underground, under water or in the atmosphere.
Study proposes earthquake tremors can hide nuclear test explosions
The new study by Los Alamos scientists states that the success rate of advanced detectors to identify a 1.7-ton nuclear weapon exploded underground falls to just 37 percent in the case of an earthquake happening within 155 miles (250 km) distance within 100 seconds.
This is a significant dip compared to the 97 percent identification ac
This is a significant dip compared to the 97 percent identification accuracy for the same detector when there are no earthquake tremors in the vicinity.
The study sheds light on the topic of explosion masking and how difficult it is to track it because there is very little data available.
Moreover, the scientists also found that overlapping waveforms do not just hide explosions, but they can also hide other smaller earthquakes and other seismic events.
The masking effect dropped detection to just 16 percent from 92 percent in these situations.
“This may mean that we probably underestimate a lot of the low magnitude seismicity that is sourced during a swarm or an aftershock sequence,” Carmichael said as per a report by Phys.
Our study compares correlator performance when we deliberately inject templates into earthquake signals relative to baseline operation that processes target waveforms injected into data that is absent of known seismicity. We find that a correlator that uses an explosion‐sourced template and that can reliably detect a 1.7 ton shallowly buried explosion in background noise (a 0.97 detection rate) is unlikely to detect the same event in noisy earthquake interference (a 0.37 detection rate). This masking remains significant when explosion and earthquake origin times separate by as much as 100 s. We also find that the performance of correlators that use a template sourced by an earthquake is even more degraded and can fall from a 0.92 to a 0.16 detection rate during earthquake swarms. We conclude that earthquake seismicity can mask explosion signals with significant probability and that swarms can also mask significant repeating earthquake seismicity.
Local officials and residents at odds
The controversy has divided Memphis.
Mayor Paul Young has been a long-time supporter of Musk’s project. Speaking at a public forum after the news broke, Young said xAI wasn’t running all of the gas turbines. “There are 35, but there are only 15 that are on,” Young told WREG News. “The other ones are stored on the site.”
He added that xAI has a pending application with the Shelby County Health Department to operate 15 of the turbines officially. But that hasn’t satisfied concerned residents.
Meanwhile, the health department is preparing for its first public hearing on the issue, scheduled for Friday. Local officials will listen to residents, environmental lawyers, and company representatives at that hearing.
For the Artemis III mission, astronauts will travel to lunar orbit in the Orion spacecraft and then dock with the lander system to descend to the Moon’s surface.
As a lander’s engines fire to slow down before landing, the powerful rocket exhaust plumes will interact with the hazardous lunar soil called regolith.
This process might create craters and unstable ground directly beneath it, also launching lunar soil particles at high speeds in multiple directions.
The lunar regolith could pose potential risks to the crew, lander, payloads, and future infrastructure placed on the lunar surface.
To unravel the complexities of this exhaust’s interaction with the lunar surface, the NASA team is conducting tests using this hybrid rocket motor.
“We show that by changing their diet, the stem cells can rejuvenate and turn into ‘super stem cells’. It forces them to metabolize their energy in a different way than they normally would, and that process essentially reprograms the stem cells,” says first author Robert Bone.
“What is really striking is that they’re not just better at differentiating, but they stay fit and keep healthy much better over time compared to stem cells in standard culture conditions. And it is done with a relatively simple method,” adds corresponding author Joshua Brickman.
Following criticism that they had not effectively kept phone use in check the previous day, Vatican officials told visitors on Thursday to put their phones away and not take any photos as they went by the coffin.
According to a 1996 Vatican directive, photographing or filming the Pope on "his sickbed or after death" is forbidden except in cases where the interim administrator, known as the camerlengo, approves for documentary purposes.
In the almost 30 years since the directive was issued, technological advances have made smartphones — and their onboard cameras — ubiquitous and have sometimes led to awkward situations when public figures die, and the solemnity of ceremony and ritual competes with the personal desire to document the moment.
Former President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, will also be attending the funeral. Russian Premier Vladmir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jiping are not expected to attend, according to Bloomberg.
Father James Martin, editor at large for American Magazine, a Jesuit publication, told Bloomberg that he believes the Cardinals who will select a next Pope will consider global politics as part of their choice.
"It's natural for the college of cardinals to consider the signs of the times, that is what is going on in the world," Martin said to Bloomberg. "So broadly speaking they will be considering the geopolitical situation."
Trump has not weighed in on who should be the next Pope, only offering praise to Pope Francis.
Mangione's arraignment for the killing last December attracted several dozen people to the federal courthouse in Manhattan, including former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served about seven years in prison for stealing classified diplomatic cables.
Mangione, who has been held in a federal jail in Brooklyn since his arrest, arrived to court in a mustard-colored jail suit. He chatted with one of his lawyers, death penalty counsel Avi Moskowitz, as they wanted for the arraignment to begin.
Late Thursday night, federal prosecutors filed a required notice of their intent to seek the death penalty.
That came weeks after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she would be directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for what she called "an act of political violence" and a "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America."
It was the first time the Justice Department said it was pursuing capital punishment since President Donald Trump returned to office Jan. 20 with a vow to resume federal executions after they were halted under the previous administration.
Mangione's lawyers have argued that Bondi's announcement was a "political stunt" that corrupted the grand jury process and deprived him of his constitutional right to due process. They had sought to block prosecutors from seeking the death penalty.
“By integrating frequency interval matching with center-of-gravity optimization, we systematically aligned the harvester’s resonant frequency with the bee’s thorax vibration, enabling efficient energy conversion without compromising flight stability,” Jieliang Zhao, PhD, a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology and corresponding author of the study revealed.
The resulting piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) integrates flexible, low-mass PVDF films, a double-crystal design to boost voltage output, and precise tuning to the bees’ natural vibration frequency of 210–220 Hz. According to co-author Jianing Wu from Sun Yat-sen University, the design removes the need for bulky batteries, significantly extending the functional lifespan of insect cyborgs.
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According to Zhao, the bees maintained normal flight behavior even with the PEH attached, quickly recovering from flips within two seconds and hovering with ease, thus demonstrating minimal biomechanical disruption. However, although the harvester shows strong performance in energy density and biocompatibility, challenges in energy storage and scalability still need to be addressed.
“Future work will focus on integrating energy management circuits and expanding this methodology to other flying insects, such as dragonflies and butterflies, to establish standardized energy solutions for biohybrid systems,” the researchers concluded.
It should be noted that nuclear weapon testing leads to a lot of problems for the environment. The United Nations opened the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996. It banned all nuclear explosions, whether for military or peaceful purposes.
To monitor compliance, its verification regime is designed to detect any nuclear explosion conducted anywhere – underground, under water or in the atmosphere.
Study proposes earthquake tremors can hide nuclear test explosions
The new study by Los Alamos scientists states that the success rate of advanced detectors to identify a 1.7-ton nuclear weapon exploded underground falls to just 37 percent in the case of an earthquake happening within 155 miles (250 km) distance within 100 seconds.
This is a significant dip compared to the 97 percent identification ac
This is a significant dip compared to the 97 percent identification accuracy for the same detector when there are no earthquake tremors in the vicinity.
The study sheds light on the topic of explosion masking and how difficult it is to track it because there is very little data available.
Moreover, the scientists also found that overlapping waveforms do not just hide explosions, but they can also hide other smaller earthquakes and other seismic events.
The masking effect dropped detection to just 16 percent from 92 percent in these situations.
“This may mean that we probably underestimate a lot of the low magnitude seismicity that is sourced during a swarm or an aftershock sequence,” Carmichael said as per a report by Phys.
Our study compares correlator performance when we deliberately inject templates into earthquake signals relative to baseline operation that processes target waveforms injected into data that is absent of known seismicity. We find that a correlator that uses an explosion‐sourced template and that can reliably detect a 1.7 ton shallowly buried explosion in background noise (a 0.97 detection rate) is unlikely to detect the same event in noisy earthquake interference (a 0.37 detection rate). This masking remains significant when explosion and earthquake origin times separate by as much as 100 s. We also find that the performance of correlators that use a template sourced by an earthquake is even more degraded and can fall from a 0.92 to a 0.16 detection rate during earthquake swarms. We conclude that earthquake seismicity can mask explosion signals with significant probability and that swarms can also mask significant repeating earthquake seismicity.
Local officials and residents at odds
The controversy has divided Memphis.
Mayor Paul Young has been a long-time supporter of Musk’s project. Speaking at a public forum after the news broke, Young said xAI wasn’t running all of the gas turbines. “There are 35, but there are only 15 that are on,” Young told WREG News. “The other ones are stored on the site.”
He added that xAI has a pending application with the Shelby County Health Department to operate 15 of the turbines officially. But that hasn’t satisfied concerned residents.
Meanwhile, the health department is preparing for its first public hearing on the issue, scheduled for Friday. Local officials will listen to residents, environmental lawyers, and company representatives at that hearing.
For the Artemis III mission, astronauts will travel to lunar orbit in the Orion spacecraft and then dock with the lander system to descend to the Moon’s surface.
As a lander’s engines fire to slow down before landing, the powerful rocket exhaust plumes will interact with the hazardous lunar soil called regolith.
This process might create craters and unstable ground directly beneath it, also launching lunar soil particles at high speeds in multiple directions.
The lunar regolith could pose potential risks to the crew, lander, payloads, and future infrastructure placed on the lunar surface.
To unravel the complexities of this exhaust’s interaction with the lunar surface, the NASA team is conducting tests using this hybrid rocket motor.
“We show that by changing their diet, the stem cells can rejuvenate and turn into ‘super stem cells’. It forces them to metabolize their energy in a different way than they normally would, and that process essentially reprograms the stem cells,” says first author Robert Bone.
“What is really striking is that they’re not just better at differentiating, but they stay fit and keep healthy much better over time compared to stem cells in standard culture conditions. And it is done with a relatively simple method,” adds corresponding author Joshua Brickman.
Following criticism that they had not effectively kept phone use in check the previous day, Vatican officials told visitors on Thursday to put their phones away and not take any photos as they went by the coffin.
According to a 1996 Vatican directive, photographing or filming the Pope on "his sickbed or after death" is forbidden except in cases where the interim administrator, known as the camerlengo, approves for documentary purposes.
In the almost 30 years since the directive was issued, technological advances have made smartphones — and their onboard cameras — ubiquitous and have sometimes led to awkward situations when public figures die, and the solemnity of ceremony and ritual competes with the personal desire to document the moment.
Former President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, will also be attending the funeral. Russian Premier Vladmir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jiping are not expected to attend, according to Bloomberg.
Father James Martin, editor at large for American Magazine, a Jesuit publication, told Bloomberg that he believes the Cardinals who will select a next Pope will consider global politics as part of their choice.
"It's natural for the college of cardinals to consider the signs of the times, that is what is going on in the world," Martin said to Bloomberg. "So broadly speaking they will be considering the geopolitical situation."
Trump has not weighed in on who should be the next Pope, only offering praise to Pope Francis.
Mangione's arraignment for the killing last December attracted several dozen people to the federal courthouse in Manhattan, including former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served about seven years in prison for stealing classified diplomatic cables.
Mangione, who has been held in a federal jail in Brooklyn since his arrest, arrived to court in a mustard-colored jail suit. He chatted with one of his lawyers, death penalty counsel Avi Moskowitz, as they wanted for the arraignment to begin.
Late Thursday night, federal prosecutors filed a required notice of their intent to seek the death penalty.
That came weeks after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she would be directing federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for what she called "an act of political violence" and a "premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America."
It was the first time the Justice Department said it was pursuing capital punishment since President Donald Trump returned to office Jan. 20 with a vow to resume federal executions after they were halted under the previous administration.
Mangione's lawyers have argued that Bondi's announcement was a "political stunt" that corrupted the grand jury process and deprived him of his constitutional right to due process. They had sought to block prosecutors from seeking the death penalty.