The 2023 MLB season is now more than a month old and we’re settling into the daily grind of regular season baseball. All the pomp and circumstance of Opening Day and home openers is over. Now it’s just baseball, day by day. Playing every day is the best and worst thing about this sport. A … Read more
Allogeneic HIP islets achieve prolonged survival. a, Immunofluorescence images of dissociated and aggregated wtthere and HIPthere Islets from rhesus monkeys (representative images). b, In vitro insulin secretion of wtthere and HIPthere Islets (mean ± sd, triplicates). c, composition of wtthere and HIPthere Islets of α, β, δ and other cells (mean, triplicates). d, Flow cytometry … Read more
Elon Musk has slammed Meta’s WhatsApp messaging service over privacy concerns – even as Twitter announced it would be rolling out its own encrypted messaging feature. Musk lashed out at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday in response to a screenshot Tweeted by Twitter engineer Fode Dabiri, who claimed WhatsApp had been using Dabiri’s microphone … Read more
Scientists have found that more finely ground coffee beans lead to weaker espresso due to uneven extraction. They used a simple mathematical model to split the coffee into two regions and examined how the uneven flow affected the brewing process. This uneven flow persisted in different parts of the coffee bed, affecting the taste of … Read more
Aurich Lawson Ars Technica is pleased to announce the return of Ars Frontiers, our one-day event exploring tech’s most pressing and fascinating issues. This year’s event will be held on May 22nd and everyone is invited! This year’s attendance is virtual, so we’ll be streaming all six sessions over three and a half hours. Readers … Read more
Ultraluminous X-ray sources are objects that shine 10 million times as brightly as the Sun. Scientists say they are too bright to exist because they break the Eddington limit. A new study confirms the brightness of ULX – the mystery of how it exists remains unsolved. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access … Read more
After selling 23 million Switches two years ago and 18 million last year, Nintendo expects demand for the aging console to decline. It is forecasting sales of 15 million for next year and is not confident about that figure, according to its latest earnings report. “Sustaining the Switch’s sales momentum will be difficult in its … Read more
Stars can be seen with the naked eye, but planets orbiting other stars are incredibly difficult to see, even with the most powerful telescopes ever made. It wasn’t until 1992 that astronomers imaged an exoplanet, meaning a planet in another solar system; Before that, some astronomers thought that our solar system might be unique and … Read more
Qizong Liang, a PhD candidate at Zila and from the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, demonstrated how the laser-based breathalyzer works in Yeh’s lab at Zila. Finally, the system can be miniaturized for “health monitoring on the go.” Credit: Patrick Campbell/CU Boulder. Credit: CU Boulder With each breath, humans exhale more … Read more
A meteorite the size of an iconic New Jersey pork roll sandwich slammed into a home in Hopewell Township, New Jersey on Monday, smashing through the roof and ceiling before landing on a hardwood floor, according to local officials. According to local CBS affiliate KYW, the meteor managed to impact Earth and hit a house … Read more