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1 week ago | 
techxplore.com | Muhammad Wakil Shahzad |Owen Ferguson |Andrew Zinin
Data centers are the invisible engines of our digital world. Every Google search, Netflix stream, cloud-stored photo or ChatGPT response passes through banks of high-powered computers housed in giant facilities scattered across the globe. These data centers consume a staggering amount of electricity and increasingly, a surprising amount of water. But unlike the water you use at home, much of the water used in data centers never returns to the water reuse cycle.
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1 week ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Holly Ingram |Owen Ferguson |Andrew Zinin
Did you know that around one in two women in the UK will experience symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunction at some point in their lives? And for women who engage in high-intensity exercise, that figure rises to 63%. The female pelvic floor is a remarkable yet often overlooked structure: a complex "hammock" of muscles and ligaments that stretches from the front of the pelvis to the tailbone.
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1 week ago | 
phys.org | Justin Stebbing |Owen Ferguson |Andrew Zinin
When you think of dinosaurs, you might imagine towering predators or gentle giants roaming prehistoric landscapes. But what if these ancient creatures could teach us about one of humanity's most persistent challenges: cancer?
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1 week ago | 
phys.org | Matthew Robertson |Megan Bailey |Tyler Eddy |Owen Ferguson
During the federal election campaign, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that if elected, he would look into restructuring Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO).
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1 week ago | 
phys.org | Aaron Wagner |Owen Ferguson |Andrew Zinin
Since World War II, professional baseball, football, basketball and hockey teams in the United States have commonly used public money to help build new venues or to facilitate teams moving to a new city. Onlookers sometimes speculate about why tax dollars are being used to build a stadium for a team that is privately owned, often by billionaires. Questions about the appropriateness of public funding have swirled in public discourse for decades.
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1 week ago | 
phys.org | Owen Ferguson |Andrew Zinin
Today, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the sun's outer atmosphere—the solar corona. The mission's two satellites, able to fly as a single spacecraft thanks to a suite of onboard positioning technologies, have succeeded in creating their first 'artificial total solar eclipse' in orbit.
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1 week ago | 
phys.org | Owen Ferguson |Andrew Zinin
This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Hubble captured this image in 2023. IC 758 appears peaceful, with its soft blue spiral arms curving gently around its hazy barred center.
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1 month ago | 
phys.org | Emily Thrift |Owen Ferguson |Andrew Zinin
For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic bottles and discarded fishing nets. My own research looks at how the same story is playing out on land. Plastics are increasingly found in small mammals, insects and the soil.
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1 month ago | 
medicalxpress.com | Faith Pring |Owen Ferguson |Andrew Zinin
Cultural differences can have a big impact on mental health recovery provisions, a new study from the University of Nottingham has shown. The study, led by Dr. Yasu Kotera at the University of Nottingham, has shown that the effectiveness of Recovery Colleges (RCs)—educational centers supporting people with mental health challenges—is significantly shaped by national cultural values.
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1 month ago | 
phys.org | Owen Ferguson |Andrew Zinin
As fast as modern electronics have become, they could be much faster if their operations were based on light, rather than electricity. Fiber optic cables already transport information at the speed of light; to do computations on that information without translating it back to electric signals will require a host of new optical components.
