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Bacteria producing nanowires made up of cytochrome OmcS. Credit: Ella Maru StudioThere is a global web of tiny bacteria-generated nanowires in the soil and oceans that “breathe” by exhaling excess electrons, composing an intrinsic electrical grid for the natural world.In a new research study, <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Yale University</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1701, Yale University is a…

Instacart Inc. orders and revenue grew in the second quarter as consumers stuck to online grocery delivery despite rising prices and store reopenings, a promising sign for investors as the company prepares for a public offering as soon as later this year.Instacart is one of the few companies in Silicon Valley moving toward a public listing in what might be one of the slowest years for IPOs in decades. A drop in the value of formerly highly valued technology stocks ranging from…

HIV-infected people showed significant age acceleration in four epigenetic “clock” measurements, ranging from 1.9 to 4.8 years, an acceleration that was not seen in non-infected people. (Image: An immune cell infected with HIV.) Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)DNA level changes can hasten aging by roughly five years, according to a UCLA-led study.According to experts at the University of California, Los Angeles, HIV has a “early and substantial” influence on aging in infected patients,…

On a busy downtown street three delivery bikes suddenly dart over the pedestrian crossing ahead of the car. On the car's dashboard they look like small 3D blue blocks from a 1990s video game. The steering wheel turns itself a notch and the vehicle slows to a gentle halt, while the safety driver looks on from the passenger seat. The vehicle is one of a hundred sensor-laden robotaxis belonging to start up DeepRoute.ai cruising the dense central Futian business district in China's southern tech hub Shenzhen, giving 50,000…

Manatee Nebula or W50, as captured by the X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton, also known as the High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy Mission and the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission. Credit: S. Safi-Harb et al (2022)The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton spacecraft has X-rayed this beautiful cosmic creature, known as the Manatee Nebula, pinpointing the location of unusual particle acceleration in its ‘head’.The Manatee Nebula, also known as W50, is thought to be a large supernova remnant created when a giant star exploded around…

Researchers have created a technique that boosts the speeds of programs that run in the Unix shell, a ubiquitous programming environment created 50 years ago, by parallelizing the programs. Credit: Christine Daniloff, MITComputer scientists developed a new system that can make computer programs run faster, while guaranteeing <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>accuracy</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>How close the…

Bitcoin plunged to $18,248, and ether fell to $944 as of mid-afternoon on Saturday, as the sell-off in the crypto market accelerates. The world's two most popular cryptocurrencies are down more than 35% in the past week, as both breach symbolic price barriers.Carnage in the crypto market is partly to do with pressure from macroeconomic forces, including spiraling inflation and a succession of Fed rate hikes. We have also seen these blue chip cryptos track equities lower. It doesn't help that crypto firms are laying off…

New research shows stress accelerates the aging of the immune system and could help explain disparities in age-related health.Traumatic life events and everyday stress prematurely weaken body’s mix of immune cells.It is widely recognized that as people start getting up in the years, their immune system weakens. A stark example is the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, where the elderly face a much higher mortality rate than the young.This process of gradual deterioration of the immune system brought on by natural age advancement…

NEW DELHI: India’s public cloud services market, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, and software-as-a-service (SaaS), revenue totalled $4.6 billion for July-December 2021, said research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The overall Indian public cloud services market is expected to reach $13.5 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 24% during 2021-26, it said. India continues to be among the fastest-growing market for public…

HONG KONG—China’s consumer inflation edged up in April and factory-gate price pressures remained elevated as Covid-19 lockdowns jammed up logistics networks and the Ukraine war pushed up global energy prices.China’s consumer-price index in April was up 2.1% from a year earlier, official data showed Wednesday, the fastest pace in five months—accelerating from March’s 1.5% and topping the 2% median forecast of economists polled by the Journal. HONG KONG—China’s consumer inflation edged up in April and factory-gate price…