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Consumer IoT brand Imou is offering up to 30% off a selection of home security cameras in Amazon’s Spring Sale. One of the most versatile security cameras on offer is the Cell Go. You can use it indoors, outdoors and, thanks to its vlogging feature, on the move, to record trips and days out. It’s compact and easy to hold, and it can connect to your mobile phone to transmit footage when you don’t have a Wi-Fi signal. The Cell Go is a practical, money-saving option, thanks to its inbuilt 4MB eMMC (embedded…

Investing in an outdoor security camera is one of the best ways to keep your home safe – whether you’re in or away. And now is a great time to go for it, with Imou’s security cameras discounted by up to 30% in the Amazon Spring Sale. Imou is a consumer IoT brand that has been making and refining smart security products since 2015. If you have an older security camera, you may have had problems with complicated wiring, or unnecessary alerts when there’s a fox in the garden or waving branches in the frame, or a…

Brazilian researchers have developed a method to enhance the efficiency and durability of perovskite solar cells by incorporating MXenes into the cells’ structure. This advancement, documented in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C, promises significant improvements in solar cell technology, with potential impacts on industrial production and sustainability efforts.A study by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) has yielded results that could significantly benefit the future of the solar power sector.In an…

Honda invited us out to its US R&D Center in Torrance, California to drive the new fuel cell plug-in hybrid version of the CR-V, which gets released later this year. Is this first-ever hybrid between a battery EV and fuel cell EV the future of electric cars? Honda’s CR-V e:FCEV (say that ten times fast) is the first in a new generation of Honda’s fuel cell technology, much improved over the hydrogen fuel cells in its earlier fuel cell vehicles, the FCX and Clarity (the Clarity’s fuel cells are now…

Hair follicle stem cells (green) mobilize and expand (white) to help repair the skin’s barrier by differentiating into epidermal lineages (red). Credit: Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller UniversityWhen a child falls off her bike and scrapes her knee, skin stem cells rush to the rescue, growing new epidermis to cover the wound. However, only a portion of these stem cells, which eventually repair the damage, are typically assigned the task of replenishing the…

NUS researchers successfully integrated a new anion, cyanate, into a perovskite structure, which was a key breakthrough in fabricating new triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cells. Credit: National University of SingaporeResearchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cell that can achieve a certified world-record power conversion efficiency of 27.1 percent across a solar energy absorption area of 1 sq cm. This achievement marks the…

Scientists say they are closer than ever to reviving the woolly mammoth (via The Washington Post). Colossal Biosciences has been working on its project to revive the mammoth. The company shared its hopes to resurrect the mammoth within four years back at the start of 2023, and now it has created important stem cells that are vital for the project to work as planned.Being closer than ever to reviving a long-extinct species does not mean there aren’t still tons of steps to complete. In fact, the creation of these…

Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first de-extinction company,” has created stem cells it thinks will hasten the company’s marquee goal of resurrecting the woolly mammoth. The team’s research describing the accomplishment will be hosted on the preprint server bioRxiv.What Drew John Boyega Back Into Sci-Fi? | io9 InterviewThe cells are induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), a type of cell that can be reprogrammed to develop into any other type of cell. The cells are especially useful in bioengineering,…

Many Pregnancy Losses Are Caused by Errors in Cell DivisionOdd cell divisions could help explain why even young, healthy couples might struggle to get pregnantBy Gina Jiménez Credit: ugurhan/Getty ImagesHuman reproduction is notoriously inefficient. Whereas the fertilized eggs of other animals, such as mice, usually progress to more complex embryo stages, fertilized human eggs often falter early on. For a recent study in Genome Medicine, scientists analyzed almost 1,000 embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures…

Honda’s popular CR-V compact crossover is now getting a hydrogen-powered version that will begin deliveries this year in California – pretty much the only state in the US where you can find hydrogen refueling stations. Californians can drive the upcoming 2025 model via lease-only, and Honda is dubbing the new setup the less-than-catchy CR-V e:FCEV. It sounds like a tax form. But what makes this car different from a PHEV is that it comes equipped with a 17.7-kilowatt-hour battery that can be powered by…