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A Hero Photon Electric scooter in Odisha reportedly caught fire while it was being charged and the incident has left the scooter partially damaged. According to media reports, the incident was first reported on Wednesday, and the cause is thought to be a short circuit at the power socket from where the electric scooter was being charged overnight. “When contacted, the customer explained that he heard abnormal cracking sounds and discovered that fumes were coming from the electric switchboard of the home, adjacent to the…

As we age, the retention power of our memory often degrades. This makes performing everyday tasks difficult. It gets very difficult to remember things. For instance, elderly people could forget by afternoon what they ate for breakfast. They may even find it difficult to recall a conversation they had with someone. One key brain region linked to this type of memory is the anterior thalamus, which is primarily involved in the recollection of our surroundings and how to navigate them. The thalamus is an egg-shaped structure…

MIT researchers have found that neurons of the anteroventral thalamus (labeled green) play a critical role in spatial working memory. Neurons of the anterodorsal thalamus are labeled in red. Credit: Dheeraj Roy and Ying ZhangThis brain circuit, which weakens with age, could offer a target to help prevent age-related decline in spatial memory.As people age, their working memory often degrades, making it more difficult to perform everyday tasks. One key brain region linked to this type of memory is the anterior thalamus,…

A team from the University of Illinois and UC Berkeley has demonstrated a new cooling method that sucks heat out of electronics so efficiently that it allows designers to run 7.4 times more power through a given volume than conventional heat sinks.Heat is very much the enemy for electronics designers, and it's one of the key limiting factors preventing electronics from getting smaller. If heat can't be ejected from circuits, they break down functionally, and sometimes physically. The familiar stacked-wafer shape of heat…

As we gradually move towards the Internet of Things (IoT), the volume of data is set to skyrocket. With it, the demand for lightweight, high-performance, mobile data processing devices will also increase. To develop such devices, we would first need organic integrated circuits with organic transistors. However, the integration density of these circuits has been low because of incompatibility with existing microfabrication technologies. But researchers may have had a breakthrough. They have developed an organic…

A new organic anti-ambipolar transistor has been developed that is capable of performing any one of the five logic gate operations by adjusting the input voltages to its dual gates. It could be used to develop electrically reconfigurable logic circuits, which may be key to the development of high-performance mobile devices.Construction of multiple logic circuits using only a single transistor.The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Tokyo University of Science have succeeded in developing an organic…

Electric two-wheeler manufacturer Okinawa Autotech on Monday said that the fire at its dealership in Tamil Nadu was due to an electric short-circuit in the building.Okinawa, which recalled 3,215 units of its ‘Praise Pro’ scooters on April 16, just before the dealership was engulfed in flames in Tamil Nadu, said in a statement shared with IANS that no EV scooter or battery fire started the incident.“The fire was due to an electric short-circuit in the panel wiring in the building. The dealership has also confirmed the…