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Despite its many advantages, glass has one major Achilles' heel – it’s brittle. Now, engineers at Penn State have developed LionGlass, a new type of the material that’s not only 10 times more damage resistant, but requires significantly less energy to manufacture.The most commonly used form of glass, which you’ll find in everything from windows to drinking glasses, is technically known as soda lime silicate glass. Manufacturing this common material requires furnaces that get up to 1,500 °C (2,732 °F), which of course…

The iQOO 11S is arriving on July 4, and the phone was benchmarked on Geekbench today. The listing usually reveals the CPU used in the tested devices, and here we learned the primary core will be clocked at 3.19 GHz - this is exactly the same frequency as the Cortex-X3 at the helm of the well-known Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. This outcome essentially closed any debates on what kind of Qualcomm SoC the vivo brand will use for the new flagship. According to official information posted on Weibo, the iQOO 11S will excel…

Regular, short snoozes keep our brains young by preserving volume, a quality linked with healthy cognitive functions and a lower risk of dementia and other diseases.Scientists from the US, UK, and Uruguay analyzed data from 378,932 people aged 40 to 69 to see how those who are genetically 'programmed' to nap regularly fared cognitively compared to those who lacked comparable genes.Nappers, they found, had larger brains, equivalent to those who were 2.6 to 6.5 years younger."Our study points to a causal link between…

Earlier this year, AST SpaceMobile, with the help of AT&T, managed to connect an off-the-shelf Samsung Galaxy S22 to a satellite in low-Earth orbit to complete a . The announcement marked a major milestone for satellite-based cellular communication. Now the company says it’s one step closer to bringing the technology to consumers. On Wednesday, AST shared it recently completed multiple tests in Hawaii where its engineers saw download speeds of 10Mbps from the company’s BlueWalker 3 satellite to unmodified phones on…

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Getting into a regular exercise routine comes with a whole host of benefits for our mental and physical health, and researchers just found another one: It may increase your threshold for pain.Researchers from several institutions in Norway studied 10,732 adults, with two batches of data taken 7-8 years apart.The data compared exercise routines with pain tolerance, as measured via a cold pressor test, or CPT, where you dunk your hand into frigid water for as long as possible, up to a maximum tolerance time of 106…

A new study suggests that regular diagnostic testing and self-isolation could be more effective in managing infectious diseases like COVID-19 than large-scale closures such as schools and businesses. The study, which incorporates the concept of “superspreading,” indicates that an optimized strategy of random testing combined with voluntary self-isolation can provide higher net benefits across various conditions, especially when compared to physical distancing mandates.A new study from the University of Wyoming suggests…

Display analyst Ross Young recently said the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max models would have the largest displays of any iPhone to date. With a 6.27-inch screen for the smaller model, the iPhone 16 Pro Max would have a 6.86-inch display. Both could feature a new aspect ratio of 19.5:9. While these displays will be exclusive to next year’s iPhone 16 Pro lineup — meaning the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus will continue offering the exact sizes we are used for a few years now — Ross Young offers exciting new information about…

The EU Parliament agreed last week on the world’s first comprehensive set of rules to regulate the transfer of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, as it looks to crack down on money laundering and illegal transfers in the bloc. From 2024, all crypto transfers, regardless of amount, will be covered by the so-called ‘travel rule’ — information on the source of the asset and its beneficiary will have to travel with the transaction and be stored on both sides of the transfer.  The regulation requires…

Today Matt Bors, founder, editor, and publisher of The Nib, announced that the award-winning comics magazine will cease regular publication both in print and online. In a post on the magazine’s website Bors wrote that the current issue of The Nib, The Future Issue, will be the last from the publication in print, while they will continue to release comics online through the end of August.  In the letter to readers, Bors explained some of what went into the decision to shut down, and reflected on the publication’s…