FUNDAY

3/27
1. TECH

Turning seawater into stored energy
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-seawater-energy.html

Mini-fuel cell delivers maximum performance
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-mini-fuel-cell-maximum.html

Recyclable 'veggie' battery could power future devices more efficiently
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-recyclable-veggie-battery-power-future.html

First closeups of how a lithium-metal electrode ages
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-closeups-lithium-metal-electrode-ages.html

Big breakthrough for 'massless' energy storage
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-big-breakthrough-massless-energy-storage.html

Control system helps several drones team up to deliver heavy packages
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-drones-team-heavy-packages.html

Knitting roads: Digitalized road construction uses no concrete
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-roads-digitalized-road-concrete.html

fast charging for lithium-ion batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-inroads-fast-lithium-ion-batteries.html

A general approach to high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-approach-high-efficiency-perovskite-solar-cells.html

new microscopy technique that can acquire 3-D super-resolution images of subcellular structures from about 100 microns deep inside biological tissue
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-capture-3d-super-resolution-images-mice.html

Automated alignment of optical fibers reduces errors and cost in photonic chip production
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-automated-alignment-optical-fibers-errors.html

Turning wood into plastic
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-wood-plastic.html

MM-related Physics etc
https://milesmathis.forumotion.com/t632-latest-mm-related-physics-articles#6498


2. ELECTRONICS, INTERNET ETC

How having more tech at home during COVID-19 creates longer, more stressful workdays
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-stuck-tech-home-covid-longer.html

Tool created to aid cleanup from Microsoft hack in broad use
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-tool-aid-cleanup-microsoft-hack.html

Novel cathode designed for high-performance sodium ion batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-cathode-high-performance-sodium-ion-batteries.html

Why the semiconductor shortage won't end soon
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-semiconductor-shortage-wont.html

holograms at home
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-doodles-real-holograms-home.html

Wi-Fi Aware allows neighboring 8.0 Android phones to connect
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-wi-fi-aware-neighboring-android.html

During emergencies, social media is a critical channel for warnings
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-emergencies-social-media-critical-channel.html

Sweden's fastest supercomputer for AI is now online
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-sweden-fastest-supercomputer-ai-online.html

Artificial intelligence revolution offers benefits and challenges
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-artificial-intelligence-revolution-benefits.html

[Fascist] US prosecutors demand Facebook, Twitter crack down on anti-vaccine posts [free speech]
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-prosecutors-demand-facebook-twitter-anti-vaccine.html

Study explains why some new stories get more clicks from social media than others
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-stories-clicks-social-media.html

travel boom—in virtual reality
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-pandemic-fuels-boomin-virtual-reality.html


3. ASTRONOMY

Cold molecular clouds as cosmic ray detectors
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-cold-molecular-clouds-cosmic-ray.html

Something invisible is tearing apart the nearest star cluster to Earth
https://www.sott.net/article/450587-Something-invisible-is-tearing-apart-the-nearest-star-cluster-to-Earth

Hubble captures re-energized planetary nebula
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-hubble-captures-re-energized-planetary-nebula.html

chemical composition of globular cluster NGC 6553
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-chilean-chemical-composition-globular-cluster.html

Astronomers image magnetic fields at the edge of M87's [so-called] black hole
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-astronomers-image-magnetic-fields-edge.html

New light on baryonic matter and gravity on cosmic scales
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-baryonic-gravity-cosmic-scales.html

New Comet C/2021 D2 (ZTF)
https://www.sott.net/article/450467-New-Comet-C-2021-D2-ZTF

New Comet C/2020 F7 (Lemmon)
https://www.sott.net/article/450611-New-Comet-C-2020-F7-Lemmon

Large asteroid to (safely) zip past Earth
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-large-asteroid-safely-earth.html

Mars water loss shaped by seasons and storms
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-mars-loss-seasons-storms.html

NASA Image Online Library
- https://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/image-online-library.htm
- https://images.nasa.gov/

Curious Cloud around Martian volcano
https://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/curious-cloud.htm


4. EARTH SCIENCE

'Frodosome': Brand new organelle discovered in human cells
https://www.sott.net/article/450545-Frodosome-Brand-new-organelle-discovered-in-human-cells

Controllable 'Neutrobots' created that breach the blood-brain barrier
https://www.sott.net/article/450559-Controllable-Neutrobots-created-that-breach-the-blood-brain-barrier

A powerful solar storm hit Earth back in 1582
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-powerful-solar-storm-earth.html

New theory suggests large blobs of material in Earth's mantle are remnants of protoplanet Theia (one beneath parts of the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean) [That's why Africa didn't move when asteroid impacted Pangaea north of Madagascar?]
- https://phys.org/news/2021-03-theory-large-blobs-material-earth.html
- https://www.newgeology.us/

Flood Solves Mystery of Amazon Sea
https://www.icr.org/article/flood-solves-mystery-of-amazon-sea/

Cave Art Beneath the Waves by France
https://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/cave-beneath-waves.htm

Scientists Find Dinosaur Fossil Atop a Nest of Preserved Eggs
- https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/scientists-dinosaur-fossil-atop-nest-211435228.html
- https://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/upending-vertebrate-origins.htm

Coppersmiths in ancient Wisconsin
https://www.sis-group.org.uk/news/coppersmiths-ancient-wisconsin.htm

The World’s Oldest Known Wooden Statue Is Over 7,000 Years Older Than Stonehenge [bad dating]
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-oldest-known-wooden-statue-is-even-older-than-we-thought

The world’s earliest stone technologies are likely to be older than previously thought
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-world-earliest-stone-technologies-older.html

using ancient DNA to rewrite human history
https://www.vox.com/22256790/ancient-dna-archaeology-ethics-podcast-unexplainable

Sprawling 5,000-year-old cemetery and fortress discovered in Poland
https://www.livescience.com/ancient-cemetery-fortress-discovered-poland.html

Locating 70 Missing Egyptian Pyramids Near Giza: Is This a Lost 'Valley of the Kings?'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=slfk-5AoKYE

Ancient Lava Proves Cuicuilco's Real Age?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1uhw3gDj9Kg

"Worlds Biggest Megaliths" Found In Siberia?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4khpsTrNXZM

Cyclopea ~ A Wall Built By Giants? [Looks like a natural formation]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9hsQxSO92_c