Ars Technica

Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.

When Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine hardware last month, some eagle-eyed gamers may have been surprised to see that the official spec sheet lists support for HDMI 2.0 output, rather than ...
IEEE

A Biased-SECE Interface for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting with Geometric-Mean-Computational MPPT Achieving 99.9% MPPT Efficiency, $8.75\text{Cycles}/\Delta \mathrm{V}_{\text ...

In contrast, the perturb-and-observe (P&O) [2] and duty-cycle-based (DCB) [3] MPPT methods sense the harvested output to avoid discontinuities in energy extraction. However, the intermediate VRECT and ...
C&EN

Impact of High-Temperature Cooling Cycles on the Physicomechanical and Seepage–Heat Transfer Properties of Granite

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Geothermal energy, recognized as a renewable, environmentally friendly, low-carbon, ...
PNAS

Incorporation of polylactic acid microplastics into the carbon cycle as a carbon source to remodel the endogenous metabolism of the gut

The growing presence of polylactic acid microplastics (PLA-MPs) in aqueous and alimentary contexts has led to increased oral exposure. Understanding primary biological processes of PLA-MPs in the gut ...
C&EN

Life Cycle Assessment in the Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification of Land-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal: Gaps and Opportunities

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been widely used to evaluate the carbon negativity and ...
PNAS

Thermodynamic consistency of autocatalytic cycles

Describing the processes behind the origin of life requires us to better understand self-amplifying dynamics in complex chemical systems. Detecting autocatalytic cycles is a critical but challenging ...
MacRumors

iPhone Upgrade Cycles Are Getting Shorter Again

iPhone users are upgrading their devices at a slightly faster rate, reversing a long-term trend of increasingly long upgrade cycles, Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) reports. According ...
Nature

Moonstruck: tropical mammals take their cues from lunar cycles

Even in the darkest reaches of tropical forests, many mammals respond to the Moon 1. Changes in animal behaviour have been linked to lunar cycles in the past, but little is known about the response of ...
Frontiers

Reproductive outcomes in fresh transfer cycles and antagonists with premature luteinizing and/or progesterone surge: a single center retrospective cohort study

1 First Clinical Medical College of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, Shandong, China 2 Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated Hospital, Jinan, ...
Frontiers

Can time-lapse culture combined with artificial intelligence improve ongoing pregnancy rates in fresh transfer cycles of single cleavage stage embryos?

1 Reproductive Medicine Center, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China 2 Department of Reproductive Medicine Center, Xiangyang Central Hospital, Affiliated ...
Game Rant

What Is HDMI 2.1 and Why Is It Important for Gaming Monitors and TVs?

Elvis Shida is a Tech/Hardware Writer from Kenya. He has been building PCs for a decade and is keenly interested in motherboards, monitors, and gaming TVs. When not building PCs or writing about ...