Egghead Content / Egghead Content for 嘿嘿视频 en NIH Renews Support for Lab Mouse Repository for Fifth Time /blog/nih-renews-support-lab-mouse-repository-fifth-time <p><span>The National Institutes of Health has renewed its grant to support the </span><a href="https://www.mmrrc.org/"><span>Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Center</span></a><span> at the University of California, Davis. This is the 26th year of operation for the MMRRC and the fifth consecutive competitive renewal of the grant, now $7.2 million in total costs over the next five years.&nbsp;</span></p> February 13, 2025 - 3:59pm Andy Fell /blog/nih-renews-support-lab-mouse-repository-fifth-time Diving in Antarctica /blog/diving-antarctica <p><span>The McMurdo Dry Valleys don鈥檛 look like they belong in Antarctica. Largely devoid of snow, the landscape is mostly dirt and rock. When explorer Robert Falcon Scott trekked the area in 1903, he referred to it as 鈥渢he valley of the dead.鈥�</span></p><p><span>But that name is a misnomer. While life may not be evident to the naked eye, beneath the icy surface of Lake Fryxell, microscopic communities teem with life. Microbes, nematode worms and tardigrades thrive in this environment.</span></p> February 11, 2025 - 2:06pm Andy Fell /blog/diving-antarctica Tony Tyson: Sifting Through the Cosmic Noise /blog/tony-tyson-sifting-through-cosmic-noise <p><span>In a dark, light-tight room on the fifth floor of the 嘿嘿视频 Physics Building, researchers recreate the night sky. But the simulated sky isn鈥檛 projected onto a wall or ceiling. Instead, a large, tube-like device, housed in a transparent cage, uses a reticle mask, also known as a photomask, to achieve the simulation. Wires crisscross the instrument 鈥� known as an optical simulator 鈥� and liquid nitrogen cools it when it鈥檚 in use.</span></p> February 07, 2025 - 9:51am Andy Fell /blog/tony-tyson-sifting-through-cosmic-noise Creating Nanoislands for Better Platinum Catalysts /blog/creating-nanoislands-better-platinum-catalysts <p>Noble metals such as platinum can make useful catalysts to accelerate chemical reactions, particularly hydrogenation (adding hydrogen atoms to a molecule). The research team led by Professor Bruce Gates at the 嘿嘿视频 Department of Chemical Engineering is interested in making platinum catalysts that are highly efficient and stable during chemical reactions.&nbsp;</p> January 28, 2025 - 4:27pm Andy Fell /blog/creating-nanoislands-better-platinum-catalysts New Angle Etching Technique for Making Quantum Devices /blog/new-angle-etching-technique-making-quantum-devices <p><span lang="EN">Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have demonstrated an angle etching method for fabricating quantum photonic devices at the wafer scale in silicon carbide.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span lang="EN">Color centers are the essential hub for photons (particles of light) in quantum devices. They are the components that emit and maintain photons, functioning as a quantum memory bank.</span><span> </span><span lang="EN">However, they are challenging to fabricate, particularly for the industrial development of quantum technology.&nbsp;</span></p> January 24, 2025 - 4:40pm Andy Fell /blog/new-angle-etching-technique-making-quantum-devices Developing Molecular Windows to Advance Health /blog/developing-molecular-windows-advance-health <p><span>The image is like an abstract stained-glass window. Set against a black background, a nexus of fluorescent greens, yellows and blues mushrooms out into purples and deep reds. It鈥檚 striking 鈥� the beauty of cells when viewed through the lens of mass spectrometry.</span></p> January 16, 2025 - 4:50pm Andy Fell /blog/developing-molecular-windows-advance-health Is This Universe Tuned to Support Life? /blog/universe-tuned-support-life <p><span>For life to flourish, the universe had to meet a nesting doll of conditions. The quantum fluctuations that led to the Big Bang had to be just right to kickstart the cosmological chemistry necessary for star, galaxy and planetary formation. Eventually, conditions on one of these planets 鈥� Earth 鈥� were just right to support the rise of organic matter, leading to the evolution of life. Leading to us.</span></p><p><span>Was the universe tuned to support life? Or was it cosmological happenstance?</span></p> January 10, 2025 - 3:17pm Andy Fell /blog/universe-tuned-support-life A Legacy of Jimmy Carter: Craft Beer /blog/legacy-jimmy-carter-craft-beer <p>With the passing of <a href="https://www.cartercenter.org/about/experts/jimmy_carter.html">Jimmy Carter</a>, it is perhaps worth mentioning one small legacy from his presidency: the legalization of homebrewing and the craft beer revolution.&nbsp;</p> January 06, 2025 - 3:24pm Andy Fell /blog/legacy-jimmy-carter-craft-beer Solving the Moving Sofa Problem /blog/solving-moving-sofa-problem <p>Korean mathematician Jineon Baek may have come up with a proof for a long-standing problem: What is the largest object that can fit around a corner of a certain size?&nbsp;</p> December 13, 2024 - 4:14pm Andy Fell /blog/solving-moving-sofa-problem Eye, Robot: Researchers Give Machines a New Perspective with Active Vision /blog/eye-robot-researchers-give-machines-new-perspective-active-vision <p><span lang="EN-US">When </span><a href="https://mae.ucdavis.edu/directory/iman-soltani"><span lang="EN-US">Iman Soltani</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> worked in the automotive industry, he studied assembly floors and noticed that each automated task had its specific robotic design.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">He also noticed that while a robot would need multiple cameras affixed to several locations for the best possible sightline, an operator on the assembly floor would move their head and neck to get the best view as they manipulated components.</span></p> November 26, 2024 - 2:46pm Andy Fell /blog/eye-robot-researchers-give-machines-new-perspective-active-vision