#Tesla crushes coronavirus delivery expectations, stock soars

“#Tesla crushes coronavirus delivery expectations, stock soars” July 2, 2020 | 10:25am Enlarge Image Tesla CEO Elon Musk Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images Shares of Elon Musk’s electric car company, which have already tripled this year, soared another 9 percent on Thursday after the company blew past Wall Street’s second-quarter delivery expectations. Telsa said it delivered 90,650…

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#A path to new nanofluidic devices applying spintronics technology

“#A path to new nanofluidic devices applying spintronics technology” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers in the ERATO Saitoh Spin Quantum Rectification Project in the JST Strategic Basic Research Programs have elucidated the mechanism of the hydrodynamic power generation using spin currents in micrometer-scale channels, finding that power generation efficiency improves drastically as the size of…

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#Arctic plants may not provide predicted carbon sequestration potential

“#Arctic plants may not provide predicted carbon sequestration potential” Professor Philip Wookey, of the University of Stirling, is leading the programme of work. Credit: University of Stirling The environmental benefits of taller, shrubbier tundra plants in the Arctic may be overstated, according to new research involving the University of Stirling. Current ecosystem and climate models…

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#Understanding the circadian clocks of individual cells

“#Understanding the circadian clocks of individual cells” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Two new studies led by UT Southwestern scientists outline how individual cells maintain their internal clocks, driven both through heritable and random means. These findings, published online May 1 in PNAS and May 27 in eLife, help explain how organisms’ circadian clocks maintain flexibility…

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#Grazing disputes in Kyrgyzstan reveal pasture access concerns for herders

“#Grazing disputes in Kyrgyzstan reveal pasture access concerns for herders” Yurts in a valley in Kyrgyzstan. Credit: EJ Wolfson via Unsplash In early June, livestock herders from two neighboring districts in Kyrgyzstan’s Naryn oblast, or administrative region, clashed over disagreements regarding pasture access. Grazing disputes are not new, however, for herders in Kyrgyzstan, where glaciers…

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#Fluorine enables separation-free ‘chiral chromatographic analysis’

“#Fluorine enables separation-free ‘chiral chromatographic analysis’” Mechanism and utilities of the 19F NMR-based separation-free enantiodifferentiation. Credit: Zhao Yanchun Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed a new platform for rapid chiral analysis, producing chromatogram-like output without the need for separation. The study was published in Cell…

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