See also stories tagged with Sony

Search results for Sony

Astronomy Feb 24, 2025

Colliding plasma ejections from the sun generate huge geomagnetic storms

The sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. When two of these ejections collide, they can generate powerful ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 7, 2025

The spliceosome: An atomic-level look into how cells avoid errors when manufacturing mRNA

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a basic requirement for ...

Environment Jan 30, 2025

Central India's indigenous forests are falling victim to bullets and bulldozers

The state of Chhattisgarh in India's tribal heartland has been the epicenter of a violent conflict for more than 30 years. This struggle has pit a Maoist-inspired group called the Naxalites, who are fighting for the rights ...

General Physics Dec 19, 2024

When solar probes align: Data confirms how sun's magnetic field accelerates solar wind

When two probes orbiting the sun aligned with one another, researchers harnessed the opportunity to track the sun's magnetic field as it traveled into the solar system. They found that the sharply oscillating magnetic field ...

Economics & Business Dec 6, 2024

In at least one leading company, foreign-born talents are paid less

In the national debate over legal immigration, the H-1B visa program has acquired a special significance. Immigration skeptics contend that the program—reserved for high-skilled foreign nationals working in tech and other ...

Astronomy Apr 7, 2024

Eclipse viewing safety: Keeping your & your kid's vision safe

People preparing to watch Monday's total eclipse of the sun need to protect their vision during the event, eye doctors say.

Biotechnology Mar 20, 2023

A sowing, pruning, and harvesting robot for Synecoculture farming

Synecoculture is a new agricultural method advocated by Dr. Masatoshi Funabashi, senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL), in which various kinds of plants are mixed and grown in high density, ...

Cell & Microbiology Jan 20, 2023

How antioxidants produced by mitochondria reach the cell surface to protect against death

Antioxidants are often advertised as a cure-all in nutrition and offered as dietary supplements. However, our body also produces such radical scavengers itself, one of which is coenzyme Q. Now researchers from the Max Planck ...

Economics & Business Jan 5, 2023

The effect of investing in foreign countries to pay lower taxes on economic productivity

An increasingly connected world and a strong digital economy have made it easier for multinational companies to have investments in multiple countries. This investment, where the company buys a controlling stake in a foreign ...

Archaeology Dec 8, 2022

Murderous 1600s pirate hid out in US colonies with impunity

One tarnished silver coin at a time, the ground is yielding new evidence that in the late 1600s, one of the world's most ruthless pirates wandered the American colonies with impunity.

page 1 from 40