‘They’ll Have to Bend the Knee and Kiss the Ring’: What We Heard This Week
“Like the law firms, they’ll have to bend the knee and kiss the ring.” — Bryan Carmody, MD, of Norfolk, Virginia, discussing a new executive order by President Trump that targeted medical school and residency accreditors for their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) standards. “It’s likely that letters were sent to many more journals. CHEST‘s […]
Stretching the capacity of flexible energy storage
Some electronics can bend, twist and stretch in wearable displays, biomedical applications and soft robots. While these devices’ circuits have become increasingly pliable, the batteries and supercapacitors that power them are still rigid. Now, researchers in ACS’ Nano Letters report a flexible supercapacitor with electrodes made of wrinkled titanium carbide — a type of MXene […]