Project Silica is developing the first-ever storage technology designed and built from the ground up for the cloud, using femtosecond lasers to store data.

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Stricter standards from the Mine Safety and Health Administration included monitoring dust exposure and providing health exams.

Glass—whether used to insulate our homes or as the screens in our computers and smartphones—is a fundamental material. Yet, despite its long usage throughout human history, the disordered structure of its atomic configuration still baffles scientists, making understanding and controlling its structural nature challenging. It also makes it difficult to design efficient functional materials made from glass.

After the announcement by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration of a four-month delay in enforcement of the "silica rule," some in the region are worried about what that delay signals for miners' safety. The rule, issued last April, gave mine operators a year to upgrade respiratory protection programs

"DO NOT EAT." No matter how tempting you may find that little white packet at the bottom of your beef jerky package, it is not for human consumption. Silica gel…

Microsoft is moving from big, powerful AI LLM chatbots to SLMs, or AI that can squeeze into the constraints of a PC. Its first effort is Phi Silica for Copilot+ PCs.

Coating something rare—tiny shards of diamond—with the main ingredient in sand might sound unusual, but the end result turns out to have a number of valuable applications. The trick is, nobody knows for sure how the two materials bond.

By encoding data optically into glass, Microsoft hopes create ultra-durable storage unaffected by environmental factors.

Some residents are mobilizing against Nexgen Silica's proposal, which they fear would tarnish the area by scattering wildlife, damaging water systems, and sending toxic dust into the air.

Prof. Huang Qunying's team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. Ning Shunyan's team from South China University, developed a novel silica-based adsorbent for the highly selective separation of strontium (Sr) from an acidic medium.

Residents of the Appalachian region of the US are significantly more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis when they work in coal mines or have exposure to silica dust, a recent study suggests.

Water is transported by oceanic plates into the Earth's deep interior and changes the properties of minerals and rocks, affecting the Earth's internal material cycle and environmental evolution since the formation of the Earth.

Optical MNFs are cylindrical optical waveguides with diameter below or close to the wavelength of the light. Since its first experimental demonstration, low-loss silica MNF has been attracting increasing attention in wide applications from optical sensors, atom optics, nonlinear optics to optomechanics.

Since 2005, central Appalachia has recorded a tenfold increase in cases of severe black lung disease among long-term coal miners. Now, federal regulators are expected to propose a new rule to prote…

JEFFERSON CITY — A company with plans to mine silica sand close to Ste. Genevieve County residents who oppose it was handed a loss Thursday before the Missouri Mining Commission.

3,500 films or 1.75 million songs can be stored on a single, small glass disk. Microsoft is currently developing the data storage of the future.

At a hearing miners asked regulators to crack down on silica dust which causes lung cancer. They want rules to require more air monitoring and contain specifics about citations and fines.

That same day, the mining company sued the county in an effort to overturn an ordinance designed to block the project.

Communication and coordination among different cells are fundamental aspects that regulate many functions in our body. This process, known as paracrine signaling, involves the release of signaling molecules by a cell into its extracellular matrix (ECM) or surroundings to communicate changes in its cellular processes or the local environment. These signaling molecules are then detected by neighboring cells, leading…