IEEE

Microbump Interconnections Using Vertical Wire Technology for the Power Connections Between SoC and Substrate in the Bridge Die-Based Packaging Platform

Abstract: In this study, vertical wire technology was employed to provide a power-line connection between a system-on-chip (SoC) and a substrate. Metallurgical bonding was performed between the ...
Scientific American

One scientist’s 10-year quest to calculate the strength of gravity

Earth’s gravitational force, g, has been known for centuries. But the exact value of G, the universal gravitational constant, ...

Carbon nanotube wiring gets closer to competing with copper

Relevant to this last application, the doping doesn’t alter the durability of the (very tough) carbon nanotube fibers. They ...
New Atlas

Recumbent trike debuts bizarre pedal-by-wire drive system

For more than 140 years, the bicycle chain has barely changed. Inspired Cycle Engineering (ICE), a UK-based recumbent trike ...
Wall Street Journal

Two Chinese Tankers Carrying Iraqi and Saudi Crude Exit Hormuz

Two oil tankers owned by China’s state-owned or state-linked companies sailed across the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday morning, according to ship tracker MarineTraffic. The two vessels—Cospearl Lake ...
SABC

Two Oceans Marathon kicks off this weekend

The 2026 Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon will be held in Cape Town this weekend. The event features a 56-kilometre Ultra Marathon on Saturday and a 21.1-kilometre Half Marathon on Sunday. Over 30 000 ...
Yahoo

A boom operator on an Air Force tanker earned two DFCs for combat flights

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Air Force Staff Sgt. Gabrielle Stallings was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses for recent combat sorties, one with a "C" ...
Al Jazeera English

US-Iran ceasefire deal: What are the terms, and what’s next?

A two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran has halted 40 days of US-Israeli attacks on Iran that had pushed the region to the brink of a wider war. The truce, brokered by Pakistan, ...
CNN

The US and Iran have agreed a ceasefire, with talks to bridge the gulf between them. Here’s what to know

After a month and a half of spiraling conflict in the Middle East, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday – less than two hours before US President Donald Trump’s ...
The Guardian

Aftermath of a rescue: wreckage of aircraft at site of US mission in Iran

In a patch of desert in Isfahan province, personnel clear the site where just hours earlier two C-130 planes and two helicopters were destroyed Middle East crisis – live updates The small farming ...
Time

‘Safe and sound’: How a U.S. Airman Shot Down in Iran Was Rescued From a Mountain Crevice

A United States Air Force member who was missing behind enemy lines for more than 24 hours after his F-15E fighter jet was shot down in Iran on Friday has been rescued, President Donald Trump ...
PBS

What to know about the daring rescue of two U.S. aviators shot down in Iran

The United States pulled off a daring rescue of two aviators whose fighter jet was shot down by Iran, plucking the pilot from behind enemy lines before setting off a complicated extraction of the ...