Month: March 2025

Infinix introduces a tri-fold flip phone concept

Most smartphones with foldable OLED displays have a single fold point that either lets you fold a small tablet-sized device in half for use as a phone or fold a phone-sized device in half like a flip phone. But last year Huawei introduced the first tri…

Most smartphones with foldable OLED displays have a single fold point that either lets you fold a small tablet-sized device in half for use as a phone or fold a phone-sized device in half like a flip phone. But last year Huawei introduced the first tri-fold phone that folds up like a map, giving you […]

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Xiaomi 15 Ultra im Hands-on: Xiaomis Kamera-Klopper

Xiaomi legt bei seinem neuen Ultra-Modell den Fokus wieder stark auf die Kamera – das Kameramodul ist dabei ziemlich klobig geraten. Ein Hands-on von Tobias Költzsch (MWC 2025, Smartphone)

Xiaomi legt bei seinem neuen Ultra-Modell den Fokus wieder stark auf die Kamera - das Kameramodul ist dabei ziemlich klobig geraten. Ein Hands-on von Tobias Költzsch (MWC 2025, Smartphone)

Raumfahrt: Blue Ghost von Firefly setzt professionell auf dem Mond auf

Firefly gelingt, was bislang kein Mondlander einer Privatfirma schaffte: eine saubere Landung auf dem Erdtrabanten ohne Probleme und Zwischenfälle. Von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Mondlandung, Nasa)

Firefly gelingt, was bislang kein Mondlander einer Privatfirma schaffte: eine saubere Landung auf dem Erdtrabanten ohne Probleme und Zwischenfälle. Von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Mondlandung, Nasa)

An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station

The largest study yet of the ISS’s microbes hints we’re may be keeping it too clean.

Astronauts on the International Space Station often suffer from various immune system dysfunctions, including allergies and skin rashes, even though they go through rigorous screening and are probably among the healthiest people on (or at least near) Earth. “It’s hard to pinpoint the exact causes for a lot of these symptoms, but we believe microbiome disruptions that happen in their bodies and in their environment up there could be playing an important part”, says Rodolfo Salido Benitez, a bioengineering researcher at the University of California, San Diego who co-authored the largest study on the ISS microbiome to date.

After analyzing over 800 samples collected by astronauts in multiple modules of the United States Orbital Segment in the ISS, Benitez and his team concluded the microbial and chemical environment on the station closely resembled the one found at COVID-19 isolation wards during the height of the pandemic. And that may be less than ideal for keeping people healthy.

Swabbing the space decks

Monitoring microbial life on the ISS is an ongoing effort, and studies of this sort have been done before, although at a much smaller scale. “Previous studies used a low number of samples that could not identify all microbial and chemical factors present up there,” said Nina Zhao, a researcher at the UCSD and co-author of the study.

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