For these reasons, electrically powered planes could solve emission problems and, just like electrically powered cars, would be quieter than current commercial alternatives.
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It uses this electrically conducting paper with some lines drawn in conducting ink (the two silver lines you see in the picture) to represent electrically charged plates.
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"What's happened is a new type of electrically-driven laser technology has evolved in the last 10 years where we can build very high power lasers that are very electrically efficient," said Afzal.
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These are electrically neutral, and thus immune to such disturbances.
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With its disemboweled boom boxes, it's chaotic and electrically grotesque.
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He said warning lights had indicated the car was electrically unsafe.
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When electrically stimulated, this pathway triggers instantaneous laughter in the patient.
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But the surge of electrically charged particles can damage crucial technology.
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Newly cooled, structurally sound lava flows are much more electrically resistant.
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Some 70 percent of the Andean country's energy is supplied hydro-electrically.
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They're actually electrically active polymer membranes made to function like artificial muscles.
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When it's not electrically zapping you, the Shock Clock is reasonably comfortable.
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"Electrically-assisted mountain bike is a new challenge for me," he said.
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An atom, which has equal numbers of both, is therefore electrically neutral.
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But charging wirelessly is no more electrically efficient than using a cord.
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The Taycan plunges into a bath of water-based, electrically conductive paint.
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Hybrid electric, electrically-chargeable and other alternatively powered cars accounted for 7.4%.
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Good thing that it happened where my heart could be electrically restarted.
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I believed that electrically powered vehicles would solve the vehicle pollution problem.
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How is it, then, that "Infinite Jest" still feels so transcendentally, electrically alive?
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It is also electrically narrative, although the particulars of the story evade viewers.
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Electrically powered vehicles account for a just a fraction of GM's overall sales.
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The electrically assisted steering is accurate and nicely weighted but kind of numb.
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This deflection happens because seawater is both electrically conductive and always on the move.
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These are the electrically charged jets of particles observed shooting away from black holes.
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Dozens of firms are working on electrically powered planes of all shapes and sizes.
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The technology uses a thin electrically-charged film spread across the headphone's moving diaphragm.
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Add electrically powered vehicles to the mix and an optimist might say, "problem solved".
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It has methane lakes, electrically charged sand, and allegedly, an ocean hiding under its crust.
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It is an electrically powered passenger-carrying pod produced by RDM, a firm in Coventry.
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Bidet seats are occasionally controlled mechanically, but usually they're powered electrically and have special features.
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Namely: robotic, future-dreaming funk, tightly composed with electrically bright synths and bombastic 80s drums.
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His device has been shown to electrically stimulate better memory formation in rats and monkeys.
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In the nucleus are two types of particles: positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons.
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The aircraft are invariably electrically powered, although some are hybrids with a backup combustion engine.
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The auroral activity happens when the sun releases electrically charged particles into the Earth's atmosphere.
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The magnetic field is generated by the churning of electrically charged fluids at the core.
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Either pilot can control the stabilizers electrically using switches at the top of the yoke.
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Further results were confirmed by electrically stimulating the stumps of the fin nerve and peripheral nerves.
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Let's start with range, which is the biggest hangup for any kind of electrically-powered vehicle.
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Well, our planet's magnetic field leaves a long funnel of electrically-charged particles in its wake.
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We've never performed electrically outdoors here in town, just because it's hard to set that up.
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Guillot thinks that may be because the gases inside the core are electrically charged, or ionized.
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It could also potentially augment electrically powered spacecraft propulsion systems on missions to the outer planets.
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They work with a super-thin electrically charged diaphragm, explaining how they get their weird name.
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Cubiio uses two electrically-controlled mirrors to guide the direction and movement of the laser beam.
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The second has cells growing directly on electrodes, which measure electrically what cells are up to.
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Lilium, another German company, uses a variation of the theme with 36 electrically powered fan jets.
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What's more, many asteroids probably have a layer of electrically-charged fine to coarse dust, called regolith.
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The kit uses a special non-toxic paint that is electrically conductive, called (very aptly) Electric Paint.
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His work demonstrated that electrically stimulating the brain could elicit movement and on occasion even particular emotions.
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This film has electrically conducting threads running through it to form a set of grids (see picture).
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But electrically controlling them with an app and having illuminated flush door handles is asking for trouble.
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It could also serve to replace funds from fuel taxes, which won't apply to electrically powered AVs.
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The experiments involved heating the ionosphere, which is an upper, electrically charged layer of the planet's atmosphere.
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The printed circuit board is electrically connected to the light emitting diode, the photo diode, the buzzer.
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The FAA has no requirements or voluntary standards for electrically broadcasting information to identify an unmanned aircraft.
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It appears when electrically charged particles from the sun collide with oxygen and nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere.
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Those switches are for electrically controlling the trim — the angle of the stabilizers on the plane's tail.
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There are four rotors used for lift and four tilt-rotors used to maneuver, all electrically driven.
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The scientists also stimulated those cells electrically, without any tickling or play, and got the same calls.
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When a microbe lands on a copper surface, the copper releases ions, which are electrically charged particles.
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In reality, however, it is the web of electrically powered devices, and the computing resources they access.
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Further, customers can press the mute button on the top of the device, which electrically disconnects the microphones.
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Since then, the vision of an electrically powered commercial airplane has gone from a dream to a possibility.
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The idea is to use a sheet of electrically conducting paper to sort of map out the field.
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E-volo, a German aviation startup, has been pursuing ultralight, electrically powered multicopter technology for several years now.
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At this point, the ions become electrically neutral, so gravity is the only remaining force acting on them.
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E-volo, a German aviation startup, has been pursuing ultralight, electrically powered "multicopter" technology for several years now.
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Unlike Nikola Tesla, another electrically gifted citizen of what is now Croatia, he is staying put for now.
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"Just discovering that these bacteria can communicate electrically to coordinate not only their behavior within biofilm," said Süel.
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His work remains frenetic and electrically charged, as careening — and yet also as confident — as a bobsled racer.
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And two long-dead men, whose names she speaks with proprietary pride, become electrically present in their absence.
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These sensors could detect changes in the ionosphere, the part of the atmosphere with lots of electrically charged particles.
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It aims collect information about radio waves passing through Earth's ionosphere, the electrically charged outer layer of the atmosphere.
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Long lines also form at gas stations as drivers prepare for the electrically-operated gas pumps to lose power.
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That means Earth is constantly awash in magnetic, electrically charged particles from the sun that scientists don't fully understand.
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These liberated electrons would in turn knock loose other electrons, creating cascades that would make the air electrically conductive.
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They've even designed and developed their own 3D printed electrically-pumped engine which they've been testing for several years.
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It is the result of collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun with particles in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Deep ocean water is rich in naturally occurring electrolytes, which are electrically charged minerals, including sodium, calcium, and potassium.
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Volocopter made history in 2011 with the electrically powered vertical takeoff and landing manned flight, according to the company.
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The sleek angled front also looks like something you'd expect to be electrically powered, if that makes any sense.
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Those models made it seem as if the edge between the sun's atmosphere and surface was fully electrically charged.
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Conversion therapy survivors have described undergoing physical, emotional, and psychological abuse and torture, including being electrically shocked and drugged.
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Now consider this: when the chamber gets hot enough, the insulating oil (often made from petroleum) becomes electrically conductive.
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In this case, scientists measured these waves of plasma, or electrically charged particles, at a frequency that humans can hear.
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Consider how long it has taken for something as simple as electrically powered cars to carve a niche for themselves.
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It electrically turns off the webcam if you want to disable it for privacy reasons when it's not in use.
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While wind-blown sand on Earth can also become electrically charged, the electrostatic forces are typically ephemeral and much weaker.
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The MIT crew is not by any means the first to explore how to electrically stimulate the brain non-invasively.
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That is, subjects were just as sore in the days following electrically stimulated contractions as they were after voluntary exercise.
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To get inside the car, you have to press exterior touch-pads that command the electrically powered doors to open.
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Australian scientists have developed a knitting technique capable of producing electrically-conductive Spandex-carbon nanotube hybrid textiles at industrial scales.
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Still, any time we tinker with the human brain — either pharmacologically, electrically, or physically — we obviously need to be careful.
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To do that, we'll need to see innovation in aircraft design, battery technology, solar cells and electrically powered engines themselves.
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Perhaps the most interesting feature is the inclusion of five rotorless electrically operated drones, which serve a variety of purposes.
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They communicate electrically, through root systems and fungi, like underground computer networks, and also with airborne pheromones, just like animals.
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The company is currently seeing initial indications of a slight upturn in demand from the trend toward electrically powered vehicles.
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The aurora borealis is created by electrically charged particles from the sun hitting the Earth and colliding with the atmosphere.
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Chappelle's genius has always been his ability to elevate seamlessly run-of-the-mill comedic content with his electrically brilliant form.
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Meantime, one's social sphere isn't yet fractured with professional fault lines and infused, sometimes electrically but usually tediously, with omnidirectional antipathy.
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Like the Startup Battlefield competition, where the excitement in the room is so palpable it makes the air feel electrically charged.
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And, because graphene is very thin, very lightweight, electrically conductive, and essentially transparent, it sounds like the perfect cell phone screen.
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In effect, the electrically controlled glass also determines how much heat gets into the car since a darker tint blocks sun.
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Conversely, if at any point in the production process cells are touching at different voltage potentials, they cannot be electrically interconnected.
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Fortunately, the electrically operated, double-hinged doors are also immensely useful — making ingress and egress from the second row a breeze.
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White Lightning is the name of Airbus' first electrically-powered racing aircraft, which was unveiled at the Dubai Airshow on Sunday.
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The virtual currencies known as Ripple and Stellar, which were created after Bitcoin, were designed not to require electrically demanding mining.
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By electrically stimulating some of the isolated cells, they could see how many and what types of messages jumped between them.
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Lamés are electrically conductive; a body cord, connected to a scoreboard by a wire, registers every touch of an opponent's weapon.
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Aurora also emerged as a crucial linchpin in Uber's ambitious plan to develop a network of on-demand, electrically powered VTOL aircraft.
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It's up here, at around 66-69° North latitudes, where the Earth's magnetic field channels electrically charged particles ejected from the sun.
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But all we're seeing is an enormous, electrically charged, carnivorous dino, and we're probably never leaving the safety of our homes again.
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The result of the reaction is aluminium hydroxide, which is electrically neutral, and electrons, which carry away the hydroxide ion's negative charge.
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The polymer solution, spread in strands throughout the plant, acts like a system of wires, creating a ready made, electrically conductive rose.
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It features the same flip-top functionality as your standard butane lighters, but its electrically generated plasma beam burns hotter and cleaner.
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One is connected to solar panels on the roof, while the other is charged electrically for longer distances and journeys at night.
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By 1730, his dual interests in music and electricity had merged into a single obsession with creating an electrically enhanced musical instrument.
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But Young is opening a book that has no time for batting heroics or fulsome electrically lit baseball diamonds in approaching night.
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Letter writers could scribble a message onto electrically charged foil, and the portions covered by ink would block the flow of current.
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The third woman (Soraya Nabipour, in an electrically stylized performance) talks in spasmodic shards that at first sound like some arcane code.
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Standing water can be electrically charged due to fallen power lines that are submerged or those that are underground but still live.
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The electrically heated front windshield was fine, but at points the driver and passenger windows froze over and visibility fell to zero.
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It works by measuring the ease with which ions (electrically charged molecules) can be drawn through an inert gas by an electric field.
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The wafer is coated with an electrically conductive layer of gold, on top of which is added a layer of light-sensitive paint.
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Today, we can genetically engineer neurons to build their own communication devices that deliver messages to and from computers optically, rather than electrically.
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In short, these fast-moving, electrically-charged plastic sheets created some type of effect that prevented humans from passing through an invisible wall.
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That space is known as the interstellar medium or ISM, and Hubble is exposing some of the mysterious electrically charged molecules within it.
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His "Legend Dimly Told" appears to be that of Adam and Eve, who are wearing fig leaves in an electrically colored tropical paradise.
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It's sharply designed, electrically driven, and it accommodates two people in a glamorous manner that very few other brands could hope to match.
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Since Huygens' historic landing, and with Cassini's help, scientists have marveled over Titan's "magic" disappearing islands, counterintuitive dune patterns, and electrically charged sand.
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Some, like Jump, also offer electrically powered pedal assistance, which is sure to help when you're trying to tackle San Francisco's notorious hills.
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Hair is electrically insulating so it's bad at getting rid of the static electricity that can build up in cold and dry weather.
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The Pacifica Hybrid uses a modified version of Chrysler's 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 engine, coupled to a dual electric motor electrically variable transmission.
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Also, there are electrically charged magnets, which Pekar uses in her practice, and Dr. Zeichner says it further stimulates collagen and wound healing.
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To keep from being swept further down the canal, both boys reportedly grabbed hold of a bridge, not knowing it was electrically charged.
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But make no mistake — this bike is electrically assisted, meaning you won't be able to just use the motor to power you around.
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Plasma is the fourth state of matter—an electrically conductive cloud of ultra-dense gas that is composed of ions and free electrons.
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On March 10, 1989, there was a massive explosion on the Sun—one that delivered a wallop of electrically charged particles to Earth.
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Flash storage is form of computer memory that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed to help a computer perform tasks quickly and efficiently.
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Powering a supercharger electrically can bring a 30 percent gain in torque at low engine speeds, at an added cost of about $250.
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The VNS implant electrically stimulates the nerve at programmed intervals, in much the same way a pacemaker helps maintain a regular heart rhythm.
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This treatment involves an aesthetician placing electrically charged pads on the face to stimulate facial muscles, which immediately tightens and tones the skin.
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Riders demonstrate their basic two-wheeler skills on an electrically-assisted bicycle, then they are offered a ride on a Zero electric motorcycle.
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Adewale Fayemi, the manager for Uganda at Total, said the project will become "the longest electrically heated crude oil pipeline in the world".
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The electrically powered driverless drones -- named Ehang 184 -- have already been seen hovering above the sand dunes near the city's airfield during test flights.
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The knees have electrically controlled tension settings that tighten when the wearer is standing up and swing freely when they're walking with the device.
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Becker and his team explained that electrically neutral gas absorbs the Lyman alpha light, but ionized gas, atoms that have missing electrons, does not.
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Jaunt's converted Land Rover is only a prototype (that hasn't been finished yet), but it'll give adventurous drivers a way to explore Australia, electrically.
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The focus on electrically-propelled aircraft reflects a rush to develop urban flying taxis (coming soon) and longer range fully electric planes (coming later).
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During the cruise jet engines are throttled back, so for that stage of the flight the plane would use electrically powered ducted fans instead.
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Despite competitors like The Cold Shoulder and Cool Fat Burner, Paulin claims Thin Ice is the only electrically powered vest with Bluetooth cooling technology.
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He found that rats who had their brains electrically stimulated in a particular area would keep doing a given activity, like pressing a lever.
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Safran hopes for an inaugural contract for its new E-Taxi electrically powered aircraft taxiing system at the Farnborough Airshow in July, Petitcolin said.
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They therefore designed a version in which the rotor is electrically powered and pumps hydraulic fluid rapidly into and out of the shock absorber.
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Most conventional drones achieve this with a number of small, electrically powered rotors mounted on the corner of the vehicle, or on extended arms.
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Normally, the scrubber's AI would have been able to contain the power surge, but these hypercanes were more electrically charged than your everyday thunderstorm.
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I don't think I've ever been more electrically drawn to a scene that I've shot or, frankly, prouder of an episode than that one.
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This separation is usually done with relatively expensive, electrically powered devices that can spin fast and long enough to create the needed centrifugal force.
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The Immutouch stops short of electrically shocking you like the older gadget called Pavlok that's designed to help people quit smoking or opening Facebook.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO For well over a decade, Beth Ditto was the frontwoman of Gossip, a compellingly bare-bones and electrically funky dance-punk outfit.
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But another group suggested the possibility that the stress on the Earth's crust could generate electric fields, potentially strong enough to electrically charge air molecules.
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The dust became negatively electrically charged on its way up to the UK, where it partially obscured the Sun, turning it a dim red-orange.
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The Hyperloop concept involves a vast network of interlocking tunnels zipping with electrically-powered superfast sleds ferrying cars and people movers from station to station.
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The Northern Leader has a 100 percent electrically operated propulsion system and 100 percent LED lighting, allowing it to significantly cut down on energy expenditures.
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In an aerial context, where weight is everything, a large or long-distance electrically propelled aircraft will, for the moment, have to be a hybrid.
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The look of the whip is hot, but the mix of being flogged and electrically stimulated was a sensory overload that my body couldn't process.
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One promising strategy: Cover sensitive surfaces with an Electrodynamic Dust Shield — essentially, electrically charged panels that shoot currents through thin wires to zap dust away.
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Martian farms would need clean sources of water, reliable light (perhaps electrically-driven), and big swatches of enclosed space, none of which would come easily.
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Back on February 19, 2014, a geomagnetic storm appeared in our atmosphere following two powerful Earth-directed CMEs, which produced clouds of electrically-charged particles.
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The company said it plans to spin off operations tied to internal combustion engines and focus on technology for electrically powered and self-driving vehicles.
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Brain tissue is soft and flexible, while most of our electrically conductive materials -- the wires that connect to brain tissue -- tend to be very rigid.
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The experiment: In the mid-1800s, Duchenne used small probes to electrically stimulate muscles in the faces of six different people and reproduce various expressions.
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Police said the cargo bike was electrically powered and had been transporting the children from a pre-school center to school when the accident occurred.
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Other emerging memory technologies are based on changing the properties of certain materials, making them more or less electrically resistant or changing their magnetic properties.
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The model revealed that isolated blobs appearing in the liquid could move upward and around the core, creating waves through the liquid's electrically charged atoms.
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The printer, which is remotely controlled by a tablet, is electrically powered and needs a crew of four to six people to build a house.
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In July the EU's Aviation Safety Agency released a "special condition" for the certification of hybrid and electrically powered vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
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Flying taxis, being electrically powered, should be much quieter than helicopters but are still likely to be heard buzzing away overhead, just as drones are.
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Based on this finding, planetary scientists hypothesized Europa might be home to an electrically conductive fluid, like salt water, that was causing the magnetic disturbances.
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These are typically electrically propelled vehicles, they can take off and land vertically, eVTOLs, vertical take-off landing, so that you don't need an airport.
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Disenchanted with the music establishment, he formed his own orchestra and chorus there, which he called MusicAeterna and which became known for electrically charged performances.
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Hewing disquietingly close to the volcano over four days in 2014, the helicopter's winch held a sizable hoop that could electrically excite the rocks below.
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Regardless of how it all pans out for Tesla, Panasonic and the others, it's clear that the future of mobility will at least be electrically driven.
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Although the molecules have been observed in space before, this observation marks the first time that electrically charged C60 has been seen in the interstellar medium.
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Using electrically-generated noise, the group of physicists was then able to heat the particle, thus subjecting it to a thermodynamic cycle, according to the study.
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At it's Elevate conference in Dallas today, Uber is talking about a network of on-demand, electrically powered, multi-rotor vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicles.
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Its prototype rises dronelike into the air, lifted by electrically driven propellers at the end of its wings (which have a combined span of three metres).
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But the energy from nuclear explosions created hot, electrically charged regions within the atmosphere that induced geomagnetic disturbances, and even produced radiation belts of its own.
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This month, however, scientists at MIT presented a fascinating new idea for how to electrically stimulate regions deep inside the brain without implanting anything at all.
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IN 1894, WHEN Louis Antoine Krieger started making electrically powered horseless carriages (pictured above), he introduced a feature that had appeared earlier on some electric trains.
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Electrically-active bacteria acts like a miniature army within the infrastructure, simultaneously cleaning the water and allowing scientists to monitor the microbes in the wastewater remotely.
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Plasma is created when an ionized gas becomes electrically conductive and can be shaped and controlled by electric and magnetic fields, which also exist around Earth.
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Over the course of the production process, we conduct three different tests to ensure the right number of cells are electrically connected in Model 3 modules.
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The Virginia-based company has also emerged as a crucial linchpin in Uber's ambitious plan to develop a network of on-demand, electrically powered VTOL aircraft.
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That means that magnetic, electrically charged particles from the sun are constantly washing over the planets in a steady stream of what's known as solar wind.
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The two have put together a team of about 200 people to work on developing electrically powered aircraft and will make "significant contributions" to the project.
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The probe's early data, released in December, revealed reversals of the solar magnetic field and "bursts" in its stream of electrically charged particles, called solar wind.
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The bitumen shipped by Melius is returned to its solid state through a patented process known as BitCrude, which uses an electrically powered diluent recovery unit.
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The first electrically conductive solid was discovered in the 1830s by British scientist Michael Faraday but it had never worked in a battery at room temperature.
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All of these were ammunition used against him on Thursday night, most electrically when Harris pressed him to defend his opposition to busing to integrate schools.
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Image: Marcelo M. Miller BertolamiWhen some stars get old, they eject gas and dust, forming a cloud of electrically charged material in space called a planetary nebula.
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One of the spacecraft's primary goals is to study solar wind: a stream of electrically charged particles that surges from the sun and washes over the planets.
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"Electronics with just current and voltage is not going to do the trick," she says, pointing out that the brain communicates not just electrically but chemically, too.
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While its electrically charged sand wouldn't make for a relaxing vacation, new research suggests the planet might not be as hostile to robotic visitors as we think.
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Delphi said in May that it planned to spin off operations tied to internal combustion engines and focus on technology for electrically powered and self-driving vehicles.
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These spectacular features are caused by collisions between electrically-charged particles from the Sun that enter the Earth's atmosphere and collide with gases like oxygen and nitrogen.
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They found that the comet's song comes from movements in the object's magnetic field, created by solar particles slamming into Comet 67P's atmosphere and electrically charging it.
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So in an effort to solve this dilemma, the researchers created an extremely thin electrically conducting sheet called a domain wall that is embedded within crystalline structures.
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But the company replaced that truck's drivetrain with an electrically-driven rear axle that is based on the one used by the Mercedes-Benz Citaro hybrid bus.
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The northern lights, which are produced when electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere collide, have been vivid in Iceland for several days.
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And there are still more potential applications for 48-volt systems: Electrically heated catalytic converters, for example, could be an important advance in reducing cold-start emissions.
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The victims were electrically shocked, suffocated, and beaten into false confessions that resulted in many of them being convicted and serving time for crimes they didn't commit.
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Above ground, cars would drive onto electrically-powered sled-like devices that would then descend underground and zip through the tunnels at more than 120 miles per hour.
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"Because it's electrically operated, you have far fewer parts than you do in an internal combustion engine, so your rate of engine failure is much lower," he said.
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Since antiprotons are electrically charged (they are negative; normal protons are positive), gravity's effect on them is swamped by any electromagnetic forces around, which will be much larger.
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Its prototype, which has rear-mounted wings, a pair of canards and is propelled by electrically powered ducted fans rather than propellers, made its maiden flight in May.
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In this case, the branching patterns emerge as an electrically-conductive baking soda solution, brushed onto the piece of wood, is being scorched by a high voltage source.
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When a shooter pulls the trigger of an Axon taser, compressed nitrogen shoots two-pronged darts from the weapon's barrel, which are attached to electrically charged copper wires.
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Lithium is a light, highly conductive metal, but inherently unstable, so it is used instead in a safer form as a compound containing lithium ions (electrically charged particles).
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This USB-rechargeable, flip-top lighter sets objects ablaze quickly and efficiently thanks to an electrically generated plasma beam that burns hotter and cleaner than a butane flame.
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The voices of Oscar Wilde and Dorothy Parker and Benjamin Franklin still feel electrically alive to us because they managed to bake their personas into their brief observations.
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It is not a hybrid, but it employs an electrically driven 230-volt turbine to force extra air into the engine when a spurt of power is needed.
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IIllustration of NASA X-plane concepts / Image courtesy of NASA IIllustration of NASA X-plane concepts / Image courtesy of NASA However, electrically powered planes require an energy source.
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One option for making cheaper components en masse is to print electronic devices, using a process that looks much like conventional printing, but with special, electrically functional inks.
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Their swirling, contradictory intentions—Gordon's interest in finding the Major, Albert's curiosity, Diane's treachery, Hastings's fear—mimic the electrically humming vortex that roils in the sky above Gordon.
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But after a Rhode Island M.C. belittled the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for playing electrically, he rebelliously decided to go electric himself, backed by several Butterfield Blues members.
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Having been aimed at the target, the rocket would then be fired electrically from a distance, avoiding the risk of return fire to the now-obvious firing point.
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To double check the theory that this is where ticklishness comes from, they electrically stimulated the region and found that the rats did indeed emit their signature tickling noise.
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"If we wanted to do a Beetle, electrically it would be much better than today's model, much closer to history, because it could be rear-wheel drive," said Diess.
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The combination of brushless electric motors and lithium-polymer batteries, used in laptops and smartphones, allowed RC aircraft to be electrically powered, making them lighter, quieter and more reliable.
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"This breakthrough in electrically-controlled soft actuators brings us much closer to muscle-like performance in an engineered system and opens the door for countless applications in soft robotics."
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It was a particle like a heavy neutron (but definitely not a neutron), massive, electrically neutral, and stable on time scales long compared to the lifetime of the universe.
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Through laboratory experiments, the researchers found that under Titan-like atmospheric conditions, sand grains collide and become electrically charged, clumping together and remaining clumped for an incredibly long time.
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Electric skateboards like the Boosted Boards make up just small fraction of a rapidly increasing trend of electrically powered vehicles that include bikes, skateboards, hover boards, scooters, and more.
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The following year, J.J. Thomson worked out that "cathode rays" emitted into a vacuum by a negative electrode were electrically charged particles that weighed far less than any atom.
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Image: Johns Hopkins APLWith its oily black seas, hazy golden atmosphere, and electrically charged sand, Saturn's moon Titan is one of the most intriguing objects in the solar system.
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Neutrons have the handy property of being electrically neutral, so they don't get knocked around by materials that may lie between the observer and the thing to be observed.
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The electrically propelled vehicle could eventually monitor and herd cattle, check for invasive plants (and spray them), inspect fences, and even do work around the house like carrying firewood.
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Nakamura founded the company that became Namco in 1955, which started life operating two electrically-powered rocking horses on top of a department store in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo.
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Aurora Borealis happen when electrically charged electrons and protons in the Earth's magnetic field collide with neutral atoms in the upper atmosphere, turning into a stunning show of lights.
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Wind also plays a role in spider voyages, but the new paper establishes that the rapid launches, even in calm weather, can be explained by electrically conductive spider silk.
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And because the brain and nervous system are so conspicuously active electrically, the researchers also began to probe their involvement in long-distance patterns of bioelectric information affecting development.
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This was the game everyone expected when the Maui Invitational got another marquee title game between the what-will-they-do-next Blue Devils against the electrically efficient Zags.
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It's what happens when certain kinds of electrically charged particles travel between a pointy electrode and a flat one, but bump into a puddle of oil along the way.
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The party's energy critic slammed the plan, saying the Liberals would "force [homeowners] to heat electrically in a province with the highest electricity prices on the continent," CBC reported.
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The stability of multirotor flight meant that small electrically powered aircraft could suddenly be used in all kinds of new ways, beyond what was possible with small fixed-wing aircraft.
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Most of the firms that plan to launch electrically powered regional aircraft are starting from scratch, using airframes made from carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics as well as specially designed motors.
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Nearly eight years after David Foster Wallace's suicide, his "Infinite Jest" — which "still feels so transcendentally, electrically alive," as an admirer writes — is being reissued in a 20th-anniversary edition.
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The measurements the spacecraft takes are also expected to yield new insights into the sun's magnetic field and the solar wind that carries electrically charged particles throughout the solar system.
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Neuroscientists have now devised an ingenious way of reducing fear and anxiety during these delicate procedures by electrically stimulating a part of the brain that triggers laughter and good feelings.
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Bijanki, with the help of Emory neurosurgeon Jon T. Willie, electrically stimulated the cingulum bundle of three epilepsy patients as they were undergoing preliminary diagnostic monitoring prior to brain surgery.
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IT IS more than two-and-a-half centuries since Benjamin Franklin grouped a number of electrically charged Leyden jars together and, using a military term, called them a "battery".
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He also played a prerecorded message threatening to slash or electrically shock the victims if they resisted, then drove Huskins away in the trunk of his car, court documents said.
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Kodacrome rigged a elaborate net off electrically-wired lights and motors and a remarkably extensive cache of dollhouse-sized set pieces that remind me of this miniature screen printing press.
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Victor Scheinman, who overcame his boyhood nightmares about a science-fiction movie humanoid to build the first successful electrically powered, computer-controlled industrial robot, died on Tuesday in Petrolia, Calif.
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The atoms in normal matter are mostly empty space: a teeny tiny nucleus of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons enveloped in a fluffy cloud of negatively charged electrons.
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In electrically neutral surroundings, the bacteria-bot just kind of swims around in whatever direction it starts in, but apply some charge and it becomes possible to (very carefully) steer it.
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It's not clear whether AnBot's bigger, sleeker cousin is armed like the AnBot is though — the AnBot has a "electrically charged riot control tool" (or taser), according to the People's Daily.
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Graphene, which is just one atom thick, is strong, highly flexible, electrically conductive and transparent, making it ideal for gathering the sun's energy to generate power, the scientists said on Thursday.
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Over the next decade, the company "will focus on a drive mix consisting of even further optimized petrol engines, plug-in hybrid models, and purely electrically operated sports cars," Blume said.
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As the electrically powered propulsion pushed me back into the bucket seat, I couldn't help but let out an involuntary squeal as my brain tried and failed to process the speed.
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In this the confining magnetism is generated by the movement of the electrically charged particles in the plasma itself, as that plasma spins in a vortex similar to a smoke ring.
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The SpaceX Hyperloop pod competition was a chance for 20 teams of engineering students to race their electrically powered, carbon-fiber pods through SpaceX's three-quarter mile long steel hyperloop tube.
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So when a plume erupts from Europa, the particles slam into the ones from Io, causing an electrically charged traffic jam that creates twists and turns in the moon's magnetic field.
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Neutrinos (a type of extremely light, electrically neutral subatomic particle) would be produced in bulk only by more energetic collisions, as might cosmic rays, most of which are high-energy protons.
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" The Spanish neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal once called the brain and neurons, the electrically active cells that process and transmit nerve signals, the "butterflies of the soul.
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Neurons probed in this way proved electrically active, so the researchers went on to employ arrays of electrodes inserted simultaneously into different parts of an organoid to study its overall activity.
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By increasing the amount of electrically charged particles passing through the chamber, they were able to get more clouds to form out of teeny solid and liquid particles suspended in the chamber.
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At the Beijing Motor Show Monday morning, Audi debuted its new connected mobility concept, which uses smartphone integration as well as an electrically driven longboard skateboard/scooter hybrid to streamline your commute.
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However, a 2013 study in the medical journal Nature showed that in rats addicted to cocaine, electrically stimulating a brain region linked to impulse control helped them get rid of their habit.
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Tina told The Sun that she believed using a defibrillator, a portable device that helps electrically reestablish heartbeats to someone in cardiac arrest, could have saved London's life in a timely manner.
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To meet emissions requirements from California and other states, automakers need to sell more electrically powered vehicles, and those vehicles are often harder to hear at lower speeds than gasoline-powered engines.
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The Heat Flow probe, developed by DLR and Polish engineering company Astronika, is equipped with a penetrometer—an autonomous, electrically powered hammer that drives itself deeper into the ground with each pulse.
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A conviction there was overturned last month because the judge had ordered the defendant to be electrically shocked by a device on his ankle three times during his trial, court documents show.
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The blood-brain barrier is an almost impenetrable layer of cells that make up the brain capillaries that prevent many foreign chemicals from entering the brain, particularly if they are electrically charged.
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Delphi Automotive shares jumped 9.3 percent after the company said it plans to spin off operations tied to internal combustion engines and focus on technology for electrically powered and self-driving vehicles.
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"What is interpreted as a heartbeat in these bills is actually electrically induced flickering of a portion of the fetal tissue that will become the heart as the embryo develops," he said.
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One of the most promising and radical ideas is FUELEAP, a new kind of fuel cell that would electrically power general aviation aircraft (basically all non-scheduled planes, from gliders to personal jets).
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The new research from scientists in Sweden and the United States demonstrates a clear difference between the particles in the Northern and Southern parts of the planet's ionosphere, its electrically charged upper layer.
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The bike will sprint from 0 to 60 mph in under 3.5 seconds, and because its electrically powered, it requires no clutch and no gear shifting, making it much simpler for new riders.
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Travel magazine All About Lapland posted on its Facebook page video of the stunning natural light show, the result of collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere.
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Lamps made in 2015 in the form of partly peeled bananas, the skins in bronze and the inner fruit made of electrically illuminated glass, are funny in an uncomplicated way and seductively sensuous.
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All that will be generated electrically, and according to the tracks, according to the races, if you are in tow, and all sorts of parameters that we cannot know about at the moment.
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No voyeuristic detachment is allowed in this "Carmen Jones," which has been electrically choreographed by Bill T. Jones; the audience feels what the characters feel, on the rutted road to a harrowing catharsis.
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And so that was everything from the amount of power to the type of frame to the range to the type of wheels to the throttle to making it incredibly durable — mechanically, electrically, environmentally.
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Alienware admits it doesn't know whether future chips from Nvidia and AMD will actually fit onto its modular boards, but it says it's committed to making them fit if it's physically and electrically possible.
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The idea of Pium is that you buy proprietary oil pods that have information "electrically coded" inside, so the device automatically recognizes the scent and accounts for it through Pium's companion iOS / Android app.
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In a second experiment with similar results, rats were given a juiced-up version of PEG that uses graphene nanoribbons—an electrically conductive material—that serves as a scaffold along which neurons can grow.
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Travel magazine All About Lapland posted on its Instagram page video clips of the stunning natural light shows, the result of collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere.
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This new material is "transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable material that can be electrically activated and could be used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots," according to a blog post from UC Riverside.
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Well, it's a large drone, essentially, and because it's electrically operated you have far fewer number of parts than you do in internal combustion engines, so your rate of engine failure is much lower.
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But these are inadequate to keep pace with the funding ambitions of the federal, state, and local governments, which encourage fuel economy and even the use of electrically powered vehicles, which use no fuel.
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An Electrically Powered Future Electrical airplanes are sure to change the look of aviation, but if humans plan to continue to fly in the future we'll have to embrace this new era of flight.
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The electrically powered PAV, or "personal air vehicle," will have the capability of carrying up to four passengers on trips of up to 60 miles at speeds reaching 180 mph, the partners said Monday.
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They would be protected as they landed by a second fleet of "gunship" helicopters with electrically controlled, rapid-firing machine guns and pods of air-to-ground 2875 inch rockets attached to the sides.
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A new world of possibilities opened in 2008, however, when researchers learned how to create cerebral organoids—tiny blobs grown from human stem cells that self-organize into brainlike structures with electrically active neurons.
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Let's let Audi explain itself here: Instead of conventional low beams and high beams, the Audi AI:TRAIL is equipped with a total of five rotorless, triangular, electrically operated drones with integrated matrix LED elements.
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Professor Sun Jian and his colleagues at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Liaoning, shot a copper target with a jet of hot, electrically charged argon gas.
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Under the draft law, animals like Sheep and poultry will have to be stunned electrically before being killed, which most animal rights campaigners say is more humane than the Islamic halal and Jewish kosher rituals.
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And another old fantasy, flying cars, seems likely to become real in the next few years, as firms both new and old rush to build electrically propelled one- and two-seater aircraft of novel design.
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Like Blackfly, most of the new designs derive their motive power from arrays of electrically driven propellers, an arrangement pioneered by the small, "multicopter" drones that took to the air a decade or so ago.
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The device, surgically implanted directly into the brain, mimics the function of a structure called the hippocampus by electrically stimulating the brain in a particular way to form memories—at least in rats and monkeys.
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But when the researchers took another look at the light particles coming off of the hydrogen atoms in the remnant's gas, they realized the gas wasn't nearly as electrically charged as it should have been.
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Avoid driving or walking through floodwaters, which can be electrically charged from downed and underground power lines; contain debris like glass, dead animals or even venomous snakes; or be contaminated with sewage and hazardous chemicals.
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In his neatly made abstractions nothing stays fixed: lines appear to vibrate, waver, rotate and undulate; color glows and throbs as if electrically generated; hovering, gridded squares seem to fade in and out of visibility.
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Avoid driving or walking through floodwaters, which can be electrically charged from downed and underground power lines; contain debris like glass, dead animals or even poisonous snakes; or be contaminated with sewage and hazardous chemicals.
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The electrically powered PAV, or "personal air vehicle," is designed for a cruising speed up to 180 miles per hour, a cruising altitude of around 1,000 to 2,000 feet, and trips up to 5003 miles.
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Instead of the proposed leak-detection system, the company was now planning to replace an older gas-fired compressor with an electrically powered unit, reducing volatile organic compound emissions by about 5 tons a year.
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With the addition of the Solar Orbiter, this suite of new observatories could help scientists better protect Earth's satellites, power grids, and global communications from the violent surges of electrically charged particles the sun spews out.
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Nerve signals are carried by the movement of ions (electrically charged atoms), so the team were able to measure connection-strength by monitoring the flow of ions at the junctions between nerve cells in this region.
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Their suggestions included: cocaine (without elaborating), electrically shocking yourself while sniffing something to associate the two memories, or even having sex while smelling wine (which, notes Bosker, seems like an invitation to cover yourself in Chablis).
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The acquisition, the first under Chief Executive Peter Voser, is intended to boost ABB's presence in the fast-growing Chinese electric vehicle market, and strengthen the company's relations with makers of electrically-powered trucks and cars.
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Because quartz vibrates millions of times per second when electrically stimulated, and watches use vibrating bodies to keep time, NASA was able to establish a stable time base off which all mission times could be derived.
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It doesn't stream anything without the wake word and it has a physical mute button that electrically disconnects the microphone but, as with all groundbreaking technology, there is no doubt we are entering new territory here.
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The electrically-charged and playful mural is the work of David Guinn, a Philadelphia-based artist who originally studied architecture and transitioned into murals in the early 2000s, traveling the US and creating his striking displays.
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Volocopter is developing electrically powered air taxis that can take off and land vertically, enabling passengers in the mega-cities of the future to dodge traffic jams on the streets and so reach their destinations quickly.
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This involved refracting radio waves from the Earth's ionosphere—an upper layer of the atmosphere with a high concentration of electrically charged atoms—in order make contact with its units on the other side of the world.
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Unlike similar autonomous transport systems currently in use, such as the Rotterdam Rivium bus or Heathrow airport shuttles, these electrically powered vehicles won't run on dedicated tracks, instead rolling on the same roadways used by human drivers.
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Dogs sit on any piece of furniture they choose, and half of the house is designated "dog quarters," with toddler beds -- designed for young children but perfect for slow-moving dogs -- arranged around an electrically heated fireplace.
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Levin speculates that in the future, we may not need to micromanage multitudes of cell-signaling events; instead, we may be able to manipulate how cells communicate with each other electrically and let them fix various problems.
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The Maryland team examined a group of neuronal ion channels (proteins which allow ions, or electrically charged atoms, to move across a cell), known as BK potassium channels, within the suprachiasmatic nuclei of a number of mice.
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The high voltage strips molecules in the air of their electrons, and creates what's called a corona discharge, pouring down these electrically charged particles, or ions, like water from a fountain, onto the surface of the oil.
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But duty calls, and Black Lightning has to put on his hero cape once again, carrying with him electrically charged superpowers that energize this show, particularly for those viewers whose own identities have been traditionally underrepresented onscreen.
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Dr Ong's invention is a type of mass spectrometer—a device that, by measuring the flight time of ions (electrically charged molecules) in an electric field, is able to work out their mass and therefore their probable composition.
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By carefully coordinating operations on a computer's processor cores to create certain frequencies of electrical signals, their malware can electrically generate a pattern of magnetic forces powerful enough to carry a small stream of information to nearby devices.
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"[O]ver the next ten years we will focus on a drive mix consisting of even further optimized petrol engines, plug-in hybrid models, and purely electrically operated sports cars," Oliver Blume, Porsche's chairman, said in a statement.
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It's all part of a plan to study how particles move in the upper atmosphere, which could help us better study the aurorae and the parts of our atmosphere that are electrically charged by solar and cosmic radiation.
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The purpose of this admittedly suspicious-sounding activity was not to deliver mind-control agents into our air supply, but rather, to track the motions of particles in the electrically-charged portion of our atmosphere called the ionosphere.
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"Space weather above our heads interacts with the electrically conducting solid Earth beneath our feet to affect infrastructure at the surface of the Earth," Jeffrey Love, USGS Advisor for Geomagnetic Research at the USGS Geomagnetism Program, told Gizmodo.
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In addition, the MSO Carbon Series LT is fitted with a gloss finished carbon fibre electrically retractable roof and tonneau, A-pillars, bonnet and rear deck, side blades, complete front and rear wings, and even fuel filler flap.
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Those colors can end up electrically bright, as in "cfaal 2306" (2019), or strangely muted, as in "cfaal 2269" (2019); in either case, the palette feels retro, in contrast to imagery that conjures visions of sci-fi portals.
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It also married with a special case that slipped into the space left by the thin part of the screen and connected both magnetically and electrically to the Kindle Oasis to add another four weeks of battery life.
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Some also warn that the wall, which is electrically powered, may prove as vulnerable to natural disasters as the plant itself, which lost the ability to cool its reactors after the 213-foot tsunami caused a blackout there.
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"The primary purpose for our investigation is to map the magnetic field of Jupiter very accurately and try to understand how it's generated in Jupiter's electrically conducting core," said Jack Connerney, the co-investigator of the MAG instrument.
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According to new research published Monday in Nature Geoscience, tiny non-silicate particles on the moon's surface could become electrically charged by frictional energy generated by collisions with each other at wind speeds surpassing 15 miles per hour.
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But as this NASA essay shows, thundersnow booms through a mechanism that appears to be similar to what causes thunder in conventional storms: electrically charged particles circulating in the cloud and building up static until something goes BOOM.
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Its slick website — black and white portraits of men, many of whom have the requisite millennial beard — touts a finding from psychology researchers that most men would rather be electrically shocked than be left alone with their thoughts.
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As a result, we became the bobbleheads of the animal kingdom, with craniums spacious enough to accommodate trillions of brain cells: 100 billion electrically active neurons and 563 to 50 times as many supporting cells, known as glia.
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Image: AEMThis bit of information is crucially important because it will determine whether or not the medical staff can electrically cardiovert the patient to alleviate the arrhythmia (a cardioversion uses electricity to reset the heart rate back to normal).
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A final team, led by M. Serra-Ricart from the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands in Spain, will look at the effects of the eclipse on the ionosphere, the electrically charged outer layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
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The stalling caused a complete loss of power in some cases, shutting off the engine and power to the electrically-assisted steering and brakes, making it extremely difficult for a driver to guide the car safely to a stop.
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The challengers were a late-model Mercedes-Benz and a 2016 BMW 535i equipped with the company's technology — an electrically powered hydraulic device meant to complement the venerable shock absorber and keep the passenger compartment as level as possible.
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Developed over the last two years and tested at the company's facility in Mirabel, Quebec, the "electrically distributed anti-torque" system, or EDAT for short, resembles a quadcopter drone set vertically inside the Bell 429 helicopter's rear vertical fin.
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This is because, in Mayman's opinion, "current battery energy density is just too low for most electrically powered VTOLs to be truly practical," and that timelines optimistically for that to change are in the five to 10-year range.
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The ALMDS pod is mechanically attached to the MH-60S with a standard Bomb Rack Unit 14 mount and electrically via a primary and auxiliary umbilical cable to the operator console, according to a statement from the systems maker, Northrop Grumman.
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Instead, they can find the "electrically induced flickering of a portion of the fetal tissue that will become the heart," Ted Anderson, president of the 58,000-member-strong American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), told the Guardian earlier this year.
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There are several different types of recreational trailers to consider, as outlined below: Folding or Pop-Up Trailers Sitting only about 4 feet high when towed, pop-up trailers are raised (by hand crank or electrically) when at the camp site.
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For a few years, Axon attempted to market something called the XREP — a shotgun that fired an electrically charged projectile as far as 100 feet and then doled out a 20-second shock when it made contact with a target.
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UPS CEO David Abney on Silly Trike (Image: UPS)UPS announced yesterday that it has further succeeded in turning Portland, Oregon into a parody of itself by choosing it as the pilot city for its new "electrically-assisted tricycle" delivery system.
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The propellant itself is a substance known as an ionic liquid, that consists of positive and negative ions which can be separated by passing a current through the liquid and then, because they are electrically charged, accelerated by an electric field.
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To better understand this, the researchers built a simulation of Earth, in which the outer core is represented as a rotating spherical shell filled with an electrically conducting liquid, and the inner core and mantle as solids sandwiching the liquid later.
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Sato and his team are turning live beetles into cyborgs by electrically controlling their motor functions Having studied the beetles' muscle configuration, neural networks, and leg control, the researchers wired the insects so that they could be controlled by a switchboard.
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Designed and engineered using the research on electric flavoring at the University of Tokyo's Rekimoto Lab, the battery-powered fork features a conductive handle that completes a circuit when the tines make contact with a diner's tongue, electrically stimulating their taste buds.
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To start the process, the vaporisation surface had to be warmed to its operating temperature by a gas burner (this would be done electrically in an operational model), but once the system was up and running, vaporisation and combustion became self sustaining.
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According to NASA, Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument "detected the hits of hundreds of ring particles per second" vaporizing into electrically-excited gas when it was just outside Saturn's main rings, but within the gap, it detected very few.
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A project called Cirquids from designer Dorothee Clasen has a new spin on circuitry, using paper, wax, and the electrically conductive properties of salt water to create temporary circuit boards from nothing more then simple ingredients you probably already have around your house.
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"In the case of Project 804 we're basically taking a commuter regional turboprop airplane and we're making it such that during take-off and climb, about half the energy is supplied electrically and about half of the supply is maintained by the engine," he said.
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The "robot" is in fact a few sheets of metal you touch that measures your galvanic skin response—basically the change in how electrically conductive your skin is—and a robotic hand, controlled by an Arduino board, that swipes left or right on Tinder accordingly.
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With their octagonal metal frames, bold hands and crisp white dials marked with dots and deltoids rather than numbers, the 78 electrically powered timepieces bore the cross from the city's coat of arms and the word Normalzeit, or standard time, which became their nickname.
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Electrically charged droplets of sulfuric acid circulate through the suffocating clouds, while a phenomenon called super-rotation whips the upper atmosphere into a vicious global hurricane that sweeps around the planet every four Earth days, with winds of 400 kilometers (250 miles) per hour.
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But after surgically placing an electrode implant into the brain, the team was able to electrically stimulate the portions of the brain that controlled sensation, allowing the patient to feel the size, shape and texture of objects and to tell when a finger was touched.
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As detailed in a paper published last week in Physical Review Letters, researchers affiliated with the Department of Energy and the University of California Berkeley used a supercomputer at the DoE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to simulate the jets of plasma, an electrically charged gas-like substance.
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These seemingly unrelated observations led to the theory that the electrically charged particles from Saturn's rings were flowing down along magnetic field lines—a process that resulted in water being dumped from its rings onto its ionosphere, creating the narrow bands seen in the Voyager images.
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Previous missions like Voyager may have missed much of the lightning because they were orbiting the gas giant inside of the Io plasma torus, a noisy ring of electrically charged particles around Jupiter, said Bill Kurth, University of Iowa physicist who helped discover whistlers with Voyager.
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"What is interpreted as a heartbeat in these bills is actually electrically induced flickering of a portion of the fetal tissue that will become the heart as the embryo develops," Ted Anderson, president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said to the Guardian this week.
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Russian arms manufacturer Rostec alsoannounceda breakthrough in camouflage technology last year, claiming that their new "electrically-controllable material" could instantly change color based on the environment it was in, providing Russian troops and even vehicles with the most advanced and effective camouflage ever seen on the battlefield.
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We redesigned both the hardware and software architecture that controls the display through a completely new display controller that changes how the display itself is electrically controlled, down to the voltages and electrical currents applied in complex waveforms to each individual pixel, millions at a time.
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Musk's stated end goal is to build a vast network of tunnels zipping with electrically powered sleds carrying both passenger cars and possibly some form of small people mover at 125 miles per hour, in theory diverting some of L.A.'s infamous gridlock into a faster secondary transportation grid.
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It's not demure, and not everyone will feel at ease commuting the kids to school in it — but those who do, those who are happy to have the other kids talking about the cool parents with the electrically powered sports car, they'll love this new variant from BMW.
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For instance, rather than forking out $2670 million to $6 million to drill and frack a new well, a producer can spend just $250,000-$500,000 to reinvigorate an older well with artificial lift - which may involve injecting chemicals or gas into perforations, or using an electrically driven pumping system.
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Though it may sound outlandish and incredibly dangerous, Ćirković speculates that an advanced posthuman or extraterrestrial civilization will be able to create a mini black hole in the lab, feed it matter in a controlled manner, and then charge it electrically so that it can be maneuvered with strong electric fields.
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A team from the University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) led by Monroe used 53 electrically charged atoms as their qubits and applied a force via a laser so the atoms either align with others nearby to create a magnet or point in random directions.
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" Lyndsey also asks reporters not to bring recording devices, explaining, "I can record the interview using my own technology (this is to avoid dictaphones, mobile phones, etc.)—a special microphone on a long cable attached to our laptop in the next room (the microphone is an electrically passive fibre-optic mic).
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Fefu, so real and electrically idiosyncratic that she might at any moment up and leave the theatre, stroll down Fulton Street, and start apartment hunting in Fort Greene, has invited a group of women to her house so that they can run through the program of an upcoming educational fund-raiser.
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At the show's center — standing in for Forster's temperamentally opposite sisters, Margaret and Helen Schlegel — are the serious, self-doubting social activist Eric Glass (Kyle Soller, a poignant anchoring presence) and his flamboyant playwright boyfriend, Toby Darling, who has a Hidden Past he pretends never happened (an electrically vivid Andrew Burnap).
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