Month: November 2018

A superconductor is a material that electricity can flow through without losing energy along the way. It’s a material with no resistance, it doesn’t diminish an electric current as the current passes through it. The microscopic structure of a superconductor is like an open highway, letting electrons travel through the material with ease. That means… Continue reading An Improved Version Of Uranium Hydrides Could Be Superconducting At Room Temperature

You may have heard that facing your fears is the best way to conquer them. As it turns out, this is actually pretty scientific advice and is the basis for a technique called exposure therapy. This kind of therapy has been used in some form or another since the 1950s and it’s designed to help… Continue reading Facing Your Fears Can Help You Conquer Them, But How?

Data and data storage is in a never-ending arms race. The size and cost of memory shrinks while video and photo resolutions go up, and file sizes balloon. The end result is you just never seem to have enough room on your phone or laptop for all your stuff. But there’s a limit to how… Continue reading Here Is How We Could Store Data On A Single Atom

It was a historic moment when Elon Musk the billionaire founder of SpaceX and Tesla set to launch the biggest rocket in the world at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on 6th of February 2018.  This is a point in history that we don’t come too often. We’re in this amazing transition… Continue reading Journey Of SpaceX

Our scientific world is both expanding and getting more precise every day. We are pushing the boundaries of what we had ever thought possible, but that means the way we measure that science has to keep getting more precise too. Are we ever going to hit the limit of what we can see and therefore… Continue reading We Have Just Invented The World’s Fastest Camera

The concept of the flying car has been a staple of gee-whiz Tomorrowland-style science fiction since the 1950s. But real-world incarnations of the idea have traditionally been rather underwhelming. The all-electric Lilium Jet just attracted $90 million in funding and differs from similar projects in that it’s already flying. Depending on how you define your… Continue reading This Space Age-Looking Flying Car Actually Flies

You know those little motes or floaters that you sometimes see moving in your vision? Well, someday very soon, those could be Nanorobots. An international team of medical researchers has unveiled a new class of medical nanobots that can “swim” through the thick vitreous tissue of the eyeball. The propeller-shaped robots are designed to deliver… Continue reading A New Class Of Propeller Shaped Nanorobots That Can Swim Through The Eyeball’s Dense Tissue

The rover is expected to launch in July 2020 and to land on Mars around February 18, 2021. It will seek out signs of past life in the sediments and sands of Jezero crater, which was once home to a 250-meter deep lake and a river delta that flowed into the lake. “This is a… Continue reading NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Will Hunt For Signs Of Ancient Life In What Used To Be A River Delta

In an aeroplane, The Aeroplane gets the thrust it needs to fly through the air either from a propeller or a jet engine. Both methods require moving parts a propeller spins and a jet engine has a fan inside. As a result, they are loud. But now aeronautics experts at MIT have flown a radically… Continue reading The Ion Drive Powered Aeroplane Flew For The First Time In The Air

A skyrmion is a tiny disturbance in a substance, a swirling pattern that, like a knot, is difficult to undo. In the 1960s, nuclear physicist Tony Skyrme suggested that these structures since named after him could represent protons and neutrons within a nucleus in theoretical calculations. But despite some initial promise, the idea hit snags.… Continue reading Nuclear Knots Might Have The Keys To Unlock The Mysteries Of Atoms

A small team of researchers at ESPCI Paris has come up with a way to combine pneumatics with a hydrogel to create a baromorph for soft robotics applications. A baromorph is a soft material that self-configures when inflated. In their paper published in the journal Nature Materials, the group describes their research and their geometric… Continue reading A New Way To Combine Pneumatics With A Hydrogel To Create A Baromorph For Soft Robotics Applications

A team of researchers from the Plasma Physics Research Centre, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, have discovered a way of making paper supercapacitors for electricity storage, according to a new study published in the journal Heliyon. At one sheet thick, these new supercapacitors can bend, fold, flex, and still… Continue reading Flexible And Foldable Supercapacitors For Energy Storage

Using machine-learning and an integrated photonic chip, researchers from INRS (Canada) and the University of Sussex (UK) can now customize the properties of broadband light sources. Also called “supercontinuum”, these sources are at the core of new imaging technologies and the approach proposed by the researchers will bring further insight into fundamental aspects of light-matter… Continue reading Customizing Supercontinuum Generation Via On-Chip Adaptive Temporal Pulse-Splitting

A new study bolsters the idea that strange grooves crisscrossing the surface of the Martian moon Phobos were made by rolling boulders blasted free from an ancient asteroid impact. The research, published in Planetary and Space Science, uses computer models to simulate the movement of debris from Stickney crater, a huge gash on one end… Continue reading Study Suggests Mars Moon May Have Got Its Grooves From Rolling Stones

For the first time, brain tissue grown in a lab has spontaneously exhibited electrical activity, and it looks startlingly similar to human brain activity. More specifically, it resembles the brain activity of premature babies. Now, the report of this startling development is yet to be peer-reviewed, but if confirmed, it could be a huge discovery… Continue reading Scientists Have Grown ‘Mini Brains’