An Improved Version Of Uranium Hydrides Could Be Superconducting At Room Temperature

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 … Read more

Journey Of SpaceX

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 … Read more

This Space Age-Looking Flying Car Actually Flies

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 … Read more

A New Class Of Propeller Shaped Nanorobots That Can Swim Through The Eyeball’s Dense Tissue

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 … Read more

Nuclear Knots Might Have The Keys To Unlock The Mysteries Of Atoms

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. … Read more

A New Way To Combine Pneumatics With A Hydrogel To Create A Baromorph For Soft Robotics Applications

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 … Read more

Flexible And Foldable Supercapacitors For Energy Storage

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 … Read more

Customizing Supercontinuum Generation Via On-Chip Adaptive Temporal Pulse-Splitting

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 … Read more

Study Suggests Mars Moon May Have Got Its Grooves From Rolling Stones

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 … Read more

Scientists Have Grown ‘Mini Brains’

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 … Read more