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Jun 22, 2017
3D-Printed Chair Made From One Piece of Plastic
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, materials
Jun 22, 2017
Reefboard makes snorkeling more accessible
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Jun 22, 2017
Scientists Demonstrate “Liquid Light” at Room Temperature for the First Time
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: nanotechnology, quantum physics
Researchers from Italy and Canada have made liquid light at room temperatures for the first time. The work paves the way for studying quantum hydrodynamics further and for future applications of this new type of matter in electronics devices.
Thanks to technological advances, scientists now have various ways of manipulating matter. Often times, these result in discovering new types of matter that posses unique properties — like the famous metallic hydrogen and the bizarre time crystal. The discovery of such materials leads to a wide range of potential applications in electronics. One of these is the so-called “liquid light,” a strange matter which researchers from the CNR NANOTECH Institute of Nanotechnology in Italy and the Polytechnique Montréal in Canada recently formed at room temperature for the first time.
Jun 22, 2017
The End of Car Ownership
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Ride sharing and self-driving vehicles will redefine our relationship with cars. Auto makers and startups are already gearing up for the change.
Jun 22, 2017
The Future Of Eyelashes Is Here with Interactive LED Eyelashes
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
These eyelashes light up and change their patterns when you move around. Send to your extra AF friend who would definitely wear these.
For more info check out: http://flashes.se/
Jun 21, 2017
World’s First Three-Parent Baby Born Using Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy
Posted by Yugal Agrawal in category: biotech/medical
Doctors have successfully created worlds first three-parent baby using Pronuclear transfer technique used in mitochondrial replacement therapy.
Jun 21, 2017
Fattened, Genetically Engineered Algae Might Fuel the Future
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: energy, genetics
Jun 21, 2017
NASA Wants to Collect Solar Power Directly From Space
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: military, solar power, space travel, sustainability
Space-based solar power has had a slow start, but the technology may finally take off in the next few decades. Since its inception, solar power has had a severe limitation as a renewable energy: it only works when the Sun is shining. This has restricted the areas where solar panels can be effectively used to sunnier, drier regions, such as California and Arizona. And even on cloudless days, the atmosphere itself absorbs some of the energy emitted by the Sun, cutting back the efficiency of solar energy. And let’s not forget that, even in the best of circumstances, Earth-bound solar panels are pointed away from the Sun half of the time, during the night.
So, for over half a decade, researchers from NASA and the Pentagon have dreamed of ways for solar panels to rise above these difficulties, and have come up with some plausible solutions. There have been several proposals for making extra-atmospheric solar panels a reality, many of which call for a spacecraft equipped with an array of mirrors to reflect sunlight into a power-conversion device. The collected energy could be beamed to Earth via a laser or microwave emitter. There are even ways to modulate the waves’ energy to protect any birds or planes that might wander into the beam’s path.
The energy from these space-based solar panels would not be limited by clouds, the atmosphere, or our night cycle. Additionally, because solar energy would be continuously absorbed, there would be no reason to store the energy for later use, a process which can cost up to 50 percent of the energy stored.
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