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Researchers demonstrate acoustic levitation of a large sphere 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 16, 2016
Scientists have discovered how to levitate small objects with an acoustic field, sound waves able to defy gravity.

By David Aragorn
PROPELLANT-LESS ENGINE TESTED BY NASA 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 12, 2016
The team reported measurements of non-conventional thrust produced by a device that uses the effects of microwaves passing through a uniquely structured waveguide. Thrust with no propellant!

By Around the Web Editor
3D-Printed Polymer Turns Methane to Methanol 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 12, 2016
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have combined biology and 3D printing to create the first reactor that can continuously produce methanol from methane at room temperature and pressure.

By David Aragorn
Photonic hypercrystals drastically enhance light emission in 2D materials 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 10, 2016
Researchers have developed a method for achieving an order-of-magnitude enhancement of the light emission from a class of two-dimensional (2D) materials called transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).

By David Aragorn
“Beyond the God Particle” –China to Trump CERN’s LHC: Twice the Size and Seven Times as Powerful 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 7, 2016
China is planning to build an enormous particle accelerator twice the size and seven times as powerful as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, according to state media reports.

By David Aragorn
Fleet of robots could hunt for life on icy moon Enceladus 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- August 5, 2016
Delicate space nets. Probes landing with the force of a bomb. Ice-burrowing tunnellers. These are a few of the robots poised to grab the baton from NASA’s Cassini orbiter in the search for alien life on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.

By David Aragorn
Mind-Altering Quantum Experiment Shows Time Has Never Existed As We Think It Does 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 3, 2016
Time as we measure it and know it, doesn’t really exist.

By David Aragorn
Most Americans Are Still Wary Of Becoming Superhumans 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 3, 2016
Gene editing, brain implants, and synthetic blood transfusions all raise concerns in a new poll

By David Aragorn
Quantum leap in quest for digital speed and security 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 2, 2016
Society’s increasing reliance on the internet, computers and mobile phones puts stringent demands on technological developments. Shrinking the electronic components – in other words, increasing the number of transistors on a single chip – is not an easy task as current components are already reaching atom-like sizes.

By David Aragorn
Experimentation suggests Vikings could have used sunstone to navigate 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 1, 2016
A team of researchers from several institutions in Hungary has conducted experiments meant to test the possibility that the Vikings actually did use sunstones to navigate.

By David Aragorn