Science & Technology

Researchers use lasers to weld spider silk to kevlar 0
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- August 26, 2017
The silk proteins themselves are involved in locally increasing the laser power.

By David Aragorn
Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight into useful compounds 0
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- August 24, 2017
Photosynthesis provides energy for the vast majority of life on Earth. But chlorophyll, the green pigment that plants use to harvest sunlight, is relatively inefficient. To enable humans to capture more of the sun’s energy than natural photosynthesis can, scientists have taught bacteria to cover themselves in tiny, highly efficient solar panels to produce useful compounds.

By David Aragorn
Superconductivity research reveals potential new state of matter 0
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- August 24, 2017
Common phenomenon could be key to understanding mechanism of unconventional superconductivity

By David Aragorn
Solar eclipse science: how the motions of the heavens affect events on Earth 0
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- August 22, 2017
A total solar eclipse has always had the power to fascinate humans and affect the actions, purses, thoughts and knowledge of humans all over the world

By David Aragorn
Life After Death? –Physicists Says “It’s Quantum Information that Transcends from One World to Another”0
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- August 19, 2017
While scientists are still in heated debates about what exactly consciousness is, the University of Arizona’s Stuart Hameroff and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose conclude that it is information stored at a quantum level. Penrose agrees –he and his team have found evidence that “protein-based microtubules—a structural component of human cells—carry quantum information— information stored at a sub-atomic level.”

By David Aragorn
Behind the Hype of ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat 0
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- August 18, 2017
Some folks have big plans for your future. They want you—a burger-eatin’, chicken-finger-dippin’ American—to buy their burgers and nuggets grown from stem cells. One day, meat eaters and vegans might even share their hypothetical burger. That burger will be delicious, environmentally friendly, and be indistinguishable from a regular burger. And they assure you the meat will be real meat, just not ground from slaughtered animals.

By David Aragorn
This Augmented Reality Helmet Helps Firefighters See Through Smoke to Save Lives 0
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- August 17, 2017
Qwake Tech’s augmented reality system, C-Thru, is built into a futuristic helmet and relies on a thermal imaging camera, toxicity sensors, edge detection, and an AR display to cut through smoke with useful visuals. It might have been born in a volcano, but Qwake Tech thinks the system has wider applications in disaster situations, such as a burning building.

By David Aragorn
Dutch students grow their own biodegradable car 0
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- August 16, 2017
What’s made of sugar, can carry four people and travel at 50 miles (80 km) per hour? A biodegradable car, whose inventors say could be the next step in environmentally friendly motoring.

By David Aragorn
Scientists closer to explaining why matter persists over antimatter 0
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- August 15, 2017
New results show a difference in the way neutrinos and antineutrinos behave, which could help explain why there is so much matter in the universe.

By David Aragorn
You can’t get entangled without a wormhole: Physicist finds entanglement instantly gives rise to a wormhole 0
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- August 15, 2017
Quantum entanglement is one of the more bizarre theories to come out of the study of quantum mechanics — so strange, in fact, that Albert Einstein famously referred to it as “spooky action at a distance.”

By David Aragorn