Science & Technology

‘Remarkably flavourful’ lab-grown poultry 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 25, 2017
Artificial meat firm now racing to drive down costs with an eye on consumer sales by 2021

By David Aragorn
Here’s how ‘invisible armor’ could defeat bullets and blades 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 24, 2017
The NRL-developed transparent polymer armor consists of alternating layers of elastomeric polymer and a harder material substrate. Very small crystalline domains, which also provide rigidity, give the polymer its transparency.

By David Aragorn
Dime-Size Thrusters Could Propel Satellites, Spacecraft 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 24, 2017
A new propulsion engine with dime-size thrusters could be used to propel a host of spacecraft, from small satellites to crewed ships designed for interplanetary exploration.

By David Aragorn
Scientists evade the Heisenberg uncertainty principle 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 24, 2017
Researchers report the discovery of a new technique that could drastically improve the sensitivity of instruments such as magnetic resonance imagers (MRIs) and atomic clocks. The study reports a technique to bypass the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. This technique hides quantum uncertainty in atomic features not seen by the instrument, allowing the scientists to make very high precision measurements.

By David Aragorn
Walking With Venus’ Wind 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 22, 2017
The hellishly hot planet fries spacecraft electronics, so NASA scientists devised a machine inspired by ancient technology.

By David Aragorn
Chinese scientists use remote sensing technology to detect underground Great Wall remains 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 22, 2017
More than 1,000 years ago, several dotted, flake-shaped sections of the Great Wall stood in Xinjiang, protecting the border and the trade road.

By David Aragorn
An almost impossible engineering project lets us time travel to the start of the universe 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 21, 2017
Time travel is possible, in a way.

By David Aragorn
Wearable/disposable sweat-based glucose monitoring device with multistage transdermal drug delivery module 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 16, 2017
Electrochemical analysis of sweat using soft bioelectronics on human skin provides a new route for noninvasive glucose monitoring without painful blood collection.

By David Aragorn
New Space Weather Model Helps Simulate Magnetic Structure of Solar Storms 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 16, 2017
The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth – the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through – can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the sun, which spew giant clouds of magnetic energy and plasma, a hot gas of electrically charged particles, out into space. The magnetic field of these solar eruptions are difficult to predict and can interact with Earth’s magnetic fields, causing space weather effects.

By David Aragorn
The Future Tire? It’s Spherical, Connected and Self-Repairing!0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- March 15, 2017
Goodyear has revealed its long-term vision for future smart, connected tires.

By David Aragorn