Science & Technology

Famous Einstein equation used to create matter from light for first time 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 18, 2021
Two colliding light particles were used to create a matter-antimatter pair

By David Aragorn
WIRES ABOVE QUBITS SEE UNSW RESEARCHERS TAKE QUANTUM CONTROL STEP 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 18, 2021
Scientists on the College of New South Wales (UNSW) have devised a brand new placement of management wiring that they hope will scale as much as controlling tens of millions of qubits.

By David Aragorn
Physicists Detect Strongest Evidence Yet of Matter Generated by Collisions of Light 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 10, 2021
According to theory, if you smash two photons together hard enough, you can generate matter: an electron-positron pair, the conversion of light to mass as per Einstein’s theory of special relativity.

By David Aragorn
New Graphene Amplifier Unleashes New Frequencies in Electromagnetic Spectrum 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 9, 2021
A new graphene amplifying device unleashes energy hidden in low wavelengths, and will revolutionize medical technology.

By David Aragorn
UFOs and the Boundaries of Science 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, UFO News
- August 7, 2021
On June 25 of this year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a brief report entitled “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”

By David Aragorn
UFO or Iron Man? Mystery jetpack user spotted flying near L.A. airport 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- August 2, 2021
Iron Man might be dead in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but he appears to be very much alive in the real-world vicinity of the Los Angeles International Airport, where pilots have reported seeing a sky-high individual with a jetpack.

By David Aragorn
The US military wants force fields that could stop nuclear missiles 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 30, 2021
Force fields are the stuff of science fiction, but directed energy systems to fry drones, or stop people, already exist. Here’s what’s real about the tech—and what’s more fantastical.

By David Aragorn
Watch Cassie the bipedal robot run a 5K 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 29, 2021
And it did so on its own without a tether.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Observed a Brainless Blob Thinking and Making Decisions 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2021
The slime mold Physarum uses mechanical signals to probe environments that it hasn’t directly explored yet.

By David Aragorn
Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics? My research takes us a step closer to finding out 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- July 27, 2021
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, physicist Roger Penrose teamed up with anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to propose an ambitious answer.

By David Aragorn