A Strange, Meat-Eating Sea Sponge in the Deep Ocean
Sort of an under water Venus Fly Trap? The harp sponge (Chondrocladia lyra) can indeed be likened to an underwater Venus flytrap due to its...
Author : Mitch Riller
Video: NASA: How Tractor Beams (May) Work
A working tractor beam? In science fiction the idea of a tractor beam, an invisible or at least non-physical energy-based attractive connection, is used as...
Organism With No Brain Creates External Memories for Navigation
A particular slime mould, Physarum polycephalum (the “many-headed slime”), that has shown promise in mapping ideal routes to minimize energy, and this ability has...
Solar Cell Consisting of a Single Molecule
A solar cell consisting of a single molecule was developed in 2012 by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a significant advancement in...
U of Minnesota Engineers Invent Device to Increase Internet Speeds
About eight years ago in the year 2012, a team of scientists and engineers at the University of Minnesota developed a groundbreaking microscale optical device...
Update on Self-Driving Cars in California
In 2024, California remains at the forefront of self-driving car technology, with significant advancements in the number of autonomous vehicles (AVs), their safety records, and...
The Rise and Fall of the France-Wide Web
France’s Minitel service, once a pioneering force in digital communication, officially shut down on June 30, 2012, marking the end of a remarkable three-decade journey....
New Ultracapacitor Recharges in Under a Millisecond
Breakthrough in Ultracapacitor Technology: Microsecond Charging Now Possible A groundbreaking ultracapacitor design, also known as an electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC), was unveiled in the journal...
Reverse Combustion: Can CO2 Be Turned Back into Fuel?
From Waste to Fuel: Transforming CO2 into Sustainable Energy The concept of converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuel, once a fringe idea, has evolved into...
Laws of Physics May Change Across the Universe
New findings bolster the hypothesis that our region of the universe is uniquely suited for life. This controversial evidence suggests that one of nature’s...