Gil Caparas
320 posts
SpaceX Launches Historic Inspiration4 Mission
(To donate to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, feel free to visit the St. Jude page dedicated to…
September 18, 2021
Perovskite Crystals Go From Solar Cells to Radiation Detectors
This might be the first time you’ve probably heard of perovskite, but you’ve most likely already seen it…
September 17, 2021
New Wooden “Nanogenerator” Floorings Create Power With Every Step
The race for developing “smart” technology for our everyday items has been ongoing for decades now, with ideas…
September 16, 2021
9,000-Year-Old Evidence For Beer Brewing Found in China
An archaeological dig at Qiaotou, a town in the Zhejiang province of China, yielded a couple of clay…
September 15, 2021
Diabetic Skin Ulcers Find Treatment With Hydrogels
Individuals who are diagnosed with diabetes have high blood sugar levels; this can impair blood circulation and accelerate…
September 15, 2021
Chlorine-Based Rechargeable Battery Holds Six Times the Charge of Lithium-Ion
The rechargeable batteries you have on your smartphone right now is primarily thanks to the concept of reversible…
September 14, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope Finally Nears Its Fateful Launch
Since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope back in 1990, scientists have long been in discussions over…
September 14, 2021
A Billion Years Are Missing from Grand Canyon Rock—And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Travelers to the United States of America, or even those aspiring to travel there one day, will most…
September 13, 2021
A Filipino Indigenous Population May Possess the Most Denisovan Ancestry
Since their discovery just a few decades ago, the Denisovans have become a subject of heated discussion and…
September 10, 2021
Astronomers Found a 3,000-Light-Year-Long “Splinter” in a Milky Way “Arm”
It has taken centuries for our understanding about our place in the universe to reach this point of…
September 10, 2021