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It took nearly 6,400 years to go from the simple wheel to the first automobile, but only two decades from the first car to roll off the assembly line to the first aircraft to take to the skies. Such rapid developments in quality of life can only be attributed to the human spirit, an unstoppable force always in pursuit of improvement. Join Modern Sciences in celebrating the spirit of human ingenuity through its engineering feats.
Carbon capture and storage: how to remove all CO₂ emissions everywhere all at once
Benjamin Clapp/Shutterstock José Luis Rodríguez Gallego, Universidad de Oviedo It is increasingly likely that we will not reach…
Nose-to-tail mining: how making sand from ore could solve a looming crisis
Thanagornsoisep/Shutterstock Daniel Franks, The University of Queensland Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand,…
Supersonic passenger aircraft may be returning – here’s what that would mean for the climate
Kshitij Sabnis, Queen Mary University of London The US aerospace company Boom Supersonic recently announced it has successfully…
Switching to electric vehicles will push the power grid to the brink
AdamEdwards / shutterstock Florimond Gueniat, Birmingham City University The UK’s pledge to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 hinges…
The Final Challenge to Our Nuclear Future
Fusion energy is nearing feasibility as major technological challenges have been addressed. The remaining hurdle is the construction…
Humans generate 62 million tonnes of e-waste each year. Here’s what happens when it’s recycled
Huguette Roe/Shutterstock Sukhbir Sandhu, University of South Australia In 2022, humans generated roughly 62 million tonnes of electronic…
How satellites revolutionised climate change science
aappp / shutterstock Will de Freitas, The Conversation Until relatively recently, humans were limited by the horizon. Climate…
Sofas that self-assemble when you heat them up? How 4D printing could transform manufacturing
Flat-pack, but not as we know it. This is an AI image created by OpenAI’s Dall-E., CC BY-SA…
New LiDAR System Captures High-Resolution 3D Images from 1 Kilometer Away
At a Glance Scientists have developed a cutting-edge LiDAR system capable of capturing high-resolution 3D images up to…
Metal expands when heated. What does that mean for railroads?
Hans Goldschmidt discovered that metal oxides, such as rust, react with aluminum powder to produce pure liquid metal,…