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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.
Researchers Develop Chip-Sized Ultrafast Lasers for Portable Applications
In a recent research paper in Science, Dr. Qiushi Guo and team present a groundbreaking method for creating…
How Do You Make Wood Bulletproof?
Wood isn’t exactly known for its ability to protect whatever is behind it, but scientists still need to…
Australian school students are experimenting with ‘space veggies’ in a NASA initiative
Growing Beyond Earth Kim Johnson, La Trobe University A pink glow is shining on the faces of enthusiastic…
Wearable Devices with Vibrations Enhance Astronaut Training for Safer Spaceflight
A recent study by researchers at Brandeis University explored wearable devices that provide orientation cues through vibrations to…
What are roundabouts? A transportation engineer explains the safety benefits of these circular intersections
A large roundabout in China. Jiojio/Moment via Getty Images Deogratias Eustace, University of Dayton If you live on…
Argonne National Laboratory Sets New Record in Quantum Computing Coherence Time
In quantum computing, “coherence” is of utmost importance. Coherence refers to the ability of quantum bits, or qubits,…
3 powerful earthquakes strike Afghanistan in one week – here’s how people around the world prepare for disasters
Survivors search through rubble on Oct. 7, 2023, in western Afghanistan, where a series of powerful earthquakes have…
Starlink satellites are ‘leaking’ signals that interfere with our most sensitive radio telescopes
NOIRLab, CC BY Steven Tingay, Curtin University When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite…
Engineers Are Already Forming Metals Using Robots
For thousands of years, humans have anchored cultural advancement in terms of our collective level of shaping and…
We’ve Come So Close to Annihiliating Ourselves—Multiple Times
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer helmed research that would end a world war; unfortunately, what he found would forever…