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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.
The Next Generation of Spacesuits
Only 12 people have walked on the Moon, all within a span of 4 years, but no one…
The Science Behind Solar Power and the Power Grid
Solar panels, batteries, and wind turbines, known as inverter-based resources, convert DC power into AC for the grid,…
What Can You Find Inside Lithium-Ion Batteries?
Lithium-ion batteries consist of active materials like layered oxide and graphite, coated onto metal foils to form electrodes.…
Solar storm knocks out farmers’ high-tech tractors – an electrical engineer explains how a larger storm could take down the power grid and the internet
Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the Earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic.…
Designing a Disc Launcher to Prove a Point
As it turns out, designing a disc launcher from scratch isn’t easy; the development process involved many redesigns…
The Vulcan Rocket Launch
Destin Sandlin and his father visited Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to witness the first flight of the Vulcan…
Electric vehicles will start to cut emissions and improve air quality in our cities – but only once they’re common
LanaElcova/Shutterstock John Rose, University of Sydney and Andrea Pelligrini, University of Sydney Electric vehicles are often seen as…
China’s new Moon mission is about to launch, and it’s a rare example of countries working together
Bruno Scramgnon/Pexels Richard de Grijs, Macquarie University All systems are “go” for tonight’s launch of China’s next step…
‘Everywhere we looked we found evidence’: the godfather of microplastics on 20 years of pollution research and the fight for global action
University of Plymouth, CC BY-ND Richard Thompson, University of Plymouth Thirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets and…
Chemists Uncover New Insights into Light-Matter Interaction in Silicon
At a Glance A team of chemists at the University of California, Irvine, has made a groundbreaking discovery…