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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.
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…
Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in Cosmic Signal Detection with “Ultra-Pure Cables”
In the quest to detect exceedingly rare cosmic events shedding light on the universe’s fundamental mysteries, research teams…
How Do We Build a Telescope On the Moon?
The James Webb telescope may be out there, but some experts think it may be high time to…
How zinc-ion batteries may solve our renewable energy storage problem
Storm William D Gourley, McMaster University and Drew Higgins, McMaster University Hotter summers, drier forests, rising waters: climate…
Should We Bring Airships Back?
Photos of airships have long been remebered as black-and-white images from decades past, showing what the people back…
Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?
Gail Iles, RMIT University In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended…
Machines can’t always take the heat − two engineers explain the physics behind how heat waves threaten everything from cars to computers
Extreme heat can affect how well machines function, and the fact that many machines give off their own…
How gene mapping almost all remaining kākāpō will help NZ’s rare night parrot survive
Shutterstock/FeatherStalker Don Joseph Guhlin, University of Otago and Peter Dearden, University of Otago The genetic mapping of almost…