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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.
Astronomy’s 10-year wish list: Big money, bigger telescopes and the biggest questions in science
The Hubble Space Telescope was born from a previous decadal survey. What leaps forward will come from this…
Here’s a Closer Look Inside a Nuclear Reactor
Understandably, there are several questions abound concerning the use of nuclear power plants for energy generation. However, there…
Researchers Just Created the World’s Smallest Battery Assembly—And It’s Size of a Dust Grain
Just when you thought devices couldn’t possibly get any smaller, researchers from the Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC),…
A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and the internet – an electrical engineer explains how
Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic.…
Novel “Nanocrystal Gel” Can Switch Between Gel and Liquid States
The concept of nanomaterials certainly isn’t anything new—innovations using these technologies are already slowly making their way towards…
Future Crops Might Soon See Fertilizers Replaced By Bioengineered Bacteria
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) announced earlier this year that researchers from Washington State University (WSU) successfully…
Are Analog Computers Making a Comeback?
Derek Muller continues his series on his YouTube channel Veritasium about analog computers, and posits a unique question:…
A Veritasium Deep-Dive Into Analog Computers
Veritasium’s Derek Muller takes us on a journey through history as we unveil the history behind one of…
“Gamma Sulfur” May Hold the Key to Future Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Sulfur (S) has seen itself in the center of several new developments in the field of battery engineering…
Scientists Used Heart Cells to Make a Biohybrid “Fish”—And It Swims Using “Heartbeats”
First off, no, scientists did not slap fins onto a human heart and made it backstroke across a…