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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.
Combined power of two telescopes is helping crack the mystery of eerie rings in the sky
Some of the MeerKAT’s 64 dishes, which astronomers use to collect huge amounts of data. © South African…
Scientists Can Now Turn Plastic Waste Into “Nanopored” Carbon Capture Tech
As the world’s demand for plastic products remains unabated through the years since its widespread use, experts have…
Can my electric car power my house? Not yet for most drivers, but vehicle-to-home charging is coming
Think of your car as a home power supply on wheels. Tesson/Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Seth…
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:…