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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.
This “Fake Leaf” Can Capture More Carbon Than Other Similar Tech
The world is in a race against time to reduce its carbon footprint—that is, the total amount of…
A Robot Just Performed an Autonomous Laparoscopic Procedure For the First Time
With every major step or leap that the best of our engineers can impart unto us through everyday…
Hydrogels May Be Our Next Best Bet Against Obesity (With a Little Help From Light)
According to the World Health Organization, some 1.9 billion adults aged 18 and above were classified as overweight…
Nuclear Fusion Scores Yet Another Win With “Burning Plasma” Record
Avid readers of Modern Sciences shouldn’t be surprised at this point that we’re covering yet another milestone in…
The Secret That Enables Sewage Facilities
Civil engineer Grady Hillhouse, with his YouTube channel Practical Engineering, gives us a question that we perhaps choose…
This Stretchable Thermometer May Soon Join the Ranks of Soft Robotics
The burgeoning field of soft robotics has been riding a surge of interest as of recent; the brightest…
Novel mRNA Vaccine Capsule Enables Oral Delivery
Vaccines are at the top of discussions nowadays, and for a pretty good reason: our current health landscape…
New “Artificial Muscles” Are Made Out Of Human Proteins
The things inside us that let us move are, believe it or not, still not fully understood; much…
New “Nanotherapy” Innovation May Become Future Type 1 Diabetes Treatment
The push that science has given itself towards developing new cures and treatments for diabetes is not lost…
Novel Nerve Healing Technology Achieved Via Improved “Guidance Conduits”
Ever get yourself in a pretty nasty injury, have it heal, and find out that it doesn’t “feel”…