In 2016, the French government invested over $5 million in building a one-kilometer long solar road. The model has proven to be neither energy-efficient nor economically viable. The trial is now over, as the road has become cracked and damaged. ...
Researchers transform 20 entangled quantum bits into Schrödinger cat states. This breaks the old record of 14 qubits which was established in 2011. Such superimposed states could provide an important resource for various applications, ranging from...
Search engines have made it really easy to find information and buy products online, but have you ever stumbled upon a photo that looks familiar but you can’t recognize where it was taken or what actually it symbolizes? It happens to all of us...
Three physicists get a high-profile recognition, more than 4 decades after they came up with modern field theory – supergravity. Daniel Freedman, Sergio Ferrara, and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen have won $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in...
Researchers built a new software program to make biological analysis easy. It processes large datasets automatically and enables interactive visualization, fast and precise alignment, and real-time fusion. Modern light microscopic methods —...
The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award given for intellectual achievement in several categories. The prize is named after a Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who invented numerous explosive including dynamite and held...
MIT researchers have designed an artificial neuron from superconducting nanowires. In theory, a simple circuit of such neurons can work as efficiently as the human brain. The network can carry out one hundred trillion synaptic operations per second...
A large number of specific types of particles (known as scalars) were created during cosmic inflation. If dark matter has any connection with these scalar particles, it may predate the Big Bang. About 85 percent of the mass of the universe is made...
Chromatography is a technique of separating out different parts of a chemical mixture so that they can be analyzed individually. This physical method allows chemists to closely observe organic and inorganic compounds and figure out what they are...
Computers are very complex machines, yet people operate them without any technical skills. They just interact with the graphical interface and all the background process is usually hidden. Well, every single element you are seeing on your desktop is...
Although space mining sounds pretty sci-fi, it will be a reality in the future. Researchers are investigating the performance of the particular bacterium to extract metals from asteroids. The bacterium named Shewanella oneidensis has been known to...
Researchers study the brain of 324 healthy individuals using magnetic resonance tomography. They found that people’s level of general knowledge depends on structural brain network connectivity. The efficient fiber interconnections within the...