The largest type of black holes — called supermassive black holes — have masses of the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of the Sun. The mass of our Sun is 1.989 x 1030 kilograms, approximately 333,000 times...
Telegram is a free instant-app service founded by people behind VK, which is Russia’s biggest social networking site, primarily focused on speed and user privacy. Initially released in August 2013, the app has managed to get over 400 million...
NEMS (short for NanoElectroMechanical System) are devices that integrate electrical and mechanical functionality at the nanoscale, i.e., at or below 100 nanometers. They are the advanced level of miniaturization after MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical...
A fact is something that is known to exist or to have happened, about which there are enough information and proof. For example, “Mars is a planet” is an astronomical fact, and “the word alien contains three vowels” is a...
Planet X is a hypothetical planet that is located about 400 astronomical units (AU) away. It may take up to 20,000 Earth years to complete one full orbit around our Sun. The planet has not yet been observed, but mathematical calculations suggest...
3D printing technology has significantly improved in the past decade. And now it is taking more and more branches of the economy by storm. So far, it has been successfully utilized in a variety of fields, ranging from medical and manufacturing to...
In computing, the word “server” comes from queueing theory, which refers to the mathematical study of waiting lines, or queues. The use of “serving” dates back to the late 1960s documents, such as RFC 4. The term...
Quantum computers are not supposed to check your emails, update status, or do normal software/hardware tasks. Instead, they are based on something more complicated – Quantum Mechanics. Quantum computer deals with particles much smaller than...
Modern smartphones come with various sensors to facilitate better user experience and provide apps with accurate information about the world around the device. This includes a proximity sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, barometer, digital compass...
The new research shows that the origin of photosynthesis in today’s plants had begun nearly 1.25 billion years ago. Previous studies had placed it somewhere between 0.7 and 1.2 billion years. Researchers put “Bangiomorpha...
