Our universe is expanding – all matters in the universe are gradually drifting apart. It was discovered by Edwin Hubble in 1931 while he was studying the far away galaxies. In 1998, humans came to know that the expansion is accelerated – universe seems to be expanding at an increasing rate. To explain this phenomena, scientists proposed ...

A team of astronomers has recently detected the existence of a rare mineral known as titanium oxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. Designated as WASP-19b, the exoplanet is situated at 815 light years away from the Earth in the vela constellation. The finding was done using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory. The ...

Hoya Corporation, Tokyo based company, unveiled its Hard Disk Drive prototype made of glass, which could push forward the development of high storage HDDs. They are now encouraging other manufacturers to ditch aluminum and use glass substrates. Over the last couple of years, the rate of improvements of hard drive density has significantly reduced. Although ...

Scientists at the University of Houston have achieved a milestone in stretchable electronics, which can be used as an artificial skin to give robotic hand a sense of touch. This allows the robot to differentiate between what’s cold and what’s hot, while providing different advantages to tons of biomedical instruments. The new approach for creating ...

First conceived in 1996, the revolutionary James Webb space telescope is now less than a year away from its launch. Initially, the space telescope was scheduled only to observe Exo-planets, but according to the recent announcement by NASA, the JWST will also collect important information about Europa and Enceladus – two of the most likely candidates to ...

A new study done by the researchers from the University of Washington suggests that our planet is now entering into a whole new geological era. The proposed era will be dominated by increased levels of emissions and man-made materials. The team named it the Anthropocene era. According to paper’s lead author ecologist Marina Alberti, our planet could ...

Launched on September 12, iPhone X, 8 and 8+ will run on new A11 Bionic chip, yet again raising the performance bar. Every new iPhone version comes with slightly better hardware, cameras and faster processors. However, for the first time, Apple’s smartphone, iPhone X will feature a custom-built chip developed for handling artificial intelligence workloads. ...

Physicists have developed a new method that pushes the limits of freezing molecules to slightly above absolute zero. They have used a combination of magnetic fields and lasers to trap and cool down a molecule of calcium monofluoride to 50 millionths of a degree above absolute zero – 50 microKelvin, or minus 273.15 degree Celsius. Although, it is not ...

For the first time in nearly a century, astronomers have been able to accurately measure how much effect can a galactic rotation have on its overall shape. It turns out to be massive. Considering the vastness of even a small galaxy, measuring a perfect 3D shape is an extremely complex job. But researchers from the ...

Physicists study the nature of universe and introduce us with unknown and shocking facts of the cosmos. Most of the things present in outer space are odd already and we have just begun to understand the only tiny fraction of it. Today, there are so many strange theories out there that it’s impossible to mention them ...

Scientists at Los Alamos National Lab have discovered a machine learning technique that can forecast the time remaining before the fault fails, by detecting acoustic signal emitted by lab-generated earthquake. ‘At any specific moment, the signals (noise) emerging from lab fault zone give significant data that tells when the fault will slip’ says Paul Johnson, lead ...

Scientists at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have demonstrated that neural networks can accurately analyze gravitational lenses (complex distortion in spacetime) about 10 million times faster than conventional techniques. Today’s methods require input from experts and are computationally demanding. They usually take weeks or even months to complete. However, the same results can be achieved ...