Researchers built a flexible supercapacitor that delivers both high power density and high energy density. It shows no performance degradation, even when it is bent at 180 degrees. It can retain 97.8% of its capacity after 5,000 cycles. ...
Megalodon is a species of shark, which first appeared on Earth some 23 million years ago and went extinct about 3.6 million years ago. It remains the largest known fish species to ever roam on Earth waters. It is believed that they went extinct...
Using artificial intelligence, researchers found a powerful antibiotic named halicin. It kills harmful bacteria, including ones that are resistant to all existing antibiotics. It has a different chemical structure from all known antibiotics and...
MIT researchers develop an automated text-generating system to spot and replace outdated information in Wikipedia pages. The tool rewrites sentences while retaining humanlike grammar and structure. Online encyclopediae contain millions of...
Orion constellation is a group of stars aligned in a specific manner, which is most visible in the night sky during winters in the northern hemisphere. The constellation is named after Orion, a giant hunter in Greek mythology. It is often identified...
Researchers discover a new type of antibiotics that kill bacteria by taking a unique approach. Usually, antibiotics such as penicillin prevent building of the bacterial wall around the outside of their cells. New antibiotics do the opposite: they...
HPC5 is a GPU-accelerated system capable of performing 51.7 million billion operations per second (51.7 petaFlops). Among the top 100 supercomputers, it would rank as the 5th most powerful in the world. It will help scientists study underground...
The new ‘smart’ diapers can notify a caregiver that it’s a time for a change. Unlike other diaper technology, it is both affordable and disposable. It will help track and identify specific health problems, such as signs of...
Hawking radiation is thermal radiation spontaneously emitted by black holes, due to quantum effects near their event horizon. It gradually decreases the rotational energy and mass of black holes. However, it’s just a theory; no such radiation...
Microsoft introduces the Turing Natural Language Generation, the world’s largest model with 17 billion parameters. It generates abstractive summaries of text documents, direct answers to questions, and words to complete sentences. The model...
What is plate tectonics? It is one of the many questions that you’ll tackle early in your geography/geology lessons. In layman’s terms, plate tectonics is a scientific theory that describes the movements of the earth’s outer shell...
The new droplet-based electricity generator provides instantaneous power density along with incredible energy-conversion efficiency. The device can produce a voltage of 140V using just a 0.1-milliliter drop of water (released from a height of 5.9...