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This Technique Shrinks Objects To One-Thousandth The Original Volume

This Technique Shrinks Objects To One-Thousandth The Original Volume

Complex 3D Structure Prior To Shrinking [via MIT]

Engineers at MIT have contrived a way to make nanoscale 3D structures of nearly every object by shrinking them to one-thousandth of their original volume. The technique is called “Implosion Fabrication.”

Existing techniques for manufacturing nanostructure are limited in what they can do, especially the ones that involve adding layers on…

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What Happens When You Lick A Battery?

What Happens When You Lick A Battery?

Just for the sake of curiosity, if you put your tongue on a 9-volt battery, you would get a slightly painful shock that almost resembles sour taste, kind of like lemonade. Why does that happen?  Well, here’s what goes through your tongue when you lick a 9V battery and why that shock has a flavor.

Touching those little knobs or leads of a 9-volt battery won’t give you a shock because the skin…

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Massive Supernova Explosion May Have Killed Off Large Shark Species Including Megalodon

Massive Supernova Explosion May Have Killed Off Large Shark Species Including Megalodon

A supernova that took place some 150 light years away from Earth could have sent off a tsunami of cosmic energy that eventually stormed through the earth’s atmosphere triggering climate change and mass extinctions of large marine species such as Megalodon.

According to Adrian Melott, the lead of the paper, and his team, the supernova energy scattered layers of iron-60all over the world…

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Can We Bring The Internet Of Things Worldwide?

In November 2018, Elon Musk received permission to launch 7,000 satellites into orbit. It’s not a vanity project — and he wasn’t even the first to receive permission that day. Three other companies did as well, and “Sir” Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic has been talking for yearsabout launching a constellation of satellites into orbit. The goal of projects like these is to, among other things,…

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Can A Smartphone Stream Its Own Destruction?

You have probably seen the Instagram live video of a girl shooting her phone while streaming. Well, the phone however continued to work: you can hear the full gunshot sound and even see the recoil before the stream came to complete halt.  But, is it possible for a modern smartphone to stream its own destruction?

No, it’s not – and the video is likely fake.

There’s absolutely no way any smartphone…

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Humans Think Using The Brain’s Navigation System, Reveals New Study

How do humans think? This is one of the most intriguing questions that has captivated neuroscientists for decades. And not long ago, it seemed like something that no one would ever find an answer to.

But, a team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig, Germany, and the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, Norway have come up with…

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If Fire Isn’t Solid, Liquid, Gas, or Plasma, Then What Is it?

If Fire Isn’t Solid, Liquid, Gas, or Plasma, Then What Is it?

The shivering cold days are finally here, and you’ll pretty much enjoy being around a campfire. Its warmth, flickering light, crackling noise, and distinctive smells are enough to give you a sense of enjoyment. If you get too close, the heat will tingle your nostrils and its searing flames will burn you.

Well, the flames can be quite captivating to gaze into, but what exactly are you looking at?…

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Using These Words Often Means You’re Struggling with Depression

Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Millions of people unknowing struggle with depression every day, and since it’s a complex mental illness, it often goes undiagnosed. But now predicting the ailment has got a lot easier, and all that is needed is the language you use in your social media posts.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that using the…

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Report: Earth Has Lost 60% Of Its Wildlife In Just The Last 40 Years

If we can just spurn the evidence of how biodiversity is changing around us, and how we have pushed some species to extinction, we are so much worse than we already think we are. There’s not a single thing that humans don’t stick their nose in.

The World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Report 2018 has released its latest document that provides a comprehensive view of the Earth’s health – and it’s…

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Scientists Have Identified A New Species Of The Famous Archaeopteryx – And It Could Probably Fly

Scientists have been able to determine the well examined fossil of Archaeopteryx lithographica, which was once considered flightless – is actually a separate species of Archaeopteryx that could fly.

Using synchrotron-radiation microtomography, the world’s most powerful X-ray machine, researchers were able to spot conflated skull bones, furcula with a knob like extension, coracoid – one of the…

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Machine Learning Predicts Earthquake And Tsunami With Unprecedented Accuracy

Machine learning applications are already quite extensive. It has proven its potential in online fraud detection, video surveillance and recommendation systems. Even its applications in medicine are far-reaching.

So what would it be like if we could apply machine learning techniques to predict natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis? The result is saving countless lives, while…

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Our Facial Vocabulary Is Surprisingly Good: We Know An Average Of 5,000 Faces

Families, friends and relatives combined, humans live in groups of about 100. But does this mean our facial recognition abilities are limited to just a few?

Not really – and a new study has found that our brain is outfitted with an ability to deal with as many as faces we encounter every day in the modern world – whether on screens or in social interactions.

The study published in the journal Pr…

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Interesting Science Facts

A lot of what we see and experience today are the results of countless scientific researches. Even at this exact moment, more developments and advancements are taking place.

Researchers’ ceaseless effort in their respective disciplines has led to discovery of new things and scientific breakthroughs every day. Their endeavour has helped us expand our wisdom and understand things as they happen and…

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The End Of History Illusion And Its Significance Explained

By the time commuter train started its operation, people thought they would never supersede horses. And about a century later, many people including experts made the same prognostication about telephones, car, and computers and so on. They were all wrong. What’s going on?

Of course, we can’t tell exactly what the future holds, or predict what sort of innovations or inventions the future has for…

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Sonic Boom From An Immensely Powerful Cosmic Explosion Detected

An unseen but extremely powerful cosmic burst has sent out sonic boom through the cosmos. This rare occurrence is an example of what astronomers call an orphan afterglow – the phenomenon astronomers have been chasing after for years, which now has been found although the explosion was totally unseen.

The colossal event was the result of the collapse of a massive star in a distant galaxy that is…

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Innovative Technology Disrupts The Agriculture Industry

The agriculture sector is facing significant challenges as it looks to the future. Approximately one in nine people on earth don’t have enough food to live healthy lives, and the world’s population is expected to grow from around 7.5 billion to almost 10 billion by 2050. Natural resources are already stressed, and climate change is threatening to worsen environmental challenges.

All of this means…

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The Nobel Prize In Chemistry 2018 Awarded To Frances Arnold, George Smith And Gregory Winter

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 to Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter. One half of the prize goes to Arnold while the other half is shared by Smith and Winter.

Arnold was awarded for her work in directing evolution of enzymes. Her methods are being routinely used to make new catalysts.

Smith was given the honour for…

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