Richard Feynman: Journey of the Most Charismatic Physicist
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist held in much reverence and awe among both the scientific community and the public alike. This was a…
Rolls-Royce Completes Technology Testing of World’s Fastest Electric Plane
Rolls-Royce has completed ground testing of the technology which will be used in its line of all-electric planes. The company claims that one of its…
Helmholtz Equation and Its Applications
The Helmholtz equation is an important differential equation. It has many applications in various fields of physics, such as optics, acoustics, electrostatics and quantum mechanics.…
New Discovery Can Help Bring Quantum Computers Into Real-World Applications
A team of physicists from Aalto University has developed a new detector which can measure energy quanta with an unmatched resolution. The team also had…
New Study Finds That Volcanic Ash Can Be Used To Reduce Rising CO2 Levels
A team of researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton believe that volcanic ash can play an important…
Move Over Finger Prints: 3D Finger Vein Authentication Is Here
The traditional passwords are being replaced by fingerprint and facial authentication systems really quickly. They are being used everywhere right from accessing a mobile phone…
Black Holes Explained
Black holes are curious bodies that occur in cosmological physics. They sound almost exotic, with their unreal properties and air of mystery. Scientists studying them…
A Student Theoretically Proves That Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Possible
We all know that Einstein’s theory of relativity permits both forward and backward time travel. But backward time travel is one of the most problematic…
What causes the “butterflies in the stomach” feeling?
Butterflies in the stomach is a physiological response of the body when we are nervous due to fear or any other situation like talking to…
SpaceX Can Now Launch National-Security Satellites With Used Rockets
U.S. Space Force has announced that it will launch two GPS satellites on a used Falcon-9 rocket next year. It is the first such decision…
A Bioelectronic System That Can Control The Membrane Voltage in Living Cells
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz has achieved an unprecedented control of cell membrane voltage. The team which also…
Stefan Boltzmann Law
Stefan Boltzmann Law or Stefan’s law is an important law in thermodynamics. It relates the energy radiated by a blackbody to its temperature. It is…
Rachel Carson: The Finest Nature Writer of Twentieth Century
The sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing — John KeatsLines that influenced the title of ‘Silent Spring’ Rachel Carson, an American…
Scientists Develop a New Class of Materials For Optical Biointerfaces
A team of researchers from the College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University has invented an optical platform that will likely become the new standard in…
Is Time Travel Possible?
When we hear the phrase ‘time travel’, the first thing that we usually think of is travelling backwards into the past, perhaps to see our…
Researchers Identify a Brand New Type of Superconductor
A team of researchers from Cornell University has now identified a possible third type of superconductor, a g-wave superconductor. Until now, we basically had two…
A Computer Can Now Predict Your Thoughts And Draw Images Based On Them
A team of researchers at the University of Helsinki has developed a first of its kind technique in which a computer models your visual perception…
Why do Pregnancies Last Longer in Some Species than Others? New Research Explains
Researchers from The Francis Crick Institute have found the clock that sets the speed of embryonic development and discovered that the mechanism is based on…
Do Blind People Dream in Visual Images?
Yes, blind people do indeed dream in visual images. For people who were born with eyesight and then later went blind, it is not surprising…
Sun entered a new Solar Cycle, NASA confirms
NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) have confirmed that our Sun has entered a new Solar cycle starting from December 2019. This is…
Engineers Design a Wide-Angle Lens That is Completely Flat
A team of engineers from MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell has designed a fisheye lens that’s completely flat. It is the first…
Researchers Reveal Secret of Plant Dietary Fiber Structure
Researchers from the University of Queensland and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have uncovered the mechanics of how plant cell walls balance the…
Kirchhoff’s Laws
Kirchhoff’s Circuit Laws are two laws that help us analyze electric circuits in terms of their voltage and current. The two corresponding laws are hence…
Carl Sagan: A Pop Science Icon
I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars; … And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a…
Researchers Reveal Neurons That Guide Adaptive Behaviour
A team of researchers at the University of Zurich has revealed the neurons in the brain that guide adaptive behavior. Their new study that utilized…