Bake Your Bread While Cutting It
Ever wanted to toast bread while cutting it?
It's from the future! There’s a scene in the 2005 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie where a lightsaberish bread knife is not...
Facial Recognition for Birds is Here!
Ever saw some birds and wondered what species the bird are? Well, now there's an app for that! Almost! The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Visipedia are collaborating to develop computer...
A small mistake helped scientists to quadruple battery lifespan
Until somebody figures out a alternative for lithium-ion in rechargeable batteries, research will continue into find out how to cram extra power inside as well as extending their useful lifespan. Two...
Experimental DNA Data Storage: 1 billion terabytes in a gram
Ever ran out of disk space? In the future, you might not have to worry about that, especially when it comes to long-term storage. Microsoft has bought ten million strands of Deoxyribonucleic acid...
Graphene Converts Heat into Electrical Energy
Graphene, an allotrope of carbon, was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov. In 2010, they had been awarded the Nobel...
Power Over WiFi: Charge your devices from 28 feet away!
Energy beamed to camera via modified Wi-Fi signals
Everyone hates wires, especially when you have a LOT of them. A cable to charge your android phone, another one to charge your iPad...
Carbon nano fibres made from thin air
Scientists in the US have discovered a method to take carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and make carbon nano fibres, a useful manufacturing material.
Their solar-powered system runs a small current...
Researchers can accurately identify people using their brain waves
Yes, Brain Waves.
For the longest time, the world has relied on fingerprints as a technique to easily identify individuals. It's because a fingerprint is unique (and permanent) for each individual—so what happens...
Subatomic Particles that Appear to defy Standard Model Particle Physics
Subatomic particles have been discovered that seem to defy the Standard Model of particle physics. The team working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have discovered proof of leptons decaying at completely...
Students want to make it to orbit, and they are close!
Last month, the Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS), a student venture at Portland State College, launched a rocket out in the Oregon desert, on 19th July 2015 to be exact. The rocket soared almost five kilometers...
