Category: Technology

A flurry of new battery plant projects are in the pipeline in Europe, but it faces tough competition. Europe’s efforts to build up its battery-making capacity got a major boost Friday as Sweden’s Northvolt and Taiwan’s ProLogium announced projects to build factories in Germany and France. The continent has been racing to produce more electric […]

Image of the developed 19-core optical fiber. Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. A group of researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, Japan) and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (SEI, Japan) in collaboration with the Eindhoven University of Technology, University of L’Aquila, and […]

When I began my undergraduate physics degree (around 20 years ago), “What is the theory of everything?” was a question that I heard often. It was used as a label for how theoretical physicists were trying to develop a deeper understanding of the elementary building blocks of our universe and the forces that govern their […]

When we think of the 1969 moon landing, two names come to mind — Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But there was a third crew member who piloted the spacecraft. Michael Collins played an instrumental role in the Apollo 11 mission, and earned the nickname “the loneliest man.” On April 28, Michael Collins passed away at the […]

Credit: CSIRO An investigation by CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator has confirmed the location of the wreck of the MV Blythe Star. The 44-meter motor vessel (MV) Blythe Star was a coastal freighter that disappeared off Tasmania nearly 50 years ago. The vessel was traveling from Hobart to King Island when, on October 13, 1973, […]

(a) Champion J–V curves of Spiro-OMeTAD and P3HT HTL-based devices under warm white LED illumination. (b) The statistical distribution of PCE values of Spiro-OMeTAD and P3HT devices under 1000 lux warm white LED light. (c) Champion J–V curves of Spiro-OMeTAD and P3HT based devices under 1 sun illumination. (d) The statistical distribution of PCE values […]

Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question that fascinates scientists and the public alike. In science, the focus tends to be on our search for life elsewhere. The idea that we might be watched by a distant alien civilisation, however, is usually confined to the realm of science fiction. But if there are […]

Do you enjoy video games? If so, you might be interested in finding out who made it to the World Video Game Hall of Fame!  The Hall of Fame was first established in 2015 by the Strong National Museum of Play. Each year, a panel of journalists and video game historians pick the most influential games […]

Imagine using your cellphone to control the activity of your own cells to treat injuries and disease. It sounds like something from the imagination of an overly optimistic science fiction writer. But this may one day be a possibility through the emerging field of quantum biology. Over the past few decades, scientists have made incredible […]

Golden State Warriors point guard Steph Curry is one of the world’s leading basketball players and unquestionably the greatest shooter of all time. The video below may look like it’s on a loop, but it’s actually Curry sinking 105 three point shots in a row – that’s five minutes of the same precise and highly-skilled […]