In 1935, 34 years before the Moon landing, Emilio Herrera designed a pressure suit to …
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Ohio State researchers arranged tiny crystal defects into dense networks and made two heat-resistant alloys …
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Japanese researchers mixed plastic-eating enzymes into compostable plastics. At 757 m deep, the films were …
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New series Spanish Geniuses: Torres Quevedo, the forgotten genius
by JWCarlin42 viewsRadio remote control, the first passenger cable car, a chess machine and the computer’s first …
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A tiny silicon nitride ring fills the gap between two lasers with a ruler of …
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Cold-resistant alloys: two niobium-titanium metals stay tough at -253°C, the temperature of liquid hydrogen, where …
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NTT moves data with light, not wires, inside AI data centres
by JWCarlin96 viewsJapan’s NTT wants to replace electrical wiring with light pulses inside computers. Its first light-based …
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Penrose’s quantum consciousness: what anaesthesia reveals
by Lisa Larsen123 viewsPenrose and Hameroff think consciousness starts in tiny tubes inside neurons. A rat study with …
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Donghua University spun whole circuits inside soft, washable threads that light up, process signals and …
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First nuclear clocks: thorium atoms now keep time by themselves
by JWCarlin34 viewsTeams in Vienna and Beijing built working nuclear clocks that tick with the nucleus of …