Shadows cast during a partial eclipse. Image source: Yvonne Hanson/Shutterstock.com A recent study discovered that certain types of clouds vanish during solar eclipses, shedding light on why it happens. This finding might affect efforts to control the climate. During solar eclipses, people have noticed that regular cumulus clouds over land disappear quickly. The lead author of...
Liquid gallium in a Petri dish. Credit: University of Sydney/Philip Ritchie Researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking approach that leverages liquid metals to transform and "green" the chemical industry. This innovative technique could replace the energy-intensive methods rooted in the early 20th century, offering a much-needed shift away from solid catalysts. Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Chemical production contributes...
AMANO Jun-ichi/Wikimedia In Kasukabe, Japan lies the world's biggest underground floodwater facility. Large artificial concrete caverns that compose the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, also called the G-Cans project, sprawl under the city's surface-level infrastructure. The large subterranean drainage system was developed to prevent devastating flooding of the waterways that surround the city. Because of...
Schematics of Josephson junction device. Credit: POSTECH A POSTECH research team led by Professor Gil-Ho Lee and Gil Young Cho (Department of Physics). Has created a platform that can control the properties of solid materials with light and measure them. Distinguished for establishing a platform to manage and measure the properties of materials in numerous ways...
Griffith-type transonic airfoil inside an wind tunnel test section. Credit: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Armando Collazo Garcia III received more than he anticipated from a graduate course he took last spring. He gained a new understanding of the physics of transonic shocks generated throughout a laminar flow airfoil with boundary-layer suction and included a published...
Research by Gustavo Caetano-Anollés and Fayez Aziz, University of Illinois, reveals a “big bang” during evolution of protein subunits known as domains. The team looked for protein relationships and domain recruitment into proteins over 3.8 billion years across all taxonomic units. Their results could have implications for vaccine development and disease management. Credit: Fred...
Which glass shape reigns supreme in keeping a beer cool? One of these is not like the others. Credit: Pixabay How do you keep a glass of beer cold for as long as possible? The answer lies in science, naturally. That’s what one researcher set out to determine, finding the ideal glass shape to keep...
DEEP Robotics previewed its upcoming wheeled quadruped robot, the Lynx, which bounds down steep slopes, climbs over large obstacles, navigates tricky inclines, bounces down steps on two limbs, and speeds along dirt tracks.DEEP Robotics China's DEEP Robotics is set to launch the Lynx, a mid-sized quadruped robot that rolls on wheels instead of pads for...
Artist's concept of an orbital solar power plantSpace Solar UK startup Space Solar has signed a deal with Reykjavik Energy that could make Iceland the first country to receive solar power beamed from space, with a 30-MW demonstration set for launch by 2030. While solar power is a clean energy source, it faces limitations like cloud...
Credit: Pixabay What started as a bonus question in a high school math competition has led to an astonishing 10 new proofs of the ancient Pythagorean theorem. It has long been considered impossible to use trigonometry to demonstrate a theorem that is foundational to trigonometric principles, as this creates a logical fallacy of circular reasoning by...
