February 22, 2021 Tech News The Mantis Shrimp Inspires a New Material—Made by Bacteria A good kind of chaotic, as it happens. When the researchers tested the strength of each lattice, the Type IV…
February 21, 2021 Tech News The Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Be Meaningful After All At a sleep research symposium in January 2020, Janna Lendner presented findings that hint at a way to look at…
February 20, 2021 Tech News Can Hamburger Buns Save Your Pipes from Freezing? So, imagine this steel container is instead the water line going into your house. (Unless you collect rainwater or make…
February 15, 2021 Tech News How to Calculate the String Angle of a Kite vs. a Balloon What? This looks just like the forces for the balloon? OK, it does look similar—but there is a big difference.…
February 14, 2021 Tech News Don’t Tell Einstein, but Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’ Identical twins have nothing on black holes. Twins may grow from the same genetic blueprints, but they can differ in…
February 12, 2021 Tech News Researchers Levitated a Small Tray Using Nothing but Light Their simulations estimated that a 6-centimeter plate could carry 10 milligrams of cargo in the mesosphere under natural sunlight. Ten…
February 9, 2021 Tech News How This Teeny-Tiny Sea Critter Punches Like Mike Tyson At less than a quarter-inch long, the amphipod—a crustacean that looks a bit like a shrimp—lives a leisurely life, sifting…
February 2, 2021 Tech News How to Use Your Speedometer to Figure Out Where Your Car Is Let’s imagine that you are in a car with no windows. I know that’s crazy, but just hold on. Although…
January 25, 2021 Tech News Could Bobbie Hold 2 Spaceships Together in The Expanse? Let’s just check this solution real quick. What about the units? On the left, tension is in units of Newtons.…
January 24, 2021 Tech News The Secret Ingredient That Powers Supernovas In 1987, a giant star exploded right next to our own Milky Way galaxy. It was the brightest and closest…