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Pluto May Once Have Had Rivers of Liquid Nitrogen
A Dynamic Little World Pluto is proving to be rather more remarkable than anyone ever expected. We’ve seen that it has an unusually young and smooth surface, a layered atmosphere, moving mountains, and...
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This Nanofiber Sensor Sniffs Disease Markers in Your Breath
Something Doesn’t Smell Right Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) are developing biosensors that can sniff out certain molecular signatures, a useful tool for...
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This Is The Camera That Will Lead The VR Revolution
YEAR ONE OF THE VR REVOLUTION 2016 is shaping up to be a defining year for virtual reality. Many are confident it will be the year the VR industry sticks, triggering a revolution that will completely...
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Harvard Scientists Say They May Have Detected Dark Matter Annihilation
A Mysterious Signature Recent decades have witnessed a number of astronomical firsts—improvements in telescopes and survey techniques have led to the discovery of many things that were, formerly, only...
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New Catalyst Lets Us Store the Power of the Sun
Rainy Day Energy One of the problems with using renewable energy sources is that you’re overly dependent on the fickle whims of weather. Drawing power from the Sun is fine, but what happens when it’s...
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Hypersonic Travel May Become a Reality Sooner Than You Think
Mach 5 and Beyond Lockheed Martin’s famous SR-71 Blackbird, a high-speed, high-altitude surveillance plane capable of reaching speeds in excess of Mach 3, is practically the poster child for supersonic...
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The Case for Planet Nine Just Got a Whole Lot Stronger
A Forgotten Child in the Solar System’s Attic Earlier this year, Mike Brown—an astronomer at Caltech who is famous for his role in the (somewhat controversial) planetary demotion of Pluto—offered,...
View ArticleQuantum Computing Comes Closer, Thanks to a New Qubit Quantum Circuit
The Russians Are Coming The Russian bear is muscling onto the field of quantum computing, and its latest accomplishment—the creation of a two-qubit, feedback-controlled circuit—is a major step in that...
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Drone Ships and Unmanned Subs: The Wave of the Future
The Evolution of the Drone Ship The handwriting’s on the wall. Autonomous vehicles have arrived—and they’re here to stay. We’ve seen them in just about every sphere of human technological endeavor....
View ArticleNew Discovery May Allow Us to Harness the Power of a Photon’s Spin
See the Light A new discovery links the spin and momentum of light waves, and could mean a major advance in the development of new photonic and spintronic devices. Scientists from Purdue University...
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These Nanobots Can Repair Circuits All by Themselves
Taking Inspiration From Mother Nature Nanorobotics has long been touted as one of the most promising “miracle technologies” of the future. But one of the fundamental problems with such extreme...
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Nipping Cancer in the Bud—New Supersensitive Biosensor Makes It Happen
Early Warning System Using “nanostructured metamaterials,” a team at Case Western Reserve University has created an optical sensor for cancer detection that is 1 million times more sensitive than...
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This ‘Super Earth’ is a ‘Super Hell’—It Makes Venus Look Like a Paradise
The Forbidden Planet If there’s a short list for extrasolar planets to visit, 55 Cancri e is definitely not going to be on it. It’s hot, hellish, and weird…really weird. As our instruments become more...
View ArticleWe’ve Figured Out How to Program Living Cells
Life-Shaping The evolution of human technology has proceeded in lockstep with the biological evolution of our species. For millions of years we were content with our primitive Oldowan choppers and...
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Pulsar Finally Found in the Andromeda Galaxy
Extragalactic Pulsars Wherever there are stars there are the corpses of stars—white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. So astronomers knew that the nearest large galaxy to our own, the Andromeda...
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Scientists Store and Retrieve Image Files on DNA
Harnessing the Power of Genes Imagine huge data centers and server farms that swallow up whole acres, busily archiving the myriad of data we store away in the Cloud or send winging across the...
View ArticleA Real “Death Star”—White Dwarf Caught Destroying a Tiny Planet
Astronomers have mined data from the Kepler Space Telescope, NASA’s planet-hunter, to discover a miniature planet in the act of being shredded by its star. The discovery was made as part of the K2...
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Colossal Black Hole Found Skulking In a Tiny Galaxy Cluster
A MASSIVE Find It has long been thought that supermassive black holes are mainly found in huge galaxy clusters. For example, the largest current record-holder, a whopping 21 billion-solar-mass black...
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Stephen Hawking Teams With Billionaire to Build An Interstellar Spaceship
A Little Bit Goes a Long Way The problem with geniuses—or maybe it’s their strength—is that they’re always restless. They just never sit still. Witness a little project called “Breakthrough Starshot,”...
View ArticleAn Infant, Rogue Planet Has Been Found Lurking in Our Solar Neighborhood
The Wanderer A team of astronomers has detected a giant, free-floating planet some 4 to 8 times the mass of Jupiter in our neighborhood. The planet is kind of a missing link on the evolutionary scale,...
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