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The Seven-Atom-Long Transistor That Will Change the World
It only measures seven atoms but, according to project lead scientist Michelle Simmons, computers made with this transistor—the smallest ever made—will “solve problems that would take longer than the...
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MOTHERF*CKING SHARKS CAN BECOME MOTHERF*CKING INVISIBLE
As if they weren’t scary enough, scientists have discovered that sharks can become invisible to prey/you using an optical trick. Not scared yet? Well, one of the invisible shark species is nicknamed...
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Nanowires Convert Rat’s Heartbeat Into Usable Electricity
Nanowires inside a rat can convert the power of breathing and heartbeats into electricity, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Technology Review reports these...
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Largest Sheet Of Graphene Produced, Can Be Used For Flexible Touchscreens
Graphene, the ridiculously thin, strong, electrically conductive, and flexible miracle material, might be coming to your touchscreens. And when it does, “you could theoretically roll up your iPhone and...
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New ultra-battery is the most powerful non-nuclear energy storage ever
What do you get when you combine some xenon, some fluoride, and pressures similar to those found at the center of the Earth? You get an ultra-battery, capable of storing more condensed energy than any...
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Bulletproof Custard: Liquid Armor That Can Stop Bullets
When it comes to bulletproof material, I think of strong, dense objects like concrete and really thick glass. I’ve never thought of liquids. But British scientists have, and they say liquid armor is...
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Clothing Grown From Bacteria
No, this top isn’t woven from human skin but something potentially even more gross: Bacteria.Using a bathtub mixture of yeast, bacteria and sweetened green tea, designer Suzanne Lee produces extremely...
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Strained Graphene Creates Pseudo-Magnetic Fields Stronger Than Any Before Seen
Putting the right kind of strain on a patch of graphene can make super-strong pseudo-magnetic fields, a new study says. The finding sheds new light on the properties of electromagnetism, not to mention...
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Quantum computers could overturn Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
The uncertainty principle is at the foundation of quantum mechanics: You can measure a particle’s position or its velocity, but not both. Now it seems that quantum computer memory could let us violate...
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Future Solar Cells Will Be Made From Fly Eyes To Maximize Efficiency
Scientists believe that fly eyes are perfectly shaped for manufacturing efficient solar cells. Specifically, copying the eye of the Blowfly would allow solar cells to “collect sunlight from a larger...
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Silicon Compound That’s Quicker To Melt Could Make For Cheaper Gadgets
A team of MIT researchers has discovered a new silicon compound that—get this—melts as it gets cooler, some 500 degrees Celsius lower than silicon’s natural melting point. The researchers think it...
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MIT’s Self-Assembling Solar Cells Recycle Themselves Repeatedly, Just Like...
Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells. A team of MIT scientists believe they’ve created a synthetic chloroplast...
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Titanium Foam Builds Wolverine Bones
Eat your heart out, Wolverine. The X-Men superhero won’t be the only one with metal fused into his skeleton if a new titanium foam proves suitable for replacing and strengthening damaged bones.Bone...
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China Withholds Valuable Materials Needed for Electric Cars From Japan
Unless China and Japan can sort out their shit and the exportation of rare earth elements can proceed into Japan, the future of electric cars could be thrown into jeopardy. Production of cars like the...
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Inside the Secret Science of Packing Material
We gadget freaks obsess over gear, big and small: cameras, phones, notebooks, desktops, home theater speakers, HDTVs, and much more. But how often do we pay attention to the technology surrounding our...
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