Tesla saved the day in Australia after Loy Yang Power Station, a major coal plant, shut down unexpectedly without any warning. The ion batteries rose to the occasion by compensating for the energy deficiency. The batteries, created by Tesla, were capable of coming online within fractions of a second before the plant’s backup was able…
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Falcon Heavy Is Taking Musk’s Roadster To Outer Space
Elon Musk is known for coming up with ideas that sound a lot like fool’s gold. However, if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the years; you do not underestimate this man. Ever. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk floated the idea of sending his car to outer space earlier this month. The news was treated as…
Virgin Hyperloop One Reaches Another Milestone
Virgin Hyperloop One has set a new speed record of 240mph. This record was achieved as part of a testing session that placed the whole Hyperloop system to the test. According to the company, “All components of the system were successfully tested including the airlock, highly efficient electric motor, advanced controls and power electronics, custom…
Solar Bricks By Build Solar Will Power Entire Buildings by 2018
Introduction to Build Solar Build Solar is a spin out company that was created by Professor Tapas Mallick, world-leading renewable energy scientist, and Dr. Hasan Baig, an entrepreneur and solar scientist. Build Solar collaborated with a team of scientists and researchers from the University of Exeter to come up with an amazing solution for the…
Constructing Domes By Inflating Hardened Concrete
A new system has been created to develop an inflatable concrete structure using much fewer resources than ever before by researchers at TU Wien University. Thousands of years ago, concrete was used for the construction of glorious structures by ancient civilizations. Its usefulness has survived the test of time and it has turned out to…
Contrails And Why Do Some Airplanes Leave Them Behind
Well, you must have noticed that as some airplane fly through the sky, sometimes a trail of what seems to be smoke is left behind. However, these trails are mostly condensation and hence are called “contrails”, short for “condensation trails”. A great deal of water and some aerosols are ejected into the air as the…
3D Map of Space Dust in Milky Way Developed By Astronomers
Scientists in the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed a 3D map of our galaxy’s space dust. One of the objectives of this 3D space map is to plot every individual’s dust that exists in our world cautiously with a specific end goal to clear up the profound space view and…
Check Out The Advanced Methods Of Firefighting
The primitive days when firefighting used to be a process of pouring water onto a fire to extinguish raging flames are gone and firefighting has progressed now. It depends on advanced technologies in order to put out fires now. Civil engineers and firefighters have implemented new techniques to extinguish fires and save lives in recent…
Hanson Robotics Launches Professor Einstein Robot
Hanson Robotics has recently launched Professor Einstein Robot as a Kickstarter campaign which highlights the physical features of its muse skillfully. This 14.5-inch Professor Einstein Robot is capable of walking, talking and teaching science with lifelike facial expressions. This robot has been developed to be a loveable teacher full of entertaining anecdotes, deep knowledge and…
Harvard’s Exosuit Makes Walking Easier By 23%
The proof of concept of ‘Exosuit’ that is a wearable robot made of functional textiles, cable-based actuation, and a biologically-inspired control system was given in 2016 by the researchers at Harvard Wyss Institute. They directly target the ankle joints. The researchers have been working on a soft Exosuit for years and a recent study has…
This Coughing Billboard Reacts When It detects A Smoker
An interactive coughing billboard has been brought forward by a Swedish pharmacy that sniffs around and coughs loudly in order to encourage people to give up smoking. This coughing billboard has been created by an advertising agency ‘Åkestam Holst’ which can detect smokers and reacts to them by coughing aggressively. Featuring an annoyed handsome man,…
All Dutch Trains Run With Wind Power Now
All Dutch trains acquire 100 percent of their power by means of wind energy from Jan. 1, 2017. This decision comes from a 10- year energy deal, as per national railway company NS. At first, a date of 2018 was set by NS and electric company Eneco. Ton Boon, NS spokesman, stated, “So we in…
Airbus Is Testing Its Flying Car By The End of 2017
The notion of ‘flying car’ has been tried by several companies. Prototype after prototype has been created without any accomplishment over the years, which has left us all doubting whether the concept of a highway in the sky is at all conceivable. Several companies have taken a crack at creating an airborne passenger vehicle capable…
The First Mobile Kiss Messenger Called The Kissenger
You might have come across the situation when you get a kiss from your girlfriend over a Skype call and are expected to blow one back or when your mother makes the kissing sounds over the phone and you are not really sure how to react. Well, a solution to your problem has been discovered…
Levitation Of Large Objects Has Been Achieved For The First Time By Researchers
The levitation of a polystyrene sphere has been presented by researchers in recent times which is larger than the acoustic wavelength- a world first. By means of illustrations of small objects being levitated through ultrasonic waves, the notion behind acoustic levitation has been around for several years. A unique property of sound is the course…