One of the top 25 finalist in the Electrolux Lab competition invented fridge, which stores your food in gel-like material. Do you know what is on the first place. when it comes to the biggest energy suckers? Air conditioners. Do you know what is on second place? If you guessed...
Solar-powered plane took off from Abu Dhabi on Monday, March 9, 2015 morning Solar Impulse 2. That is the name of the first solar-powered plane which took off at 7.12 am (4.12 am GMT) from Al-Bateen airport and headed to Muscat, Oman. The plane will land there later on today...
World’s smallest piezoelectric generator is only one atom wide On October 15th, 2014 team, which involved researches and engineers, both from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology, revealed, that they have made the first thinnest electric generator. This was published online, in Nature, by lead author Wenzhou Wu...
Generating electricity from oceans is one of the oldest and hardest renewable-energy challenges. China is the latest country to try to bring the technology to life. According to the Wall Street Journal’s estimates, the rising superpower has invested about 160 billion dollars into tidal and wave technology and related projects....
The first steps towards interstellar travel have been taken, but the stars are very far away. Voyager 1 is about 17 light-hours distant from Earth and is traveling with a velocity of 0.006 percent of light speed, meaning it will take about 17,000 years to travel one light-year. Fortunately, the...
