Scientists develop a method to convert Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) satellite data into detailed information about cloud cover properties, enhancing the ability to forecast available sunlight for solar power plants. The output of solar energy systems is highly dependent on cloud cover. While weather forecasting can be used toContinue Reading
Researchers have successfully demonstrated a new electronic refrigeration technology that can enable major leaps in the development of quantum computers. Present quantum computers require extremely complicated and large cooling infrastructure that is based on mixture of different isotopes of helium. The new electronic cooling technology could replace these cryogenic liquidContinue Reading
While previous studies suggested that the virus was passed to humans by pangolins, a Canadian team now claims that dogs were actually responsible for passing the virus to humans It’s one of the worst pandemics in history, and now scientists believe they may know how the coronavirus was spread to humans. TheContinue Reading
NASA’s new experimental supersonic X-plane is on a fast track to fly The plane, officially named X-59 QueSST in 2018 and often referred to as just X-59, was greenlit for final assembly during a critical design review in 2019. With this plane, NASA aims to create an ultraquiet craft that can travel over landContinue Reading
Our planet is heading towards a global environmental catastrophe and we must stay motivated to make a difference no matter what the future holds, e are living in a unique moment in history. This isn’t like a war or an economic recession, where you know things will probably be badContinue Reading
‘One could say that this planet gets rainy in the evening, except it rains iron’ Researchers have found an extreme, distant planet where it is thought to rain iron. One side of the planet, it is permanently day, and the world is hit by temperatures of up to 2400 degreesContinue Reading
Apps could be key to giving citizens their freedom back, but should not be used as a way to constrain that liberty in other ways, activists warn Phone apps and other technology are proving to be a key way for countries to come out of coronavirus lockdown – but also pose privacy and civil rights threatsContinue Reading
Our house will never be environmentally or architecturally perfect – but hopefully we can just make it a little better for the planet Let there be light. But let there not be too much of it, and let it not be unnecessary. The past few weeks, I’ve been trying toContinue Reading
It is quite surreal for us to see this whole situation unfolding on the planet below,’ NASA’s Jessica Meir says Astronauts currently residing aboard the International Space Station have braced for returning to Earth amid the coronavirus pandemic. When speaking to CBS News, astronaut Jessica Meir confessed she expects to feel more isolated upon returning to Earth during theContinue Reading
Devices ‘being designed and manufactured quickly by firms with little or no healthcare knowledge or manufacturing experience of medical devices’ The rush to create thousands of new ventilators for the NHS during the coronavirus outbreak could cost lives if staff make inadvertent mistakes due to different machine designs, experts haveContinue Reading