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 liquid mixtures and enable miniaturization of […]

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 land faster than the speed of […]

‘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 degrees Celsius. That leads the metals […]

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 threats that could linger long after […]

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 the pandemic instead of how she’s […]