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Believe it or not, scientists create world's thinnest lens and it is 2,000 times thinner than human hair
The finished lens is 6.3 nanometres in size as compared to the previous smallest lens which was 50 …
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SpaceX is about to launch a remarkable atomic clock for NASA that may change how we explore space
The atoms are ionized to strip away one or more outer electrons, which enables them to be trapped a…
Dave Mosher
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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Inside the tech industry's 'broletariat revolution' against the media
Tech elites hate the media. So they're taking a page from Fox News.
Insider Inc.
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Stunning photos of the night sky in one of the darkest places on Earth will make you want to visit New Zealand ASAP
The Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve is the second-largest in the world. Located in …
Rebecca Strong
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Moon meteorite in the Western Sahara contains an new mineral that could explain what's happening in the Earth's mantle
A team of European researchers has discovered a new high-pressure mineral named donwilhelmsite in t…
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Best Bluetooth speakers with FM radio in India
We consider each Bluetooth speaker’s design, audio output and durability. As these are Bluetooth s…
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UV LEDs to disinfect surfaces against coronavirus: Study
"One major application is in medical situations -- the disinfection of personal protective equipme…
PTI
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A power problem aboard the Navy's $13 billion supercarrier left it unable to launch planes for days
The Ford's Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) unexpectedly failed during at-sea testing…
Ryan Pickrell
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An experiment that solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein just got up to 50% more powerful by squeezing light
By squeezing photons on the quantum level, the instrument ensures the particles produce fewer tiny …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Stardust trapped deep within the ocean reveals a 2.6-million-year-old mystery
According to Shawn Bishop, a physicist at the Technical University of Munich in Germany and coautho…
Ali Sundermier
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Dead people and pets are being forged into sparkling blue diamonds - here's how the process works
While at least five companies offer a "memorial diamond" service, Algordanza in Switzerland is one …
Dave Mosher
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Here's what the images that just won the Nobel prize in chemistry look like and why they're so transformative
The technique has existed since the 1930s, but many scientists didn't think it could be used to loo…
Kevin Loria
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Mars destroys tires - so NASA reinvented the wheel by giving it a memory
"With super-elastic materials, what you're doing is ... storing the energy of deformation in the [c…
Dave Mosher
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Here’s how Indian billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla may take the world of business by storm
Indian billionaire Birla may enter into the production of carbon fiber, which is a high-strengt…
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Physicists Make Big Leap In Quantum Teleportation
Like a game of billiards, a third photon was sent to hit the first photon in the optical fibre obli…
AFP
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Leonardo DiCaprio just invested in a startup that claims it can 'grow' real diamonds in weeks - here's the science behind it
In HPHT, a carbon seed crystal is placed inside a device called a press with a metal solvent and su…
Tanya Lewis
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Scientists Create A New Type Of 'Lightsaber' Matter
Normally light doesn't interact with other light - when two lasers collide, nothing happens. By coo…
Jennifer Welsh
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Scientists are obsessed with this incredible material, but have no clue what to do with it yet
To make this possible Palacios' lab is designing a new 3-D printer that uses graphene as its ink - …
Julia Calderone
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Fractals are math's trippiest concept, and they get even weirder when used to solve a puzzle involving the British coast
Fractals like the Koch snowflake have lots of weird mathematical properties. For example, each iter…