Content for News

After cracking the “sum of cubes” puzzle for 42, mathematicians discover a new solution for 3

“The 21-digit solution to the decades-old problem suggests many more solutions exist. What do you do after solving the answer to life, the universe, and everything? If you’re mathematicians Drew Sutherland and Andy Booker, you go for the harder …

Agile underwater glider could quietly survey the seas

“Autonomous underwater vehicles have become versatile tools for exploring the seas. But they can be disruptive to the environment or have trouble traveling through confined spaces. Purdue University researchers are studying an alternative: highly maneuverable, low-cost underwater gliders that operate …

Boeing Loyal Wingman Uncrewed Aircraft Completes First Flight

“Boeing [NYSE:BA] Australia and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have successfully completed the first test flight of the Loyal Wingman uncrewed aircraft. The flight of the first military aircraft to be designed and manufactured in Australia in more …

Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel

“Astrophysicist at Göttingen University discovers new theoretical hyper-fast soliton solutions If travel to distant stars within an individual’s lifetime is going to be possible, a means of faster-than-light propulsion will have to be found. To date, even recent research …

Built to Last: New Copolymer Binder to Extend the Life of Lithium Ion Batteries

“Scientists develop a novel binder material that protects the graphite anode of Li-ion batteries from degradation even after 1700 cycles The capacity of lithium-ion batteries decreases over time partly due to the degradation of the binder that protects the graphite …

Cells as computers

“Scientists at ETH Zurich are working to develop information-​processing switching systems in biological cells. Now, for the first time, they have developed an OR switch in human cells that reacts to different signals. Biological cells might one day be …

Cheap, nontoxic carbon nanodots poised to be quantum dots of the future

“Tiny fluorescent semiconductor dots, called quantum dots, are useful in a variety of health and electronic technologies but are made of toxic, expensive metals. Nontoxic and economic carbon-based dots are easy to produce, but they emit less light. A new …

Contactless high performance power transmission

“A team led by Technical University of Munich (TUM) physicists Christoph Utschick and Prof. Rudolf Gross has succeeded in making a coil with superconducting wires capable of transmitting power in the range of more than five kilowatts contactless and with …

Denmark is building a fuel cell factory that offers 90% efficiency

“The factory from Haldor Topsøe is due to be completed in 2023. In the meantime, there is also close cooperation with the Saudi mega-project NEOM through the ‘Dutch connection.’ For the Danes, green energy is as natural as oil is …

Dresden Researchers Develop New Strategy For Efficient Oled Active Matrix Displays

“In a new publication in the scientific journal “Nature Materials”, researchers of the Institute for Applied Physics at TU Dresden introduce a novel device concept towards high-efficient and low-voltage vertical organic lighting-emitting transistors. With the new device architecture and fabrication …