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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Completes Second Flight from Spaceport America

“Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or “the Company”) today announced the successful completion of the second SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America. This flight follows the completion of the first test flight from the Company’s commercial …

A breakthrough in developing multi-watt terahertz lasers

“Researchers at Lehigh’s Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics are using a new phase-locking technique to achieve record-high output power for terahertz lasers and reported the highest radiative efficiency for any single-wavelength semiconductor quantum cascade laser (QCL). Terahertz lasers could …

A one-way street for acoustic waves

“Device could improve quantum and classical communications If you can hear your neighbors through a shared wall, you better believe they can hear you too. This has nothing to do with your annunciation and everything to do with a fundamental …

A portable methanol detector

“ETH researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering have developed a device that detects low concentrations of methanol in alcoholic beverages. The results are displayed on a smartphone wirelessly in real time. Methanol can be lethal, even if …

A spreadable way to stabilise solid state batteries

“Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. Scientists at Chalmers and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China now present a new way of taking this promising concept closer to large-scale application. An interlayer, made of a …

A Startling Excess of Particle Detections by the XENON1T Could Point to New Physics

“A strange thing happened while running the most sensitive dark matter detector built to date, known as XENON1T. Having painstakingly accounted for all known sources of particles that could trigger the exquisitely sensitive apparatus, researchers confidently expected 232 triggering events …

A surprising quantum effect observed in a “large” object

“While conducting experiments on a layered metal, EPFL researchers witnessed something very surprising. The unexpected electron behavior they discovered could open up possibilities in the field of quantum computing. In the world of materials science, sometimes main discoveries can be …

Angling for underwater WiFi

“Scuba divers could send sea life shots in real time using an aquatic internet service. Aquatic internet that sends data through light beams could enable divers to instantly transmit footage from under the sea to the surface. The internet is …

Arduino 1.8.13 has been released

“Today, we are excited to announce the arrival of the Arduino IDE 1.8.13. Significant improvements include fixing the crash on Mac OS X with multiple monitor setups and resolving the recent package_index.json issue without other user intervention …

Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown

“Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected. A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown …