Category: On the cutting edge of science

Advanced power ICs and RF amplifiers use wide bandgap semiconductors such as gallium nitride (GaN). China controls the lion’s share of the world’s gallium supplies, and Beijing’s recent restrictions on…

The most hated device by the vast majority of the population of our planet is, undoubtedly, the alarm clock. It’s hard to say what Nintendo was hoping for when it…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry between David Baker of the University of Washington and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google Deep…

Scientists’ ideas about life on Mars have changed dramatically in less than 100 years of studying it. The Red Planet was first considered simply harsh for life, like the Sahara…

A number of neural networks, machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence are based on profound discoveries in the field of physics, as announced today by representatives of the Nobel Committee…

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) using the ALMA radio telescope have made a surprising discovery that challenges our understanding of the evolution of galaxies. Just 700 million years…

Today, Mars technology uses lithium batteries. These are excellent sources of energy, but they are adversely affected by the extreme temperatures that often occur on the exposed surface of the…

Yesterday at 17:52 Moscow time, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Space Force station at Cape Canaveral, Florida, sending the European interplanetary station Hera (“Hera”) onto its departure…

The world’s largest thermonuclear reactor, JT-60SA, created as part of a joint project between Japan and Europe, managed to achieve a plasma volume of 160 m³. To date, this achievement…

Scientists from the University of Toronto have discovered further evidence of a counterintuitive perception of the quantum world. In a series of experiments, it was proven that under certain conditions,…