Engineering

An Error during Routine Supercomputer Backup Wipes 77 Terabytes of Research Data at Kyoto University

Kyoto University, one of Japan’s leading research institutes recently lost about 77 Terabytes of data. The data was accidentally lost due to an error in the backup system of its Hewlett-Packard supercomputer. The error occurred during a routine backup procedure.…

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Rocket scientists create robotic Pizzeria to churn out a pizza in just 45 Seconds

Three former SpaceX Engineers aim to revolutionize pizza making. They have created a pizza-making robot that bakes pizza from scratch in less than five minutes. The automated, touchless pizza-making robot fits into the back of…

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A’seedbot: a Tiny Robot That Cultivates The Desert

Desertification refers to the persistent degradation in dry-lands by unsustainable agricultural practices, mining, climate change, and general land overuse. According to United Nations within the next 10 years, 50 million people in the dry-lands will…

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How The Images Produced by JWST will Compare to Those of Humble

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched with success on December 24, 2021, and it won’t be long before the first images from it are beamed back to Earth. And while we know that Hubble’s…

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Scientists Finally Explain Why The London Millennium Bridge Wobbles

Since its opening in June 2000, the Millennium Bridge in London surprised and somewhat frightened pedestrians crossing it by demonstrating an unexpectedly large wobbling. This effect became even more intense when more people walked the…

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How To Find The Best WiFi Channel

Everyone has struggled with a bad WiFi connection at least once, and it can be pretty irritating when it keeps dropping out or not being as fast as you would like it to be. There…

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Researchers Create Energy-Saving Glass That Self-Adapts To Heating and Cooling Demand

Did you know windows are responsible for about 25-30% of the heat loss in a building energy use? So energy-efficient windows are an important consideration for both new and existing homes. Researchers at Nanyang Technological…

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Scientists Build a Space-Based Solar Power System to Transmit Energy to Earth

Trapping the Sun’s energy in space and beaming it back to Earth? It may sound like science fiction but it is happening now and will soon become a science fact. Many countries have been working…

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Samsung and IBM Present Game-Changing “Cube” Semiconductor Design

Samsung and IBM, two leaders in semiconductor design, have presented a ground-breaking new vertical transistor architecture that may turn processors from rectangular slabs to cubes. The idea of this novel approach is to increase the…

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Scientists Spot ‘Hidden Water’ Just Three Feet below Mars’ Grand Canyon

European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), has discovered a huge deposit of water on Mars. Researchers did this discovery at the bottom of the Valles Marineris, which is one of the planet’s deepest…

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