Technology

Corn-Based Biodegradable Food Packaging Material Keeps Harmful Microbes at Bay

Wastage and Eco-friendliness are the two major concerns within today’s food industry. Worldwide many people are starving, but a large amount of food gets discarded because it spoils before its consumption. Now researchers from Nanyang…

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Reusable Balloons Are Taking On the Satellites as a Cheap Alternative

Satellites are used for high-resolution aerial photos. But the satellites are highly expensive due to complex electronic and mechanical components. Launching satellites into orbit also require large rockets. Google Maps use images from several satellites. Now a new balloon system…

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It’s A Bus or it’s A Train…well, It’s both! World’s First Dual-Mode Vehicle Makes Its Debut in Japan

The world’s first dual-mode vehicle (DMV) that looks like a minibus has started operating in the town of Kaiyo in Tokushima Prefecture in Japan. From a bus to train, the whole transformation takes only 15 seconds While on-road,…

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Can This Eco-Friendly Sailboat Smash The World Speed Sailing Record?

The French innovation lab start-up Syroco’s Moonshot 1 is designed to break records. Moonshot I plans to pass the 80-knot mark (over 92 mph) in the next year. Syroco is planning to beat the Vestas Sailrocket…

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How The Product of a Food Company Threatens to Extend Chip Shortages to 2026

According to a press statement by Taiwanese board manufacturer Unimicron, chip shortages may persist until 2026, and the reason for that could be a little known dependence of the global manufacturing on the supply of…

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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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A Flying Saucer that could hover over the Moon one day

As seen in sci-fi movies, we generally believe flying saucers are the crafts used by aliens. But now, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a flying saucer to explore the moon. This flying…

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NASA’s Asteroid-Blasting Spacecraft DART Beams Back Its First Pictures from Space

Sixty-six million years ago, a mountain-sized asteroid slammed into Earth. The space rock is estimated to have been about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter. The impact was catastrophic, triggering tsunamis and firestorms that raged…

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World’s Thinnest Christmas tree is 30,000 Times Thinner than Kitchen Film

Graphene is no doubt a wonder material. It’s the world’s thinnest, ultra-lightweight, highly elastic, extremely flexible and yet it’s 200 times stronger than steel. Graphene takes the form of a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms,…

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Japan and the UK team up to develop a sixth Generation Fighter Jet Engine

Japan and the United Kingdom plan to work together on a new jet engine for their future sixth-generation fighter aircrafts. The work on the jet engine will be led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and…

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