Scientists Built a Tiny Battery Out of Nuclear Waste That You'll Never Have to Recharge
Scientists use light-emitting crystals and solar panels to turn the latent energy in nuclear waste into microbatteries.
China Is Building a Solar Station in Space That Could Generate Practically Endless Power
The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...
An Unimaginable New Laser Has the Energy of 1 Million Nuclear Plants
Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...
Archaeologists Found 1.5-Million-Year-Old Bone Tools That Show Early Humans Were Unexpected Geniuses
The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.
The U.S. Is Already Fighting the World’s First AI War—And China Is Winning
AI’s role in warfare is not just about who has the best autonomous weapons—it’s also about who can use AI to make decisions ...
How to Pick the Right Motor Oil for Your Car
Let’s explain all of those confusing numbers, letters and terms to help you choose the right oil for your car.
Is a Room-Temperature Superconductor Physically Possible? Scientists Say Yes—the Dream Is Alive
“This discovery tells us that room-temperature superconductivity is not ruled out by fundamental constants ,” University of ...
Cylinder Deactivation Can Save You Gas. But What If It Can’t Save Your Engine?
Cylinder deactivation temporarily disables select cylinders in low-demand driving scenarios to save you some fuel. This ...
A New Supersolid Born From Light Pushes the Limits of Physics
With properties of a superfluid but with a crystalline structure, supersolids have previously only been observed in ultracold ...
Scientists Built a Lightning Ball of Energy To Catch Distant Radiation
Detecting radiation is a fundamental necessity for national security, but doing so effectively and at a distance is a tall ...
Scientists Found a Human-Neanderthal Hybrid Who Lived Long After His People Went Extinct
Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed Lapedo Child remains shows that remains of a child with both human and ...