A team at the Technical University of Denmark has managed to blast 43 terabits of data down a fiber cable in a single second, setting a new world record for the fastest ever data transfer speed. For reference, that's 1GB of data in just 0.2 milliseconds. These records tend to be broken every few years... Continue Reading →

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have successfully produced perovskite solar cells using a spray-painting process. Experts from the University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering have previously used the spray-painting method to produce solar cells using organic semiconductors—but using perovskite is a major step forward. Efficient organometal halide... Continue Reading →

MacGyver could make a rocket-powered harpoon gun/zip line out of some moth balls, cleaning fluid, rope, pulley, and an old telescope. Robots can't do that. But hey, neither can you. What you can do is use objects in your environment to help you complete tasks that you wouldn't otherwise be able to do on your... Continue Reading →

John Polimeno's life has taken a bit of a turn. A few years back, he owned and operated his own construction business. This summer, he's touring the country on a bus promoting Finding Rover, a new smartphone app he's created. Why the 180? Blame it on his love of dogs. Not too long ago, he... Continue Reading →

When not being used to study nuclear fusion, the world's largest laser can be found crushing diamonds, to study planetary formation, of course. Well, that's a little bit misleading. The world's largest laser and 175 other lasers combined to exert 50 million times the amount of earth's atmospheric pressure on a single diamond, to be... Continue Reading →

At the centre of this new technique are tiny blocks made from ‘metamaterials’ - a special type of artificial material engineered to have properties unlike anything found in nature. These nanoparticle building blocks are just a few billionths of a metre wide, and researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK have figured out... Continue Reading →

Bogota-based design firm Lemur Studio has designed a life-saving boot insert which can detect landmines from a distance of 6.5 feet. SaveOneLife was created with soldiers in mind, but civilians and farmers living in areas littered with active mines can also benefit from this groundbreaking technology. The boot sole acts as a metal detector with... Continue Reading →

Sometimes the only way to beat your demons is to face them, even if it’s in a simulated reality. To help people overcome drug addiction, researchers at the University of Houston’s Graduate School of Social Work are building hyper-realistic virtual worlds to recreate situations that trigger cravings for nicotine, alcohol, weed, and now, hard drugs... Continue Reading →

Sam Smith is a 12-year-old game developer. That’s rather young, sure, but that’s not even the strangest part. Sam makes games instead of going to school. Spacepants is Sam’s latest game, available for $1 on iOS and Android devices. It’s a brutally tough “endless runner” — like Jetpack Joyride or Flappy Bird — set in... Continue Reading →

The idea has already been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Electrolux Design Lab contest. Luna is an electrostatic spherical washing machine. 'The idea is not to put the clothes into a washing machine, but rather, the washing machine between the dirty clothes,' says Juan Camilo Restrepo Villamizar of Colombia Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, who... Continue Reading →