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Nuclear Fusion Reactor ‘KSTAR’ Sustained a 20-Seconds Operation

‘KSTAR’, the South Korean tokamak-type nuclear fusion reactor has just broken its own record for the longest sustained high-temperature plasma, taking it to a whopping 20 seconds. The previous was eight seconds achieved in March…

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Dry Heat Sterilization: Static-Air vs. Forced-Air

Sterilization is critical to many products. It ensures that they are safe, consumable, and healthy. The FDA regulates four forms of sterilization for medical and pharmaceutical items. Dry heat is one of them. Dry heat…

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The Electric “Taycan” Was Porsche’s Best-Selling Car in the UK Last Month

Oh, how times change! Porsche, one of the most historically important and successful car makers in history, who has been leading the developments in internal combustion engineering with creations like the “boxer” engine, is now…

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Self-Watering Soil That May Revolutionize Farming

With rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns, heatwaves and droughts are increasing at an alarming rate around the world. So the researchers from the University of Texas have created a new type of soil that…

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Self-Navigating Autonomously-Driven Balloons Are a Thing Now

If there’s one thing that any artificial intelligence hates to handle, that would be a chaotic environment with numerous competing factors that also change rapidly. And if there’s one thing that encapsulates all of the…

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A Swiss Drone Has Finally Inspected Reactor 5 in Chernobyl

Almost 35 years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant catastrophe which involved the explosion of reactor no. 4, the complex decommissioning process is still ongoing. At the time of the accident, reactors no. 5 and…

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Self-Healing Concrete Could Help Manage the “Aging Bridges” Problem in the U.S.

The U.S. is entering an “aging bridges” crisis, with 39% of a total of 614,387 bridges across the country being older than their design lifetime, most of which still stand in service only thanks to…

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All-Electric Air Taxi Service Is to Take-Off in Florida Soon

‘Lilium’, a Munich-based developer of electrically powered personal air vehicles is preparing for its first-ever actual “vertiport” in Orlando, Florida. The Germans had awed the world back in 2017 when their concept electrical aircraft named…

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Genetically Engineered Silkworms Produce Human “E-Selectin”

Silkworms have been helping humans produce high-quality fabrics for at least 5 000 years now, while in many places in the world their pupae are considered a delicacy. Thanks to a group of scientists at…

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Anti-Reflective Glass Set to Take Solar Panel Efficiency to New Levels

A French start-up named ‘Edgehog’ has developed and recently presented an anti-reflective glass that can increase the annual energy production of solar panels by 6% to 12%. Simply put, Edgehog’s glass lets most of the…

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Author Archives: Bianca

Nuclear Fusion Reactor ‘KSTAR’ Sustained a 20-Seconds Operation

Dry Heat Sterilization: Static-Air vs. Forced-Air

The Electric “Taycan” Was Porsche’s Best-Selling Car in the UK Last Month

Self-Watering Soil That May Revolutionize Farming

Self-Navigating Autonomously-Driven Balloons Are a Thing Now

A Swiss Drone Has Finally Inspected Reactor 5 in Chernobyl

Self-Healing Concrete Could Help Manage the “Aging Bridges” Problem in the U.S.

All-Electric Air Taxi Service Is to Take-Off in Florida Soon

Genetically Engineered Silkworms Produce Human “E-Selectin”

Anti-Reflective Glass Set to Take Solar Panel Efficiency to New Levels

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