Scientists Found a Way to Make Synthetic Gasoline Out of Thin Air
Day-to-night temperature changes could reclaim CO2 into synthetic fuels. Chinese scientists have used nanoplates that generate power from temperature changes to create synthetic methanol, which could be a clean way of removing CO2 from the atmosphere, as well as generating e-fuels. For more, check out The Drive story.
Earth spinning faster now than at any time in the past half century
A ‘negative leap second’ may be required so that atomic clocks can align correctly with the turning world. Scientists around the world have noted that the Earth has been spinning on its axis faster lately—the fastest ever recorded. Several scientists have spoken to the press about the unusual phenomenon, with some pointing out that this…
Sony Announces Expansion of 360 Reality Audio Ecosystem
Sony today announced the expansion of its 360 Reality Audio services and product offerings. Introduced in 2019, Sony’s 360 Reality Audio makes it possible for artists and creators to produce music by mapping sound sources such as vocals, chorus and instruments with positional information and placing them within a spherical space. This revolutionary musical experience,…
Sony Announces New 8K LED, 4K OLED and 4K LED Models with New “Cognitive Processor XR”
Sony Europe announced the first cognitive intelligence televisions. The new BRAVIA XR televisions include MASTER Series Z9J 8K LED, MASTER Series A90J and A80J OLED, and X95J and X90J 4K LED. Powered by the Cognitive Processor XR, the brain of the new BRAVIA XR, the televisions use a completely new processing method that goes beyond…
Is the cloud headed underwater? Why Microsoft thinks it’s possible
Underwater data centers? In the spring of 2018, team members from Project Natick deployed a massive tube filled with nitrogen in 117 feet of water off Scotland’s Orkney Islands. Inside were racks of running computer servers that team members monitored for the next two years. They wanted to see if a controlled environment, free of…
NASA scientists and partners achieve long-distance ‘quantum teleportation’
For the first time, a team of scientists and researchers have achieved sustained, high-fidelity ‘quantum teleportation’. quantum teleportation is a ‘disembodied’ transfer of quantum states from one location to another. the quantum teleportation of a qubit is achieved using quantum entanglement, in which two or more particles are inextricably linked to each other. if an…
Apple working on a self-driving car?
Apple is reportedly working on a new product, unlike anything seen before. Project Titan is the purported code name of Apple’s not-so-secret car division. A few years ago, several rumors said Apple was developing its own self-driving car tech, but those reports died down. Apple had other priorities. Reuters has just resurfaced that rumor, saying…
Giant black hole keeps evading detection, scientists can’t explain it
How is this possible? An enormous black hole keeps slipping through astronomers’ nets. The big galaxy at the core of the cluster Abell 2261, which lies about 2.7 billion light-years from Earth, should have an even larger central black hole — a light-gobbling monster that weighs as much as 3 billion to 100 billion suns,…
Happy Holidays!
With the holidays fast approaching, I do not know how many times I will get to post. So I will take the time now to wish you and yours Happy Holidays.
Astronomers May Have Detected The First Radio Signal From an Exoplanet
Dips in the light levels of a star can betray the presence of orbiting planets. “Observing planetary auroral radio emission is the most promising method to detect exoplanetary magnetic fields,” explained Cornell University astronomer Jake Turner and colleagues in their new paper, “the knowledge of which will provide valuable insights into the planet’s interior structure,…