Dark Energy understanding is slowly growing. Scientists have taken another step toward understanding dark energy by peering through a cosmic cloud of water vapor billions of light-years away from Earth. For more, check out this Newsweek/MSN story.
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America Races to Avert the ‘Quantum Apocalypse’
The U.S. is racing to research cryptography designed to safeguard against future quantum computer attacks. Quantum computing uses the properties of quantum mechanics to perform computations far more complex than what modern supercomputers can achieve. While quantum computers may have the ability to solve a multitude of problems, including cracking encryption in a fraction of…
This Flying Car Is Now Officially Approved to Take to the Skies
Next stop…the Jetsons! We’ve been promised flying cars for decades now, yet our four-wheeled vehicles are still stuck in the ground. But a Slovakian company is hoping to change all of that very soon. Klein Vision’s “AirCar” was recently issued a Certificate of Airworthiness by the Slovak Transport Authority—meaning it has the official OK to…
New lightweight material is stronger than steel
MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic, and…can be easily manufactured in large quantities. The new material is a two-dimensional polymer that self-assembles into sheets, unlike all other polymers, which form one-dimensional, spaghetti-like chains. Until now, scientists had believed it was impossible to induce…
Earth’s Insides Are Cooling Faster Than We Thought…
…and it could mess things up. Because Earth’s interior is still cooling, and will continue to do so, this means that eventually the interior will solidify, and the geological activity will cease, possibly turning Earth into a barren rock, akin to Mars or Mercury. New research has revealed that may happen sooner than previously thought….
Strange Object found in the Milky Way
An object found in the Milky Way is ‘unlike anything astronomers have seen’. Australian researchers have discovered a strange spinning object in the Milky Way they say is unlike anything astronomers have ever seen. For more, check out this AFP/MSN story.
Google Just Gave You the Best Reason Yet to Finally Quit Using Chrome
A change in cookies is their reason… because Google–like every advertising platform–uses cookies to know what types of ads to show you, getting rid of them was complicated. Actually, it wasn’t really that complicated for Google, which doesn’t even need third-party cookies to know what you’re interested in, since it literally runs the website where…
Solar System Exists Inside a Giant, Mysterious Void, And We Finally Know Why
The Solar System floats in the middle of a peculiarly empty region of space. A team of astronomers led by the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) has now mapped the Local Bubble with the highest precision yet – and found that the Local Bubble was likely carved out of the interstellar medium by…
James Webb Space Telescope reaches new home
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its new home a million miles from Earth. After a nail-biting 29 days of travel and ultra-precise deployments, the James Webb Space Telescope fired its thrusters one more time Monday to reach its final parking spot a million miles from Earth. For more, check out this USA Today…
New cybersecurity service uses entanglement to generate cryptographic keys
Hello Quantum World! Quantinumm’s software company Cambridge Quantum announced a new way to provide cryptographic keys that uses Honeywell’s H1, entanglement and an API. Quantum Origin can run on any quantum computer and is designed to integrate into existing cybersecurity solutions. For more, check out this TechRepublic story.