Imagine, if you will, a microscopic submarine, motoring around inside your blood vessels, delivering medicine, or perhaps performing surgery all on its own. This is the sort of future theoretical physicist Richard Feynman used to fantasise about, and yet today, we’re still stuck on the swimming part. For a vessel at such a tiny
Month: October 2020
Scientists have created a super white paint that is the yin to Vantablack’s yang. While ultra black materials can today absorb more than 99.96 percent of sunlight, this new super white coat can reflect 95.5 percent of all the photons that hit it. Instead of warming up under direct light, objects painted with this
A major renewable energy project in Australia billed as the world’s largest solar farm in development has had its proposed location revealed. The AUD$20 billion facility – the heart of an ambitious electricity network called the Australia–ASEAN Power Link – will be built at a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory, roughly halfway between
Solar panels offer huge potential to move more people away from electricity generated from burning coal, and a new innovation devised by scientists stands to more than double the amount of light captured by conventional solar cells. In a new study, a team of scientists from the UK, Portugal, and Brazil discovered that etching