Scientists report the largest haul of confirmed planets – tallying more than a hundred — since NASA’s Kepler space telescope switched from staring into one patch of sky to detecting …read more Source:: Science
Day: July 18, 2016
A battery inspired by vitamins
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•Researchers have identified a whole new class of high-performing organic molecules, inspired by vitamin B2, that can safely store electricity from intermittent energy sources like solar and wind power in …read more Source:: Science
The birth of quantum holography: Making holograms of single light particles!
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•Until quite recently, creating a hologram of a single photon was believed to be impossible due to fundamental laws of physics. However, scientists have now successfully applied concepts of classical …read more Source:: Science
Partially automated cars provide enough benefits to warrant widespread adoption
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•Engineering researchers have concluded that the public could derive economic and social benefits today if safety-oriented, partially automated vehicle technologies were deployed in all cars. The researchers examined forward collision …read more Source:: Science
Researchers use acoustic voxels to embed sound with data
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•Researchers have developed a method to control sound waves, using a computational approach to inversely design acoustic filters that fit within an arbitrary 3-D shape while achieving target sound filtering …read more Source:: Science
Prometheus unbound: Open source cloud monitoring
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Prometheus, an open source system for monitoring and alerting a wide spectrum of enterprise IT events, including containers, released its 1.0 revision this week. It’s also the second product in what …read more Source:: OpenSource
Toyota throws weight behind Linux patent protection group
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•Toyota and other car companies have joined the Open Invention Network patent non-aggression community. …read more Source:: Linux