Image by Projekt_Kaffeebart from Pixabay Would your neighborhood supermarket ever stock an outdated carton of milk or unrefrigerated meat? More importantly, would you ever consume it? Despite the advancements in the logistics sector, food and medicines worth billions of dollars ...
A Teenager Invented a Body Heat Powered Flashlight
Makosinski and the flashlight A 15-year-old girl from Victoria, Canada designed a unique flashlight that does not require any battery and is powered solely by the heat of the user’s hand. Ann Makosinski, a Grade 10 student at St. Michaels ...
Smart Glass Controls Lighting and Temperature
Research Frontiers, a New York based research company, has developed a “Smart Glass” that can regulate the level of incoming light through windows. The company developed and patented a film technology called Suspended Particle Devices (SPD) that can vary the ...
Superconductor is Virtually Immune to Magnetism
Frank Hunte, a postdoctoral associate at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory’s Applied Superconductivity Center has discovered surprising magnetic properties in new superconductors that suggest they may have very powerful applications allowing for dramatically faster computers free of the burden ...