Phase-changing next generation memory measures time in picoseconds
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Original press release was issued by the NIH, written by Carrie Wolinetz. What
Traffic jams are a pain, especially in the mornings when all of humanity joins together for a mutual cause – cursing the congested roads. Travelling by car is usually deemed more effective. But given the right circumstances a bus can hold the high ground and allow passengers to not only move at “lightning speed” compared to frustrated drivers, but also become more ecological means of transportation.
Imagine the morning after a superb Friday’s night out spent in a good company. The wake-up call can be, besides the potential headache, the necessity to drive to a nearby store or to go pick up a family member from an airport. “Safety comes first”, the motto embedded in your head, pops up as soon as you reach out for the car keys. But are you really safe to sit behind the wheel? You need some proof.
The Earth is our home, there is no denying that. It has served us as a shelter for millions of years, providing all the proper conditions and means there are to preserve the human species. With so many factors to be treasured, humans havent been known to hold the planet in such a high regard, contributing to worldwide threats like global warming by burning the fossil fuels in power plants and car engines.
Daily expenses and the necessity to pay bills belong to the least popular parts of an otherwise fine day. Most of the time, the products and services that we pay for during the day have a clear price tag. But other expenses like electric energy consumption in a given household remain somewhat hidden.
Quick rundown of things you may have missed last week: Web-based software improves
“The bigger, the better”. Today’s world is obsessed with this idiom and as such, it can be seen all around us. Automobile manufacturers make bulkier cars, engineers constantly strive to build taller buildings. But when it comes to computers and computer chips in particular, the opposite is true. Society’s ever growing demand for information sharing is loosely linked with how big, or rather how small the computer chips are.
What happens when you fuse a web browser together with a social media? You get RUMPEL. The first of its kind web browser promises to save us time with smarter browsing, allows us to be in control of our very own private “personal data palette” stored all across the internet, thus being beneficial to ourselves and not just the businesses willing to harvest it.
The world of renewable energy accomplished a monumental feat. Solar Impulse 2, a solar-powered aeroplane became the first manned plane of its kind that successfully completed round-the-world flight. The final stretch of its 23 days long journey in the air ended at the place where it all began, Abu Dhabi on Tuesday 26 July. A plane powered only by sun, requiring no fossil fuel, able to tour the globe may sound a bit like science fiction, but two Swiss pilots, Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg done the imaginable.
