Cheaper, lighter and more energy-dense: The promise of lithium-sulphur batteries
The main attraction is that they can store much more energy than a similar battery using current lithium-ion (Li-ion) technology....
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A good egg: robot chef trained to make omelettes
A team of engineers have trained a robot to prepare an omelette, all the way from cracking the eggs to...
A Dead Woman in Iran Wakes Up in Mortuary
A 42-year-old Iranian woman whose heart stopped following a cardiac arrest has come back from the dead after 18 hours....
These Most Voted Images by NASA are breathtaking
NASA Earth Observatory held a Tournament Earth voting campaign to choose the most beautiful image from the “image of earth”...
Antarctic ice sheets is retreating up to 50 metres per day
The ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic coastline retreated at speeds of up to 50 metres per day at the end...
USB software security tool catches 26 bugs across operating systems
EPFL researchers have developed a new tool called USBFuzz, which they have already used to detect 26 vulnerabilities in the USB driver stacks of widely used operating systems including Linux, Windows, and macOS.
First pilot for the Google and Apple-based decentralised tracing app
As of today, employees at EPFL, ETH Zurich, the Army, and some hospitals and cantonal administrations can download the digital proximity tracing application “SwissCovid”. This large-scale pilot, the first in the world using the OS updates from Apple and Google, paves the way for public availability by mid-June.
Natural mosquito fungus ‘could block spread of malaria’
By Fiona Broom A fungus that lives in malaria-carrying mosquitoes could boost global efforts to control the disease, which kills...
U.S., China engage in proxy battles to win global supremacy
With a barrage of sharp rhetoric and the trade war now back on again, the United States and China are...
7 SEO Tips for Content Writing
It has become inevitable to take Search Engine Optimization (SEO) into account when writing content for the web. You need...
The food and water systems astronauts will need to travel to places like Mars
On the International Space Station (ISS), astronauts are able to get resupplies from Earth from cargo spacecraft visiting the space...
The science of tickling: why you can’t tickle yourselve?
The first thing to understand about our inability to self-tickle is that it’s just one example of a widespread phenomenon:...