Science & Technology

Physicists Say They’ve Created a Fluid With ‘Negative Mass’0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 20, 2017
Researchers in the US say they’ve created a fluid with negative mass in the lab… which is exactly as mind-bending as it sounds.

By David Aragorn
New infrared-emitting device could allow energy harvesting from waste heat 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 20, 2017
A new reconfigurable device that emits patterns of thermal infrared light in a fully controllable manner could one day make it possible to collect waste heat at infrared wavelengths and turn it into usable energy.

By David Aragorn
Could Moon Miners Use Railguns to Launch Ore into Space?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 19, 2017
The United States Navy fired a projectile at Mach 6 during a recent test with an electromagnetic railgun, suggesting that early ideas about using such tech to launch payloads from the lunar surface might not be so sci-fi after all.

By David Aragorn
Researchers link robots into surveillance teams 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 19, 2017
If you were monitoring a security camera and saw someone set down a backpack and walk away, you might pay special attention – especially if you had been alerted to watch that particular person. According to Cornell researchers, this might be a job robots could do better than humans, by communicating at the speed of light and sharing images.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Are Getting Closer to Understanding Where All the Antimatter Has Gone 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 18, 2017
You and me, we’re matter. Everyone you know is matter. Everything on Earth, spare a few particles, is matter. Most of the things in space are matter. But we don’t have convincing reasons why there should be so much more matter than antimatter. So where’s all the antimatter?

By David Aragorn
Scientists Witnessed DNA Protecting Itself From Radiation 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 14, 2017
DNA protects itself from damage naturally, and scientists are hoping to gain insight into how the process works in order to achieve breakthrough treatments for cancer and other diseases that arise from the breakage and mutation of DNA.

By David Aragorn
DNA double helix structures crystals 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 11, 2017
Method developed for DNA programmed material synthesis

By David Aragorn
This Robot Works 500% Faster Than Humans, and It Puts Thousands of Jobs at Risk 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 11, 2017
The robot, created by New York firm Construction Robotics, highlights the issues of employee displacement caused by automation in the construction industry.

By David Aragorn
Laser weapons edge toward use in US military 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 10, 2017
A sci-fi staple for decades, laser weapons are finally becoming reality in the US military, albeit with capabilities a little less dramatic than at the movies.

By David Aragorn
This Strange Light Particle Behaviour Challenges Our Understanding of Quantum Theory 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 7, 2017
It’s even spookier than we predicted.

By David Aragorn