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Invention of glass that can generate electric current
With a laser etched surface, tellurite glass generates an electric current in response to ultraviolet and visible light.
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Computer science
Even if you cover your webcam, hackers can still spy on you as usual
Ambient light sensors in smartphones may pose unwanted privacy risks.
Space science
Discovered the fastest rotating planet in the universe, takes only 0.0014 seconds to make one revolution!
PSR J1748−2446ad is about 18,000 light-years from Earth, currently the fastest rotating object in the known universe.
Science story
Deadly hidden danger in the 'rainbow ice cave' in the US
Some photos taken inside the ice cave, showing the ice covered with a magical light of rainbow colors, made many people fascinated. However, experts have just had to war…
Alien
Proof James Webb is capable of capturing alien 'houses'
A team of scientists has identified in the database that the James Webb super telescope sent back to Earth the first direct image of an extrasolar planet.
Oceanography
Discovering super rare fish in the sea
Drum-eye fish, living 600-800m above the surface of the water (called the twilight zone or mesozoic), fish with a transparent head that encases the eyes upward like mesm…
Space science
How science hears the creepy sound of a black hole
Contrary to the notion that the universe cannot have sound because sound waves cannot travel in a vacuum, we can indeed
Science story
What color is the mirror? 99% of people get it wrong!
Some people may think that a mirror has no color or that it is the color of whatever you look at it.
Science story
If sound is as fast as the speed of light, what happens?
If sound is as fast as the speed of light, it can lead to unexpected disaster.
Science story
Why are planets suspended in space?
Perhaps many people in their youth looked up at the sky and saw the shining stars, they thought: Will they fall one day? What if it fell and hit the Earth?
Scientific works
When fireflies wait forever but night never comes: Light pollution is slowly killing the planet
While many species of fireflies have adapted quite well to light pollution, some of their other relatives are struggling to reproduce and are in serious danger.
Discover science
Breakthrough discoveries about roundfin fish
Scientists have discovered the special properties of roundfin fish, a fish that lives on the bottom near shore in many areas in the northern Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
Scientific works
The James Webb and Hubble Telescopes: A Thoughtful Comparison!
James Webb's lens can see much more detail and go back in time than any other telescope in the world
New technology
The absolute advantage of light quantum chips: Shorten 9,000 years of computation to 36 millionths of a second
If today's most powerful supercomputers need 9,000 years to solve this problem, light quantum chips only need a few millionths of a second.
Space science
Hundreds of distant galaxies seen through the James Webb . telescope
An image just captured by the James Webb telescope's Delicate Guide Sensor provides a fascinating view of distant galaxies in the universe in infrared light.