In a study published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, scientists led by Professor Hongxii Wang in collaboration with Professor Prashant Sonar of the QUT Materials Science Center showed that carbon nanodots can be used to improve the performance of perovskite solar cells. Let’s start with the most important question: how to make carbon…
Increasingly better and more accurate methods of DNA editing mean that more and more people let their imaginations run wild, trying to predict what bioengineering will allow us to do in the future. One of such people is the futurist Amy Webb, who recently wrote a book called The Genesis Machine in collaboration with geneticist…
Posted in journal Nature Materials An article about the work of scientists at UCLA introduces us to a new type of generator in the form of a platinum-catalyzed silicone polymer that generates energy by squeezing it. It differs from piezoelectric solutions at the very bottom, and could revolutionize the wearable gadget market. The magnetoelastic generator…
The Turing test tests the ability of machines to think in a human-like way. Alan Turing developed it in 1950, and now scientists intend to issue a simplified version. The Turing test, despite many years on the back of the neck, is still quite effective in judging whether it is a robot or a human….
The drone will fly to places where we will not send a manned vehicle because it would be too big or it would be too dangerous for the crew. However, drones still need human ground handling. The Israeli company Airobotics decided to eliminate this minor inconvenience. The solution designed by the startup is a special…
