The Renaissance Blueprint That Wouldn’t Work—Until Now
For centuries, Leonardo da Vinci’s “aerial screw” was a symbol of genius ahead of its time — brilliant, but doomed to fail. The sketch, drawn around 1480, showed a spiral rotor meant to lift a platform into the air. It looked like a corkscrew made of linen, reed,…
In a groundbreaking development for internet security, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover have unveiled a new quantum encryption technique that promises to make online communications unbreakable. This innovative approach leverages the power of light and color to enhance quantum key distribution, a crucial component for securing data in the face of emerging quantum computing threats.…
The energy of a nucleus can be tapped in two ways: by splitting large nuclei into smaller ones (fission) or by combining small nuclei into larger ones (fusion). The first method yields atomic or nuclear (fission) energy, while the second provides fusion energy, which is essentially stellar power. This is the way the sun and…
NASA James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that the universe is expanding at an unexpected rate, adding to the ongoing debate among scientists about potential causes related to dark energy and dark matter. New data from Webb validates previous findings from the Hubble Space Telescope, indicating that the universe's expansion rate is approximately 8% faster…