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Specially prepared paper can bend, fold or flatten on command

22 Aug 2018 5:24 PM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

One of the oldest, most versatile and inexpensive of materials — paper — seemingly springs to life, bending, folding or flattening itself, by means of a low-cost actuation technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. A thin layer of conducting thermoplastic, applied to common paper with an inexpensive 3D printer or even painted … Read more

Million fold increase in the power of waves near Jupiter’s moon Ganymede

7 Aug 2018 6:51 PM by Bhupendra Singh Chundawat

Listening to electro-magnetic waves around the Earth, converted to sound, is almost like listening to singing and chirping birds at dawn with a crackling camp fire nearby. This is why such waves are called chorus waves. They cause polar lights but also high-energy ‘killer’ electrons that can damage spacecraft. In a recent study to be … Read more