Plastic waste has long been treated as one of the world’s most persistent environmental problems. Bottles pile up in landfills, drift into oceans, and linger for decades without breaking down. Yet a surprising shift in thinking is beginning to take shape. Scientists are no longer looking at plastic purely as waste. Instead, it seems they…
Revolutionising the synthesis of graphene as an alternative to conventional graphite for lithium-ion batteries, UNSW Sydney scientists have created a highly efficient and cost-effective method for transforming low-value peanut hull waste stockpiles into high-quality graphene for batteries through innovative flash Joule heating technology. The process produces super-conductive graphene nanomaterials in just seconds and could dramatically…
NASA is keeping an eye on near-Earth objects. One such object is a small asteroid called 2026 FB. This asteroid is expected to pass close to the Earth today. The asteroid is small in size, but it is still keeping the attention of experts. To observe the movement of such objects, ground-based telescopes and radars…
The history of the first plant on Earth is not as simple as the identification of a particular species of plants, but it is a long history of evolution that started in the water and changed the planet over time. According to scientists, the earliest ancestors of plants were not trees or flowers, but microscopic…
A £1 million research project led by the University of Sheffield is developing a new generation of “smart” drug delivery vehicles that could deliver chemotherapy directly to post-surgical sites in patients with glioblastoma, a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer, while also opening new treatment possibilities for severe inflammatory skin diseases and difficult fungal…
At first glance, the soap foam appears to be quite simple: it is light, airy, and most often white. However, there is a great deal going on behind the scenes, with many tiny bubbles and a great amount of physics and light. If you have ever noticed that a solution of soap appears to be…
Lockheed Martin designed NASA’s Quesst mission. An experimental aircraft called X-59 is being tested as a significant part of this mission. It will attempt to fly at a speed of Mach 1.4 (approximately 925 miles per hour) and create a much quieter sonic thump rather than the normal loud sonic boom that shakes windows all…
Crescent moon (Image source: Canva) The crescent moon is one of the most recognisable things in the night sky. At dusk or dawn, a lot of people have seen a thin, curved line of light in the sky. This shape is caused by the positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. The Moon doesn’t make…
A century ago, in a quiet cabbage patch in Auburn, Massachusetts, something happened. Dr Robert H. Goddard, a Clark University Physics professor, fired up a rocket powered by liquid fuel. It flew for a mere 2.5 seconds and landed in a cabbage patch 184 feet (56 meters) as reported by NASA. This little test, on…
Image Credit: AI Generated Imagine a time when the blue planet looked nothing like it does today. A time when the oceans were frozen over, the continents were locked in a thick sheet of ice, and the sun reflected off a world almost entirely white. This is not science fiction, but a real time in…