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1 week ago | 
popularmechanics.com | Manasee Wagh
About 330 feet below the surface, a spherical shell of concrete rested on the floor of Lake Constance in Bodensee, Germany. Nearly 10 feet in diameter, the sphere was full of fresh lake water. Then, a pump-turbine and valve system attached to the sphere forced water out, creating a vacuum inside it. When engineers cut energy to the system, the pumping stopped, and the surrounding seawater rushed back in, spinning the turbine, and generating electricity.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Manasee Wagh
Scientists Are Sinking Concrete Batteries Underwater. An Energy Revolution Is Coming. Experiments with these big hollow spheres are proving an innovative source of energy storage that could power millions of homes. About 330 feet below the surface, a spherical shell of concrete rested on the floor of Lake Constance in Bodensee, Germany. Nearly 10 feet in diameter, the sphere was full …
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1 week ago | 
popularmechanics.com | Manasee Wagh
A new type of geothermal power plant has sprung up in the Nevada desert. It started with the drilling of two deep bore holes to a depth of about 1.5 miles through rocky sediment and sandtone, where temperatures were up to 380 degrees Fahrenheit. Then the drills dug sideways, tunneling a 3,250-foot horizontal passage between the two shafts. Next, engineers injected water into one of the holes at a pressure so high it cracked the hot rocks deep underground.
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1 week ago | 
esquire.com | Manasee Wagh
Unos científicos demuestran que todos los cuerpos humanos emiten un brillo invisibleUn equipo de científicos propone una nueva teoría según la cual la conciencia podría estar oculta en los campos eléctricos y magnéticos del cerebro¿El entrelazamiento cuántico en el cerebro genera conciencia?
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2 weeks ago | 
popularmechanics.com | Manasee Wagh
When you poop, your body sheds hundreds of billions of microbes from your intestines, including many “good bacteria” that help keep your gut—and the rest of you—running in top shape. In 1958, doctors used this knowledge to perform the first modern Fecal Microbiota Transplant: when a robust group of gut microbes from a healthy donor’s stool are transferred via a colonoscopy-type procedure to people with gut problems. The results worked wonders.
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2 weeks ago | 
gente.it | Manasee Wagh
Dai nanobot agli androidi, i robot che stanno cambiando il mondoDI Manasee Wagh e Tradotto da Luna SaracinoPubblicato: 20/05/2025Nanorobot Per quanto suoni fantascientifico, questi particolari robot sono in grado di camminare all’interno di un corpo umano dopo essere stati iniettati al suo interno con una normale siringa. Progettati alla Cornell University, questi minuscoli robot a quattro zampe potrebbero, un giorno, curare autonomamente lesioni interne e tumori.
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3 weeks ago | 
popularmechanics.com | Manasee Wagh
When you swallow a bite of pizza, microbes in your gut spring into action, helping to digest your food and deliver vital nutrients to your cells. But their influence goes even further. They directly affect your nervous system, shaping your mood. In fact, the trillions of microbial residents in your gut also communicate with your brain. Without them, we wouldn’t be who we are.
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1 month ago | 
popularmechanics.com | Manasee Wagh
Recently, Cambridge University scientists discovered the best candidate so far for extraterrestrial life on an ocean world, 120 light years away. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, they saw biosignatures in the atmosphere, dimethyl sulphide and dimethyl disulphide. We have these compounds on Earth too, because our bacteria and marine phytoplankton both produce them.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Manasee Wagh
Chewing ice has long been considered an example of poor manners, perhaps second only to sucking futilely at those last few drops at the bottom of your cup. Biting down on hard ice cubes can be both a noisy and a potentially painful experience. Maybe some people still think chewing ice is rude, but the invention of airy little ice nuggets has made the practice both irresistible—and useful at times. Scotsman Ice Systems invented the first nugget ice maker in 1981.
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1 month ago | 
esquire.com | Manasee Wagh
Una nueva teoría defiende que los extraterrestres infringen las leyes de la física para visitarnos en la TierraAlienígenas de la cuarta dimensión podrían estar invadiendo nuestro mundo sin que nos demos cuentaOvnis y extraterrestres en España: los casos más espectacularesEl Instituto SETI utiliza una red mundial de grandes radiotelescopios para buscar señales que puedan contener patrones indicativos de comunicación inteligente.
