Why honey never get spoilt?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHONEY is a beautiful gold-coloured sweetener. Honey is full of nutrients, active enzymes as well as beneficial natural compounds. Honey is used in many homes as natural remedies to treat [ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ] common ailments such as cough, cold and sore throat. Many archaeologists have discovered preserved thousand-year-old pots of honey. Honey in its natural form has very low moisture […]
What is Titan?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTITAN is orbiting near to planet Saturn. It is Saturn’s largest moon and also known as the second largest moon in the solar system. When scientists paid close [ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ] attention to its surface, they surprisingly found Titan to have dense atmosphere and liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas. Titan’s atmosphere is made mostly of nitrogen, similar […]
UPM develops photosynthesis enhancer
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY AZMAN ZAKARIA RESEARCHERS from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) have successfully produced ‘Photosynthesis Enhancer’ using carbon dots technology capable of increasing crop yields between 20 and 30 percent. Through the innovation, photosynthesis rate increases between 20 and 80 per cent depending on the types of crop. Furthermore, the cost to produce carbon dots is about 90 per cent lower than the conventional method. The increase in photosynthesis rate encourages […]
SELF-REPAIRED SHOES
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInstead of throwing away your broken boots or cracked toys, why not let them fix themselves? Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have developed 3D-printed rubber materials that can do just that. Assistant Professor Qiming Wang works in the world of 3D printed materials, creating new functions for a variety of purposes, from flexible electronics to sound control. […]
Engineers turn seawater into drinking water, thanks to the use of solar energy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteACCORDING to Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates, by 2025 nearly 2 billion people may not have enough drinking water to satisfy their daily needs. One of the possible solutions to this problem is desalination, namely treating seawater to make it drinkable. However, removing salt from seawater requires 10 to 1000 times more energy than traditional methods of freshwater supply, namely pumping water from rivers or wells. […]
Robot learns to play jenga
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIN the basement of MIT’s Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It gently pokes at a tower of blocks, looking for the best block to extract without toppling the tower, in a solitary, slow-moving, yet surprisingly agile game of Jenga. The robot, developed by MIT engineers, is equipped with a softpronged gripper, a force-sensing wrist cuff, and an external camera, all of […]