MEDOLOGY
- Superfood Seaweed Could Provide a Huge Boost to Future Batteries
- An Electric Plane Using Siemens Motor Just Broke World Speed Records
- This Prosthetic Leg Enables Amputees Feel the Ground They Walk On
- Newly Invented Graphene-Based Filter Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water
- This Cylindrical Magnetic Chess Board Is Next Level Crazy
- Science Says You Can Win at Rock-Paper-Scissors With This Strategy
- Norway's 'Doomsday Vault' Will Now Preserve World's Data
 It wraps sushi into delectable bites. Its pulp can be found in cosmetics. It covers someone's body if they go in for certain types of spa treatments. Now, seaweed could be a more eco-friendly and sustainable way to power smartphones and other electronics. An international team of researchers developed a way to boost the powers of seaweed to improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries. [Image Source: Wikipedia] "Carbon-based materials are the most versatile materials used in the field of energy storage and conversion," Dongjiang Yang with Qingdao University in China said.  |
 The electric aircraft by Siemens, the Extra 330LE, has just set two new speed records and a new world climb record a week ago. It made its maiden public flight on the 4th of July, 2016 in Dinslaken, Germany. Siemens-powered Extra 330LE aircraft Weighing approximately 1,000 kg, the Extra 330LE is an aerobatic airplane that is a prototype for the new drive system which drives its components to their limits, testing them and improving their design. The aircraft is suited for 20-minute flights that include take-off, climbing and five minutes of full throttle flight. [Copyright Jean-Marie Urlacher] It is powered by the motor SP260D that only weighs a mere 50 kg and sets the record of power-to-weight ratio producing a maximum of 260 kilowatts of energy.  |
 Being able to feel the ground beneath your feet is now possible for people wearing prosthetic legs as researchers from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria pioneers a prosthesis technology. Prosthetic leg technology The team of scientists, led by Dr. Hubert Egger, was the first in the world to fit a human being with a sensory-enhanced prosthetic leg. The prosthesis is able to simulate sensations which allow for a safer use of prosthetics and reduce phantom pains. The amputee, Wolfgang Rangger who lost his right leg back in 2007, was fitted with this complete prosthetic limb. It gave him the sensation of feeling the ground underneath him and sensing pressure spots on his foot.  |
 Water is the most important element any life form needs in order to exist. Our planet Earth is composed of around 71 percent water, however, this raw form of H2O is unconsumable due to the salts and other chemicals that live within it. A team of researchers from the University of Manchester plans to solve the problem of conveniently accessing drinking water by creating a graphene oxide membrane filter that can sieve out salts and other organic materials in an atomic level. [Image Source: University of Manchester] Extracting graphene Theoretically speaking, graphene does not exist in nature and is highly unstable.  |
 Chess, a strategy game of simulated warfare, is one of the world's oldest board games, and has been around since the 6th century. Countless modifications have been made to the game, the world over, perhaps the most popular one being Sheldon Cooper's three-person chess, in the geeky TV sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, which seems to be inspired from Star Trek. "Vertikal Gravity Chess" Now a Kickstarter project by the name of "Vertikal Gravity Chess" aims to add a very simple twist to the game. The project creator, Nathan Knight from Sacramento, California, describes it as a "cylindrically shaped magnetic chess board which rotates on a horizontal axis.  |
 Have you ever allowed your fate to be dictated by a few rounds of rock-paper-scissors ? Well, maybe this is not such a foolish way for two people to decide who will be doing what by defeating each other. Mathematics has found a way for you to win your way through this random trial and error cycle. A team of researchers from the Zhejiang University in China has conducted a revelating study about the mathematics behind the game of rock-paper-scissors (RPS). [Image Source: Pixabay] The mathematics of rock-paper-scissors For those who didn't know, including myself, the game of rock-paper-scissors was invented by the Chinese as early as the Han Dynasty.  |
 The World Arctic Archive opened this week, adding interesting features to its neighboring seed vault. The vault often called the "Doomsday Vault" is known for storing as many types of seeds as possible. Now, similar research groups want to expand what remains after the apocalypse to include film-based data. World's Data Norwegian company Piql is converting digital data from the internet onto a durable, photosensitive analog film. The company says the film can last between 500 to 1,000 years. A country interested in the process can upload images, documents or audio-visual content onto the servers. For as long as those protected servers remain functional, the saved information can be searched.  |
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