Archived early-era TrendinTech science and technology coverage, 2015-2018.
While NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been in operation for two decades now, it has nearly depleted its fuel reserves. Over half of that time has been spent taking...
Consciousness is something that we know very little about but is often defined as being a person’s awareness of something. But, some scientists even argue
For a long time, scientists have claimed that as meteors shoot across the midnight sky, they make a hissing sound as they go. But, for just as long,...
If we could engineer the perfect astronaut, what would be the best qualities to give them? This may sound like a line out of a science fiction movie,...
The Unruh effect is basically the prediction that an accelerating observer will observe blackbody radiation, whereas an inertial observer wouldn’t observe
Space-based Solar Power (SBSP) is a concept that’s been around since the 1970’s, but due to the large payload that’s needed to launch it into space, it’s never...
Space-based solar power is a simple idea with a hard engineering problem at its center. A satellite in orbit can collect sunlight almost continuously, without clouds, night or...
The quantum mechanics race is more intense now than it ever has been as companies fight to be the first to release a user-friendly quantum computer. It won’t...
For more than a century the basic idea of the car stayed the same: a privately owned vehicle, powered by an internal combustion engine and driven by a...
Get ready as it’s nearly that time of year again when all the best of the best auto manufacturers gather to show off their new models and give...
Last December a storm with a low-pressure zone called Theresa created a massive surge of power (31,000 megawatts to be exact) to be fed into the grid temporarily...
NASA’s Kepler space telescope‘s been hard at work again this month as it reveals what could possibly be a close relative to Venus. The planet is situated 219...
