Taking Nikola Tesla’s dream of transmitting electrical power wirelessly over long distances one step further, an engineering team at the California Institute of Technology has successfully transmitted microwave energy across open space between the experimental components of an orbiting satellite—including sending a portion of this power as a signal to a groundread more
Canada is currently experiencing the worst wildfire season in recorded history, with the total area of land burned so far this year breaking records not only at a national level, but for all of North America. Dry conditions and more frequent lightning storms caused by a dramatically changing climate areread more
Two ambitious experiments aimed at uncovering the seat of consciousness in the human brain have failed to meet their goals, resolving a wager that was a quarter-century in the making. Although it is unusual to be reporting on the failure of a series of experiments, it is important in regardsread more
A key component of space travel in science fiction has taken a major step to becoming reality with an experiment that has successfully induced suspended hibernation in lab rodents. Instead of using potentially dangerous methods such as chemically-induced sleep or freezing the subjects, the technique involved uses ultrasound to lullread more