Rekindle your Curiosity
Physics can be described simply as the study of our universe and the rules of our universe, technically speaking physical laws, are almost all written down in the form of…
Shaving dulls sharpest razors-explains extensively a team of MIT researchers. Ever imagined that a seemingly simple act of shaving could have a lot of underlying science? And an extremely delicate…
New atomic clock keeps time more precise- claims new research at MIT. As the conventions followed to track time until now were syncing with the sun’s motion, we have quantified…
World’s thinnest storage device developed at the University of Texas. The engineers here, have successfully curated the world’s thinnest memory storage device that would revolutionize the electronic world. It would…
Top 5 lesser-known Indian Inventions? Wondering how an invention be a lesser-known one? Humankind is dependent on inventions and discoveries. Had we not invented wheels, we would not whizz around…
The first periodic radio signals have been detected for the first time that comes from an unknown source. These Fast Radio Bursts come from as far as 500 million light-years away, a distance that stretches beyond our galaxy. And astronomers have assigned 180916.J0158+65 as the name of the source. Now, astronomers and scientists observed the source for 500 days and came to a concrete 16-day pattern. These first periodic radio signals ever recorded have a four-day slot of radio waves occurring randomly.
The world is standing at a juncture, when today, we can detect and read gravitational waves. Thus Nicholas Demos a student from the MIT’s Kavli Institute, is inclined towards producing new type of mirrors that would produce the least thermal noise and help in deducing gravitational waves. And also engineer a device that tests mirrors entirely and not just the few upper coated layers. The only such existing apparatus in the world was developed by Matthew Evans, who is the MIT MathWorks professor of Physics and also Demos’ advisor, along with the Research Scientist Slawomir Gras. The apparatus would help researchers and scientists, measure thermal noise through the entire sample.
A promising method developed by the students at the MIT, claiming to sift the primeval wavelets has already been published in the Physical Review Letters. In contrast to the existing method that played around the guessing of gravitational waves emanating from various types of cosmic collisions, the new method aims at percolating the constant non-random patterns from the gravitational-wave data and leaving behind the larger chunk of gravitational noise. The newer method uses simulation technique that utilized 400 seconds of gravitational wave sets.
A Weekly Newsletter for the most Amazing News on Science and Technology
[mc4wp_form id=”896″]
