Several plants and animals have evolved surfaces with long-term air-retainability to prevent wetting and submersion. One example is Salvinia, a plant floating on water. The secret “how do they maintain an air-mattress” has been unraveled by…
OSCAR-QUBE successfully integrated into the ISS
ESA The student team behind experiment OSCAR-QUBE are celebrating after hardware was integrated into the International Space Station’s ICECubes facility by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, on September 3, 2021. According to ESA, the OSCAR-QUBE experiment uses diamond-based quantum…
Oscar-Qube
Oscar-Qube, short for Optical Sensors based on CARbon materials: QUantum Belgium, is an experiment developed by a group of students from the University of Hasselt, Belgium. According to ESA, Oscar-Qube’s mission is to create a…
Robotic Arm launched into space
The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is on its way to the International Space Station after being launched on a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, on 21 July, 2021. The 11-m-long robot is…
Water ‘s Uniqueness: Tetrahedral structures shows Surprising liquid–liquid transition
Scientists use two-state model based on the formation of tetrahedral structures to explain water’s anomalous properties and the surprising liquid–liquid transition of water. Tokyo- Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of…