Steel is everywhere in our modern society, from the tools and machines we use in our homes to major infrastructure and construction work like hospitals, offices, and factories—all of which we take for granted. Moreover, steel is also expected to play a crucial role in the renewable energy transition, with solar panels, wind turbines, hydroelectric…
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The age of electrically-based devices has been with us for more than six decades. With more and more electrical devices being packed into smaller and smaller spaces, the limits of physical space will prevent further expansion in the direction the microelectronics industry is currently going. Also, volatile memory, which does not retain information upon being…
Game Theory is the study of strategic decision-making. It is a core aspect of how Blockchain Systems are designed so that anonymous nodes all over the world can work together for the common good of a network. Essentially, you want to design systems so that everyone acting in their self-interest will help the network. The…
If someone were to ask you to find the differences between these two images, you’d probably say there were none. And if the same person declares that one of these pictures has been modified, you might think that the person is mistaken. In fact, to the simple, plain eye these images do indeed look unmodified,…
Life on Earth as we currently know it, is unimaginable without electronic devices, and electricity in general. Nearly every single sphere of activity is dependent on electronics and so, it is only natural that space exploration and the field of aerospace in general, rely on electronics and electronic devices. As humans aim to ramp up…
WHAT IS A CARBON NANOTUBE? A hundred times stronger than steel yet lighter than Aluminium, Carbon Nanotubes(CNTs) are cylindrical molecules consisting of rolled-up sheets of graphene. They can be single-walled (SWNT) or multi-walled (MWNT). They are one of the strongest materials known to man, yet engineers are just starting to unlock their full potential. The…
Prove, you know a secret without actually revealing it, possible? Your personal data like your contact information, your taste, or even your behaviour patterns are very valuable. Companies benefit from this data in two ways: by using the data to optimize the services to better appeal to you and resell it to other companies. A…
Economists, by and large, love trade. In 2018 the IGM booth panel asked expert economists how they felt about introducing tariffs concerning the trade war. A tariff or duty (the words are used interchangeably) is a tax levied by governments on the value including freight and insurance of imported products. The majority strongly disagreed, while…
Driverless cars might just bring about the biggest societal revolution since, well, the industrial revolution, and it appears that everyone’s getting in on it. But how do they see? Object Detection technologies for self-driving cars The 90s had a thing for fantasizing over cars that drive by themselves. People called it crazy back then, but…
A boiling tea kettle diffuses its heat to the gradually warm surrounding air, yet it will still be the warmest region even as it, too, slowly cools. But what if the kettle cooled down to room temperature almost instantly, losing its heat in a wave traveling through the material close to the speed of sound?…