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This high resolution (till now) image of sun showing a spot was captured by the U.S National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Ynouye Solar Telescope. According to Dr. Thomas Rimmele, Associate Director at National Solar Observatory " The sunspot image achieves a spatial resolution about 2.5 times higher than ever previously achieved, showing magnetic structures as small as 20 kilometres on the surface of the sun". High Resolution image of sun revealing detailed sunspot. (Image Credit: NSO/AURA/NSF.) High Resolution image of sunspot. (Image credit: NSO/AURA/NSF.) The sunspot is spread across 10000 miles was taken on 28 January,2020. The spot is just a tiny fraction of the sun yet a planet like earth would fit perfectly. For more detail:  Click here

"The Solar Orbiter",which was launched on 10 February,2020 by European Space Agency and NASA took the closest ever image of sun. The most detailed images of sun ever. Image of sun from "Solar Orbiter spacecraft". (Image courtesy: ESA and NASA) These images reveals a unique phenomena of sun called "Campfires"."Campfires" are actually tiny solar flares. The image of campfire was taken by an Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) of Solar Orbiter. The space craft was nearly at the middle of sun and earth (77 million km from sun) . Campfires (Shown by arrow). Image Courtesy: ESA and NASA For more details:  Click Here

Courtesy: Appest Inc Tick Tick  from Appest Inc. is one of the best to do apps out there. This is an Editors' Choice app. "It is simple but powerful." This wonderful app will let you to schedule,remind and manage your tasks with an ease. It's cloud storage feature and compatibility with all major OS enables you to use this application across your devices. Try out this app   Click Here .

Artistic rendering of New Horizons flying by Ultima Thule Image: NASA Nasa's New Horizon,a distant flyby, covered the longest distant in the history of human. The space probe was launched in 2006 and passed Pluto in 2016. The probe is currently at 4 billion miles fro earth.It has captured some icy rock space objects that has never been previously found called " Ultima Thule ". This will help to map our solar system more accurately.

Asier Marzo with Holographic Acoustic Tweezers. Courtesy: Asier Marzo,Sergio Larripa,Bruce Drinkwater  Professor Bruce Drinkwater ,Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, and Dr Asier Marzo,Universidad Publica De Navarra,Spain took the sound engineering to another level.Bruce and his team developed a  model of acoustic tweezers which can handle multiple object with an ease.His team programmed  an array of mini speakers which can manipulate the position of objects.The advancement in the development of acoustic tweezers will let surgeons to do their job without touching the patients. For more details: Click Here

Courtesy:Linda Cicero, Stanford News Stanford scientists has demonstrated for the first time that heat from the sun and coldness from outer space can be collected simultaneously. The above image shows the apparatus,a double-layered rooftop panel.The top layer uses the standard semiconductor materials that go into energy-harvesting solar cells, the novel materials on the bottom layer perform the cooling task. Link to the journal:  Click Here

Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Keplar,the space observatory by NASA, launched in 2009 to discover Earth-Sized planets orbiting other stars is no more. NASA retired this revolutionary telescope on 30th,October,2018 as it ran out of fuel.Some data related to the telescope given below. Courtesy: NASA

The new optical gyroscope -- shown here with grains of rice. Courtesy: Ali Hajimiri/Caltech A Group of researchers from California institute of Technology led by Ali Hazimiri, developed a gyroscope that is 500 times smaller than the current one.This tiny one uses a new technique called "Reciprocal Sensitivity Enhancement" developed by the group.

A recent development would make electricity generation from the sun's heat more efficient, by using ceramic-metal plates for heat transfer at higher temperatures and at elevated pressures. Courtesy: Purdue University illustration/Raymond Hassan. A team at Purdue University developed a new composite material which are being used to make a concentrated plant to store sun's heat energy to generate electricity more efficiently.The video below demonstrates the process briefly.

TP-Link Ethernet Network adapter. Courtesy:  Amazon.in orTP-Link If you want to connect an ethernet cable to your smartphone or if your computer's ethernet port is not working,here is the solution.USB Ethernet adapter. Just plug in this to your mobile with an OTG cable and you are good to go. Some smartphone hardware do not support USB Ethernet connection (There is a video below showing how it works) . And for your PC, Install the driver that comes with the device in a disc>plug in your device to the USB port of your PC and you are done! Purchase Link: Amazon.in: Click Here

Atlas from Boston Dynamics. Courtesy: Boston Dynamics "Atlas" the robot from Boston Dynamics shook the robotic industry recently with it's new feature. Now ATLAS can do Parkour! People now starts believing that it will definitely win the first Robot Ninja Warrior!The above video shows some actions of ATLAS. 

This image of cells that were made fluorescent shows how they are printed in complex structures for the purpose of producing tissue such as tendons and ligaments. Courtesy: Robby Bowels,University of Utah College of Engineering A group of biomedical researchers from University of Utah developed a process of 3D- printing of cells to produce tissues(ligaments and tendons).A person suffering from damaged/ruptured ligament or tendons now can be treated with these 3- dimensional printed tissues.

The wireless device naturally absorbs into the body after a week or two. Courtesy:Northwestern University. Researchers from Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine developed a medicine called "Bio-Electronic Medicine".This Implantable, Biodegradable and Wireless device speeds up nerve generation and heals damaged nerves.This investigation was done on a rat where this device delivered a regular pulses to the peripheral nerves(after a surgical repair process), accelerating the regrowth of nerves in legs.

A. Programmable USB LED Fan. Courtesy: AliExpress.com This is a programmable USB LED fan. One can customize/program it using a PC through a software which comes with the product! Purchase links: Amazon.in:  Click Here AliExpress.com: Click Here B.USB Bluetooth Audio Receiver. Courtesy:Amazon.in With this USB device you can turn your wired speaker into an wireless one.This is a USB BLUETOOTH AUDIO RECEIVER  (UBAR) . You need a 5V USB power adapter (any USB  mobile charging adapter) to power it.Plug your audio input cable of your  speaker into the 3.5 mm audio port of USB BLUETOOTH AUDIO RECEIVING device,Turn on your speaker,Connect your audio device (smartphones,laptops) with UBAR via Bluetooth and you are good to go! Enjoy  your music wirelessly. Purchase Links: Amazon.in: Click Here Ali Express.com: Click Here C.USB Volt and Amp meter. Courtesy:Amazon.in This device enables you to measure output voltage ...

This is a schematic representation of photocatalytic hydrogen production with InP/ZnS quantum dots.Credit: Shan Yu At University of Zurich,researchers has developed a nanoparticle by adding zinc sulphide on the surface of Indium based quantum dots to use in artificial photosynthesis.This quantum dots can produce clean hydrogen fuel from water and sunlight.

The flexible device on a finger. Credit: Image courtesy of RIKEN   A group of scientist developed a very flexible,organic sensor powered by sunlight.This can be act as a self powered heart monitor.This consist of a sensory device called an Organic-Electrochemical Transistor embedded into a flexible organic solar cell which can measure a variety of biological function.

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology A group of researchers from Chalmers University of Technology,Sweden developed a specially designed molecule which can store solar energy. The leader of the research team, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, says  "The energy in this isomer can now be stored for up to 18 years. And when we come to extract the energy and use it, we get a warmth increase which is greater than we dared hope for" 

Artist’s impression of the planet Kepler-1625b transiting its star with the suspected exomoon in tow. Photograph: Dan Durda/Science Two astronomers from columbia university presented some compelling evidence of a Neptune-Sized moon (Exomoon) around a star which is 8000 light years away using Nasa's Hubble Space Telecsope and Kepler Space Telescope."This would be the first case of detecting a moon outside our solar system," said Kipping, an assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia .

Demonstration of approx distance of new solar system object from other planets. Courtesy:Robert Molar Candanosa/Scott Sheppard/Carnegie Science Institution " Well,the search for another planet (Planet 9 or Planet X") was going on for long time, But,the latest discovery of a super distant object is putting more lights to that.The distant object also known as TG387 also known as "The Goblin" was spotted by astronomers at the Carnegie Institution of Science using a Giant Telescope called Subaru .

Stuffed Toy Horse with Omniskin. Courtesy: Yale University Fabric embedded with actuators and sensors makes this robotic skin,which is also known as Omniskin.Yale roboticist Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio and her team developed this robotic skin. Here is a video demonstrating the action: