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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

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.

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 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:

Kelly Thomas and Jeff Marquis. Photo:University of Louisville Kelly Thomas got injured when a truck flipped with her inside of it and Jeff Marquis,after a mountain biking accident.They were told that they probably would never walk again. But in a study at University of Louisville on spinal cord implantation,they got their smile back!

Courtesy:Facebook.Reuters Facebook has suffered a massive data breach last week which exposed nearly 50 million accounts of user including Mark Zuckerberg's.Company accepted the fact that there was a vulnerability in the software which caused data breach. The shocking part is hackers could also access apps which were logged in through Facebook.

James Allison and Tasuku Honjo discovered proteins that ‘brake’ the immune system.Both were working since 1990. Illustration of James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo. Image Courtesy:Nobel Assembly Dr. Allison, 70, is the chairman of immunology,University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.  Dr. Honjo, 76, is professor,Kyoto University.  The two will share the roughly $1.01 million prize money.

Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST),Japan has developed a Humanoid Robot that can do constructional work. In  this video it is being demonstrated that how the HRP-5P works in real,installing a dry wall.