Important Innovations Collection

Mysterious Radio Signal from Exoplanet                    Source: Cornell University - Bootes & Magnetic Field A First From Space This is an extraordinary scientific finding from space.  You might characterize it as an exoplanet talking to Earth.  A research team of scientists led by researcher Jake Turner at Cornell University has detected a mysterious radio signal from an exoplanet deep within space.  The radio "message" comes from the constellation Tau Bootes.  It is the first radio signal ever discovered from one of the 4,500 exoplanets documented by astronomers, trillions of miles above the Earth.  Their work has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The Search For Life in Space Is this a message from an alien world?  Well, researchers think the radio signals may provide a new way to explore the possibilities that life does exist outside of the Earth i...

New Search and Rescue Technology  -  WideSee System Drone Invention of UK, US and China-based Universities A team of engineers from the University of Leeds in the UK, University of Massachusetts in the US and Northwestern University in Xi'an China have developed new flying and imaging drone technology that can spot people trapped inside of buildings behind concrete walls 1/2 meter thick.  The WideSee drone mounted scanner can fly around the outside of a high rise building engulfed in fire or in a state of collapse and see if there are any people trapped inside.  It's new technology for search and rescue and it overcomes existing limitations to spot people entrapped in a disastrous situation. New Technology The new WideSee system doesn't use traditional heat seeking cameras that can be compromised by flames.  In order to overcome that limitation, the team used an adaptation of LoRa wireless radio systems that are commercially available.  The radio s...