Scrobby Scrubs Your Dirty Solar Panels for You
To get the best efficiency out of solar panels, you need to keep them clean. But climbing up on your roof with a scrub brush or hoping a rainstorm will wash them off aren’t the…
Author Archives: Nidhi Goyal
About Nidhi Goyal
Nidhi is a gold medalist Post Graduate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
Need a Safe Place During a Tornado? It’s in the Bag.
Hundreds of people are killed and left homeless due to powerful tornados every year. There is no such thing as guaranteed safety inside a tornado. Violent tornadoes can level and blow away almost any house…
Honda Rides into the Future with 750cc NM4 Vultus ‘Batbike’
Honda Motors Co. has unveiled the NM4 Vultus. Designed by a young team of designers, it looks like it might have been driven right out of the future. Honda has offered two production models of…
US Experiments to Find Out if We’re Living in a 2D World
For years, we believed that we live in a three dimensional world but an ongoing experiment suggest that the 3D universe is an illusion. We could actually be living in a 2D world, much like…
South Korea Enlists Gun-Toting Sentry Robots to Patrol Its Border
The 250 kilometer demilitarized zone between South and North Korea, despite its name, is the most heavily militarized border in the world. On the South Korean side, there is one guard post every 50 meters,…
Wearable Artificial Kidney: A portable dialysis machine for patients on the go
People with kidney failure regularly need to check into a hospital to purify their blood through dialysis. The whole process is fairly time consuming. But things are about to change. A new wearable dialysis system…
This Standing-Style Tricycle is Made for Walking
We walk to get where we’re going. We walk for exercise. Combine your exercises with your commute by riding this Walking Bicycle. Launched in Japan, this standing-style tricycle is powered by the stepping action of…
Ebolabot Developed to Combat Ebola in Hospitals
The Ebola virus has killed thousands of people in West Africa and currently has the U.S. on high alert. The Ebola virus can survive for up to six days on solid surfaces. Though it can…
Scientists Stop Light Like a Red Light Stops Traffic
Light travels at a speed of about 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second). The sunlight that we see here on Earth actually left the Sun 8 minutes before. Nothing in this universe travels…
Pack Your 3D-Printed Portable Wind Turbine in a Bag and Take It Wherever You Go
We’ve seen those so-called portable diesel and petrol electricity generators. But these portable generators are bulky and heavy to move and not very environmentally friendly. Now, we have a technology that can really be called…
