5 Awesome Things Scientists Do With Lasers

Lasers are the cool and amazing light beams that make us excited. You can see them in a meeting room pointing to an object, or you can even play with them in your home. Lasers may seem pretty recent inventions, but they are with us for over half a century. The laser technology is not only cool but also, they are really useful in the field of science and technology. Below are five awesome things that the scientists can do with the lasers.

Optical Levitation: Lasers are powerful enough to levitate stuff. Photons that make up the light exert a force which is known as the radiation pressure. This pressure is so powerful that it can overcome the gravitational force to make an object levitate.

Optical Tweezers: The radiation pressure, as discussed above can be used to make optical tweezers to manipulate objects. The technology can affect objects as small as an atom.

Laser Cooling: Lasers can work as coolants too. Lasers are capable of cooling things down by reducing the momentum of atoms or molecules.

Fusion: The laser technology can recreate the environmental conditions which are found in the core of the Sun in the laboratory. Lasers can heat materials up to extremely high temperatures – about a million degrees. Atoms at these temperatures break down to form a soup of ions and electrons. Such a phenomenon causes fusion releasing a high amount of energy. This method can lead to clean power generation in huge amounts.

Image Biological Reactions: You can make little science movies with an x-ray laser. Having a very short wavelength, they can capture images of stuff as small as an individual atom. Lasers can take snapshot images of even molecular reactions very quickly. Such a method helps researchers learn biological reactions in detail.

Therefore, lasers have different uses and strengths, applicable for industrial purposes to medical profession bringing a broad scope of this technology.

What’s Cooking: How 3D Design Is Changing the Food Industry

 

3D printers have marked their presence in most of the industries. Medicine, Aerospace, and the automotive industry have been using 3D printers to develop high-quality designs that deliver high performance. On the way forward, another industry has now started to adopt the 3D printing technology – The Food Technology.

Chefs and researchers collectively suggest that the 3D print technology can help to make the food production faster, more sustainable, and easier. The technology can develop food that is specific to our diet.

Here, are some of the benefits that the 3D printers can bring about:

Personalized Nutrition

As these printers follow strict digital instructions for printing, they are also capable to develop food which is specific to a particular diet. These printers can develop food for people who require certain levels of nutrition for a specific lifestyle or those who are undergoing some medical condition.

Enhanced Food Productivity

3D printers are best known for printing objects with precision, effectiveness and within a short time. Such a technology is estimated to develop food designs that are most complicated and intricate. Chefs will now be able to perform beautiful food garnishing faster. Also, 3D printers will help to develop multiple food items that look alike, ultimately helping chefs to complete more tasks in limited time.

The Space Mouse Enterprise Kit is another addition to this technology. This two-handed workflow is one of the best ways to create the next intricate food design. The kit is a complete package that helps the chefs to create detailed and accurate food design patterns.

Transparent Wood: Revolutions Ahead in Architecture and Electronics

Research groups from the University of Maryland and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology introduced some chemical solutions that could make the wood completely transparent. This resulted in a glass-like wood you can see through. Wood is always a preferable material as compared to its existing transparent rivals such as plastic and glass. This transparent wood will soon revolutionize electronics and architecture as:

· Wood seems to possess some benefits over glass and plastic for architectural use.

· Its lower thermal conductivity keeps the buildings at a more consistent temperature making it reach higher energy efficiency levels.

· In the electronic world, the transparent wood might be used to manufacture solar cells.

· These low-cost cells will be readily available and can be a potential solution to build solar panels for large surfaces.

The transparent wood laser is another interesting application that is created by embedding an organic dye into the wood. These organic lasers have unique optical properties that can further enhance biophysics. The researchers believe that soon we will witness this technology.

Skill Development and Career Future in CAD Industry

The world has experienced a huge rise in Information and Technology in the recent past years. The current scenario in the field of science and technology have showcased the power of technology and skills. Being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, India needs a more skilled workforce to compete with the world.

A Degree isn’t Enough 

When it comes to technical graduates, there is a countless number of engineers that pass out every year. But these graduates still lack the skills and expertise required by the industry. Engineering graduates undoubtedly have good grades. Still, there is huge talent gap that needs to be filled to make them immediately employable.

Graduates Needs to be Multiple Taskers 

Employers across the industries are always hunting for people that are multiple taskers. This means that graduates need to have more than one skill or even one particular mastered skill. Not only technical skills, but the industry also expects the graduates to have a personality and soft skills to work in the industry.

Need of Skill Development 

With the change in technology, the industry today needs more skilled manpower. For instance, regarding CAD, all the manual work is replaced by computers and drawing pencils are replaced by mouse. Thus, to fulfill the needs of the employers and to make a future in the industry, the youth needs some additional technical training.

Career in CAD Industry 

CAD technology is most widely used technology across industries. Civil, Electrical and Mechanical domains are hiring technical graduates that are well acquainted in CAD and its applications. It is therefore, important for the engineers to learn and master these skills. CAD is one of the lucrative fields in the market that demands highly skilled and compete engineers for the market.

India expects highly skilled man force from the upcoming generation. These expectations can only be met when the engineers are technically trained to work across the industries.

HYPERLOOP TRAIN TECHNOLOGY- A GREAT TRANSFORMATION IN TRAVEL INDUSTRY

The cutting edge technology today is making the unthinkable things happen. Another concept that emerged recently was – The Hyperloop concept. Proposed by the billionaire inventor Elon Musk, CEO of the aerospace firm SpaceX and the man behind Tesla, this technology will enable pods to travel with an immense speed in a low-pressure environment.

  • The Hyperloop proposed by Musk is made up of two massive tubes that extend from San Francisco and Los Angeles.
  • The Hyperloop pods carrying the passengers will travel through these tubes at speed over 700 mph.
  • This will be done by planting magnetic accelerators for propulsion along the length of the tube that will propel these pods carrying people forward.
  • The company, Hyperloop One already completed and tested its first prototype of 500m in the Nevada desert. This revolutionary transport is said to introduce its first working Hyperloop system by the year 2021.