Though humanity has made significant strides across many fields, the history of our universe still remains an unanswered question. From a young age, we're taught about the Big Bang Theory — the universe started from a mere point that has expanded and stretched to grow as large as it is right now. However, the key word here is theory. The Big Bang Theory is merely a possible explanation, not a fact. In reality, we haven't answered our questions about the universe's early history.

What is the LK-99 Superconductor? On August 3rd, 2023, two scientists from South Korea published their discovery of the world’s first practical superconductor. They have called their superconductor LK-99, a strange material that can carry electricity at room temperature with zero resistance. The applications of such a material, including levitating trains and particle accelerators, have sparked the public’s interest.

Memories are at the core of being human. No other organism on Earth can think in the past, present, and future the way we can. However, in April of 2023, a team of scientists at the University of Sydney demonstrated that Nanowire Networks, an innate object, can exhibit short-term and long-term memory like the human brain.

Imagine being able to partake in a virtual world with people around the globe from the comfort of your home in the physical world. You would be able to live, work, and shop in a 3D virtual realm where your identity would travel with you in the form of a digital avatar. You could have multiple avatars, allowing you to multitask and take on different roles. Through your avatars, you would be able to move from one experience to another in a world that has come to be known as the metaverse.

Nano is a prefix that means one billionth or 10-9. At this size, we’re talking about the atomic level. Bot, short for robot, is a programmed machine that executes tasks without human involvement. Now imagine the power if we combined these two ideas. That is what makes nanobots, a subset of nanotechnology, so powerful, particularly in the field of medicine where atomic level substances create a system.