Schlagwort: science
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24 Science and Technology Predictions That Didn’t Go as Planned
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTechnically speaking, in computer architecture, 32-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are at most 32 bits (4 octets) wide. Bill Gates at one point in time said that „we will never make a 32-bit operating system“, and that didn’t quite go as planned, but for the…
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Objective Europa Will Send Astronauts on One-Way Mission to Jupiter’s Moon
Reading Time: < 1 minuteObjective Europa is basically a group, led by Kristian von Bengtson, that is in the early planning stages of sending astronauts to Jupiter’s moon Europa to look for life. One caveat: the trip is one-way with no hope of return at the end of the mission. This is different from the…
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Loggerhead Turtle Loses Fin in Shark Accident, This Replacement Ensued
Reading Time: 2 minutesA loggerhead turtle named „Yu“ lost her front flippers in 2008, but since then she’s gone through 27 prosthetic fins swimming around her new home at Suma Aqualife Park near Kobe in Japan. ABC News reports that while there have been various attempts to fit turtles with prosthetic limbs around the world, Yu is…
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Researchers Develop World’s Thinnest Glass By Accident
Reading Time: < 1 minuteResearchers at Cornell University and Germany’s University of Ulm discovered the world’s thinnest sheet of glass by accident while attempting to manufacture graphene. That’s right, the researchers noticed „what they called ‚muck‘ on the substance they were attempting to create, so they took a closer look.“ That look revealed something that…
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Officially Leaves Solar System, Enters Interstellar Space
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s finally official, NASA’s Voyager 1 has left the solar system and entered interstellar space. Approximately 36-years after it was launched from Earth on a tour of the outer planets, the plutonium-powered probe is more than 11 1/2 billion miles from the sun, cruising through what scientists call interstellar space –…
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Teen Drops $33K on Historic Wikileaks Server Using Dad’s eBay Account
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter 10 days and 93 bids, an historic server used to host Wikileaks’ treasure trove of secret documents has sold on eBay — to a 17-year-old who used his dad’s email account without permission. Swedish ISP Bahnhof, which had hosted Wikileaks for about eight months starting back in 2010,decided to sell the server last…
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Asia Girls Now Wear This Strange Mask Instead of Getting Plastic Surgery
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNot everyone who wants plastic surgery can afford it, but now some of those people are able to slip on a Uniface Mask by Chinese designer Zhuoying Li. Simply put, „the science team behind this unique beauty product has developed ‚bionic-skin‘ technology to produce a human-skin-like mask, which is extremely thin…
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Amazing Technology That Can Extract 3D Objects from 2D Photos
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlways wanted to created real 3D models from flat 2D pictures? If so, then „3 Sweep“ is just for you. Users will not only be able to „just extract them, but then manipulate them, transform them, copy them, and move them around the image.“ You get the feeling that this is…
