Schlagwort: science news
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College Students Successfully Create and Fire 3D-Printed Rocket Engine
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUCSD (Uiversity of California, San Diego) have created a 3D-printed metal rocket engine using techniques previously only known to NASA, and successfully fired it at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry launch site in California’s Mojave Desert. Gizmag says that it is the „first such test of a printed liquid-fueled, metal rocket…
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Quantum Black Holes May Be Bridges to Other Universes
Reading Time: 2 minutesA group of physicists have just published a description of a quantum black hole, which uses loop quantum gravity where the predictions of physics-ending singularities vanish, and are replaced by bridges to another universe. In other words, in place of the black hole is something that resembles an entry point to another…
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Scientists Announce That Jupiter and Saturn May be Filled with Diamonds
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to a group of scientists, lead by University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Kevin Baines, both of our solar system’s largest gas giants are home to conditions favorable to the creation of solid diamonds. That’s right, „about a thousand tons of diamonds per year.“ Here’s how it works: Massive lightning storms which…
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Bizarre Theories About the Universe That Might Blow Your Mind
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe multiverse theory essentially refers to the hypothetical set of infinite or finite possible universes (including the historical universe we consistently experience) that together comprise everything that exists and can exist: the entirety of space, time, matter, and energy as well as the physical laws and constants that describe them. In…
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Fascinating Science Things You May Not Have Known About the World
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDid you know that if an extraterrestrial from a galaxy 65-million-light-years away, viewed Earth through an extremely powerful telescope right now, they’d see dinosaurs. We have rounded up twenty-five more fascinating things you may not have known about the world and beyond. Official Source: http://list25.com/
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You Won’t Believe How Doctors Used a Tooth to Restore This Blind Man’s Sight
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIan Tibbetts, a 43-year-old man from Britain, damaged his eye in an industrial accident when scrap metal ripped his cornea in six places, and you won’t believe how doctors managed to restore his sight using a tooth. That’s right, it’s a two-part procedure called osteo-odonto-keratoprothesis: first, the tooth and part of…
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Boston Dynamics Unveils Speedy WildCat, a Robotic Mule That Can Run at 16MPH
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBoston Dynamics unveils its latest creation, and it’s definitely no slouch. Called the WildCat, this robotic mule WildCat can probably be considered the cheetah of its pack, and it’s capable of untethered speeds of up to 16 MPH thus far. Previously, the company’s Cheetah robot hit a record 29.3 MPH while…
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Massive 30-Foot Giant Squid Washes Ashore in Spain
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNot just a myth, beachgoers in the Spanish community of Cantabria were astonished Tuesday when they stumbled onto the carcass of a giant 30-foot-long squid that had washed ashore almost fully intact, and weighed nearly 400 pounds. According to Grind TV, it „was delivered to the Maritime Museum of Cantabria, where…
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Scientists Use Single Lightning Bolt to Fully Charge Smartphone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a nutshell, scientists from Southampton University used an alternating current, powered by a transformer, to recreate a bolt of electricity by passing 200,000 volts across an 11-inch gap. This generated the same heat, light and charge produced by a bolt of lighting, which was then used to charge the battery…
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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 –…
