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Category Archives: Science
How NYCs Underground Park Will Stay Well-Lit and Alive
Winter makes you crazy because you spend so much time cooped up without fresh air or sunlight. With that in mind, some people in New York City have plans in the works for an underground park—the Lowline—to be built in … Continue reading
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Mars is the new moon: why space explorers will never be the same | The Verge
The Earth that Neil Armstrong left forever last month was a different planet than the one he re-entered in 1969. They won’t be making any more like him: a Navy test pilot with middling grades in his aeronautical engineering classes, … Continue reading
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Antimatter & Fusion Engines Could Power Spaceships | Space.com
Nuclear fusion reactions sparked by beams of antimatter could be propelling ultra-fast spaceships on long journeys before the end of the century, researchers say.A fusion-powered spacecraft could reach Jupiter within four months, potentially opening up parts of the outer solar … Continue reading
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The Higgs Boson Discovery Is Now Real Science
In July, scientists announced that they’d discovered what they strongly suspected to be the Higgs Boson, a particle that’s believed to be the key to unifying the standard and quantum models of physics. In August more experiments made the finding … Continue reading
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Military modifications and the rise of the supersoldier (Wired UK)
From Beowulf to Captain America, the idea of supersoldiers has captured the human imagination for time immemorial. But after years of mixed results (the less said about LSD tests, the better), how close are we today to creating the ultimate … Continue reading
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Pressure in Mount Fuji is now higher than last eruption, warn experts — when will Mount Fuji EXPLODE? (Wired UK)
The pressure in Mount Fuji’s magma chamber is now higher than it was in 1707, the last time the nearly 4,000-metre-high Japanese volcano erupted, causing volcanologists to speculate that a disaster is imminent. The new readings, taken by the National … Continue reading
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How Astronauts Used a Toothbrush to Fix Space Station: Scientific American
It took hard work, determination and some MacGyver-esque ingenuity for a pair of spacewalking astronauts to fix a key power system aboard the International Space Station Wednesday (Sept. 5). NASA spaceflyer Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide spent nearly … Continue reading
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The President Will Be Able to Order Strikes Against Hurricanes One Day
We are in the middle of hurricane season. Isaac hit the south of the United States last week, inundating acres of land, wreaking homes and disrupting oil and gas production—a stark reminder of the Katrina disaster and yet another warning … Continue reading
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The Best Mars Panorama Yet Feels Just Like Being There
This morning Hans Nyberg sent me the most impressive panorama Ive seen of Mars yet, made from images released by NASA on August 27. Put it at full screen and look around. Its just like being right there, but with … Continue reading
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Haier’s 46-inch transparent display shows up at IFA, we go eyes-on (video) — Engadget
After last year’s awesome mind-controlled and small transparent television, we made naturally a beeline to the Haier booth on the floor of this year’s IFA. While it wasn’t yet fully unpacked, we were still pretty impressed with what we saw. … Continue reading
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