Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Exoplanets, Space ExplorationIn 2008, HR8799 was the first extrasolar planetary system ever directly imaged. Now, the famed system stars in its very own video.Using observations collected over the past 12 years,…
A vertical shock tube at Los Alamos National Laboratory is used for turbulence studies. Sulfur hexafluoride is injected at the top of the 5.3-meter tube and allowed to mix with air. The waste is ejected into the environment through the blue hose at…
Life on other planets might not look like any beings we’re used to on Earth. It may even be unrecognizable at first to scientists searching for it. Credit: William HandTopics: Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Planetary Science, SETI, Space…
Credit: michaelmjc/Getty Images (chalkboard); Scientific American (words and design)Topics: Biofuels, Civilization, Climate Change, ExistentialismClimate change is already disrupting the lives of billions of people. What was once considered a…
New liberal ad ties presumptive future House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to ‘red scare’ icon Joseph McCarthy, Peter Weber, The WeekTopics: Civics, Civilization, Democracy, Economics, Existentialism, FascismDebt Ceiling and DystopiaThe debt limit does not…
On target: Water is fanned out through a specially developed nozzle, and then a laser pulse is passed through it to create a switch. (Courtesy: Adrian Buchmann)Topics: Applied Physics, Lasers, Materials Science, Photonics, Semiconductor TechnologyA…
FIG. 1. (a) Sketches of the excitations of surface plasmons polaritons - SPP (top), localized surface plasmons - LSP (middle), and magnetic plasmons - MP (bottom). All these excitations are associated with a collective motion of surface charges…
Numerical simulation of the neutron stars merging to form a black hole, with their accretion disks interacting to produce electromagnetic waves. Credit: L. Rezolla (AEI) & M. Koppitz (AEI & Zuse-Institut Berlin)Topics: Black Holes, Cosmology,…
The Last Kingdom recap: season one, episode three: succession in Wessex, Sarah Hughes, The GuardianTopics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, ExistentialismThe modern martial arts belt ranking system first started emerging in 1907 when…
An Orbitrap cell. Credit: Ricardo ArevaloTopics: Astrobiology, Astronautics, Biology, Laser, NASA, Planetary Science, Space ExplorationAs space missions delve deeper into the outer solar system, the need for more compact, resource-conserving, and…
Credit: Nicoletta BaroliniTopics: Chemistry, Graphene, Materials Science, Modern Physics, NanotechnologyGraphullerene, an atom-thin material made of linked fullerene subunits, gives scientists a new form of modular carbon to play with.Carbon, in its…
Massive subsidies to regain the edge of the US semiconductor industry will not likely succeed unless progress is made in winning the global race of idea flow and monetization.Topics: Applied Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3f_vD6icWkDecember 10, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Prize Speech Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, History, Human RightsNote: Sourced from…
Research Gate dot net: Epidemiology of Munchausen syndrome by proxy in New ZealandTopics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism, Human RightsTina Depuy (from her website: tee-nuh doo-pwee) wrote an analysis of the…