A thread for Science
always fascinated by these... amazing.tykjen wrote:
Could not agree more. And think about the James Webb Telescope that is coming up in 2018. 100 times more powerful than Hubble.RIFA wrote:always fascinated by these... amazing.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-nas ... scope.html
Check out its orbit
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/webb_hubble/
Paint-On Solar Cells Developed
Imagine if the next coat of paint you put on the outside of your home generates electricity from light -- electricity that can be used to power the appliances and equipment on the inside.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... ce+News%29
Imagine if the next coat of paint you put on the outside of your home generates electricity from light -- electricity that can be used to power the appliances and equipment on the inside.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... ce+News%29
Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.
It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-pen ... clock.html
wtf
It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-pen ... clock.html
wtf
Applied Science caught my eye
"When art imitates life"
Scientists doing their first exploring of deep-sea vents in the Antarctic have uncovered a world unlike anything found around other hydrothermal vents, one populated by new species of anemones, predatory sea stars, and piles of hairy-chested yeti crabs.
It was "almost like a sight from another planet," said expedition leader Alex Rogers, a professor of zoology at Oxford University.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-573 ... antarctic/
It was "almost like a sight from another planet," said expedition leader Alex Rogers, a professor of zoology at Oxford University.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-573 ... antarctic/
Creatures frozen for 32,000 years still alive
Bacteria found in Arctic tunnel come to life in the lab
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7019473#.TwZV4NQS1sJ
Bacteria found in Arctic tunnel come to life in the lab
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7019473#.TwZV4NQS1sJ
Supersoldier ants created in the lab by reactivating ancestral genes
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-sup ... stral.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-sup ... stral.html
Ha, I was thinking of posting that.tykjen wrote:Supersoldier ants created in the lab by reactivating ancestral genes
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-sup ... stral.html
Reactivating ancestral genes. Interesting stuff. Can't wait for the super-mutants.
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