The Olympic Torch Is Borderline Indestructible
The Olympic Torch Is Borderline Indestructible Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. VIDEO The Olympic torch’s one job is to stay lit no matter what. And honestly, I never gave much thought to how that was accomplished. Lots of tiki torch fluid? Very careful runners? Ghosts? Correct answer: pressurised gas and a chassis that could probably survive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. What’s Inside cut open one of the torches built for this year’s Rio Olympics, but it took them the bett..>> view originalThis new material could mean a huge advance for wearable tech and prosthetics
This new material could mean a huge advance for wearable tech and prosthetics July 30, 2016 By Jayson MacLean Leave a Comment Researchers in the Netherlands have come up with a new advance in the science of metamaterials -composite materials with unique properties not found naturally in their parts- one of which is likely to have applications in the fields of prosthetics, robotics and wearable technology among others. Using 3D printing, the team created a set of squishable rubber cubes 1 cm 3 in..>> view originalThe Terrifying Reason This Star Flickers Every Two Minutes
Some 380 light years away in the constellation Scorpius lies a star that has puzzled astronomers for over 40 years. Called AR Scorpii, the star flashes brightly and fades again every couple minutes, like a lightbulb on a dimmer switch. Now, astronomers have identified the cause of the flickering, and it’s a reminder that the cosmos is still rife with terrifying secrets. Artist’s impression of the exotic binary system AR Scorpii, with a compact white dwarf star (right) flogging its red dwarf co..>> view originalMigaloo to make a splash in reef waters
Migaloo is set to have a whale of a time on the Great Barrier Reef.The rare white humpback was sighted near Fraser Island on Friday, not too far from the waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.He is being monitored on his annual migration up the coast after vessels got too close to him off the Gold Coast on Tuesday.A Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service vessel has been keeping watch of Migaloo until he reaches the safe waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.The famous white whale ha..>> view originalNew Earths: Astronomers discover two more planets that could support human life
The search for alien life is a mainstay in the study of space, and it just took a small, yet significant step forward.Astronomers have been using the Hubble Space Telescope to study the atmospheres of nearby planets in an attempt to find ones that could support life as we know it here on Earth. Last week, in the constellation of Aquarius, the team found two likely candidates.The two planets, TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c, are about 40 light-years from Earth and orbit a red dwarf star. It is likel..>> view originalWhere exactly is Migaloo right now?
THE Department of Environment and Heritage protection has responded to the many public requests to know where exactly Migaloo is right now. Environment and National Parks Minister Dr Steven Miles said the white whale was not automatically "tracked" by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service rangers, or by wildlife officers from the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection. "We get lots of inquiries from members of the public - and the media - wanting to know where Migaloo is, whe..>> view originalEurope's space agency will beam your message to Polaris
This initiative is a collaboration between the space agency, the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, the University of Edinburgh and researchers from John Hopkins University and the European Southern Observatory. Once the team is done putting the interstellar message in a bottle together -- the deadline for submissions is September 16th -- the ESA's Cebreros deep space antenna in Madrid will beam it to the star 434 light-years away. You have to answer a particular question, because the team's purpo..>> view originalStranger than fiction: These ants look like the dragons in 'Game of Thrones'
Sometimes reality is more imaginative than fiction. Itty-bitty versions of two of Daenerys Targaryen's dragons actually exist outside of the "Game of Thrones" TV series in a more mundane form: They're ants.With spikes poking up from their backs, the scientists thought the insects resembled the TV dragons, so the two new species have been dubbed Pheidole drogon and Pheidole viserion in a paper published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. But these spines aren't just dragon-like. What's inside th..>> view original
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