Better than a hologram: Research produces 3-D images floating in ‘thin air’0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 25, 2018
Nature study outlines method to make the images of science fiction
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Even Chemists Are Baffled by This GIF of a Droplet Spiraling to Its Doom0
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- January 19, 2018
A single drop of solvent swirls like a tiny dancer atop a beaker of water, gradually jettisoning away little round bits of itself until nothing remains. Some who saw it thought it looked like a spinning galaxy, or the world’s tiniest hurricane. All who saw it wondered what the heck was going on — and that includes the researchers who conducted the experiment in 2011.
One of history’s worst epidemics may have been caused by a common microbe0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 19, 2018
The symptoms were unlike anything the doctors of the time had seen.
Cryosleep: It’s not just science fiction anymore0
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- January 19, 2018
Putting astronauts into short-term hibernation could make space travel more efficient.
A faster, cheaper water filter, thanks to sugar0
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- January 18, 2018
A new filter material may be better at straining contaminants from water than the activated carbon in your faucet filter—and may be cheaper and easier to clean, to boot.
Ancient DNA results end 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy mystery0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 17, 2018
Using ‘next generation’ DNA sequencing scientists have found that the famous ‘Two Brothers’ mummies of the Manchester Museum have different fathers so are, in fact, half-brothers.
Rewritable paper goes technicolor0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 12, 2018
Metal-ligand complexes display a range of long-lasting colors that can be erased on demand, allowing paper to be reused
Low-energy electrons may spark some space chemistry0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- January 11, 2018
Bonds and chemical groups found in biomolecules form in ices bombarded by the electrons
Lose Water Weight, Grow an Inch? It Happened for These Mountains0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 10, 2018
Wouldn’t you love to grow an extra inch taller — by sweating? According to NASA scientists, it is possible to grow an inch or more in height just by displacing water weight. The caveat: It only works if you’re an actual mountain.
Mysterious Payload now orbiting Earth after SpaceX launch – But no one will say what it is0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- January 9, 2018
The payload may be used for surveillance or other tracking
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