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The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015
The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015
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Most distant laser ever found in a galaxy 6.6 billion light-years away Forget about the terawatt lasers we’re making on Earth. This natural one is thousands of times more powerful than the Sun. Here on Earth, the very idea of a laser is relatively novel, having only been invented in 1958. The underlying physics is straightforward, as…
Ask Ethan: Why is the Universe electrically neutral? For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why? Everywhere we look, on each and every one of the largest cosmic scales, it’s gravitation that dominates the structure that we form. From planets to stars, stellar systems…
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Is life possible on Mars? Was there ever life on Mars? Is there life on Mars now? Did it originate there or here, on Earth? All possibilities are fascinating. For as long as humanity has been watching the skies, we’ve been fascinated with the possibility that other worlds — much like Earth — might contain living organisms. While our visits to the Moon…
Saturday, May 14, 2022
Origin of the Universe: Is Absence of State Possible? "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is a question that has puzzled some of the most prominent philosophers for centuries. Why is there something, when it intuitively seems easier that nothing would exist? This “something” must have caused the Big Bang too, right? Everything around us and everything we can sense suggests that we live in a world of…
What we wish we knew about the origin of life Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome? Out there in the Universe, there are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way, each with their own set of planets, moons, and opportunities for life to arise. Beyond the Milky Way…
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Where do James Webb’s unique “spikes” come from? When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four “spikes” coming from it. Here’s why Webb will have more. Less than three months after its initial launch, it finally happened: the James Webb Space Telescope revealed its first telescope alignment evaluation image. For the first…
Can Floating Nuclear Reactors Save The World? Can a nuclear ship turn the tide on climate change and fight Russia? Right now, the world seems pretty messed up. The Earth is dying before our very eyes and World War III seems imminent. Both of which threaten not only our health but also this gorgeous planet we call home. However, Samsung recently partnered with Seabord to create a…
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
The Fusion Reactor You Can Carry In A Backpack Could a new fusion reactor design finally unlock this ultimate energy source? Nuclear fusion power could save the world. With it we would have, on-tap, near-limitless energy with zero carbon emissions. We could power our modern lives and beyond without fear of killing Mother Earth. In our quest to unlock this elusive power we have…
Monday, May 9, 2022
“Negative Capacitance” reduces power consumption in transistors. New phenomenon could save energy in computer chips A negative capacitance transistor consumes 30 % less energy than conventional devices. A capacitor is a device that stores charge. The amount of charge stored is proportional to the voltage applied across its terminals.
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Invisibility cloaks are not just possible, they’re becoming reality. Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak a reality. For as long as human beings have been writing about fantasy, myth, and science fiction, the dream of invisibility has always been a top priority. While…
Thursday, May 5, 2022
What we’ve learned after 32 years of NASA’s Hubble When the Hubble Space Telescope first launched in 1990, there was so much we didn’t know. Here’s how far we’ve come. On April 24, 1990, NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope into Earth’s orbit.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
On the Conservation of Information and the Second Law of Thermodynamics How can these fundamental laws be consistent? The conservation of quantum information, quantified in term of von Neumann entropy, is a fundamental consequence of the linearity and unitarity of quantum mechanics. As the terms information and entropy are often used interchangeably in several branches of sciences, this may sound very strange to anyone familiar with the second law of thermodynamics, which says that entropy generally increases with time. How can these claims be…
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Intel Lineup Might Shatter The GPU Market An old but one of the leading companies of microprocessors and microcontrollers which has stepped into the world of GPU. Intel has long been recognised as one of the world’s most dominant microprocessor manufacturing enterprises. These companies manufacture high-quality microprocessors in a variety of pricing…
Canadian anthropologist says Homo floresiensis species not extinct at all — Where would a “hobbit” hide? In his new book, Gregory Forth claims that a species that has been called a “hobbit” still lives on the Indonesian island of Flores. According to the professor, the legend of Ebu Gogo is actually H. floresiensis.
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Do Pistol Shrimps Hold The Key To Nuclear Fusion? Biomimicry of a deadly sea creature could soon provide us with near limitless clean energy. In theory, nuclear fusion is the perfect energy source, simply put hydrogen in and get copious amounts of energy and helium out. There is no vast habitat loss like solar and no horrific carbon emissions like coal or gas. The…
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Can AI Unlock Fusion Energy? The ultimate climate-saving technology may finally be here. In theory fusion energy is the ultimate power source. Simply put in hydrogen and get out copious amounts of energy with only helium as a byproduct. But, in practice, it is far more complicated. The super hot, mega compressed and insanely chaotic conditions inside a fusion reactor have been notoriously difficult to…
QUANTUM MILESTONE Silicon-based quantum devices gain credibility with 99% accuracy A high profile international endeavor reports high-fidelity two-qubit gates based on spin qubits in silicon Classical computers made up of silicon semiconductors process information in bits — denominated by either 0 or 1.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
What happens if the Solar System’s largest comet collides with Earth? The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth. Out there, in the far recesses of the Solar System, a great existential threat lies in wait for planet Earth: the…
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
NASA’s New AI Will Terrify Putin Hypersonic missiles designed by AI. Unless you have been living under a rock you will have noticed international relations have not been so peachy recently. Particularly with Russia, as they continue to use brutal and criminal acts in Ukraine, despite universal outcry. One of the most shocking revelations of the war in Ukraine has been Russia’s liberal use of hypersonic missiles…
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5 Simple Ways to Drop Your Dementia Risk WHILE THERE IS NO CURE FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, there are some lifestyle moves you can make that may lower your risk of developing the disease. We begin with this troubling statistic: Nearly six million individuals in the United States have Alzheimer’s dementia. That’s according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Is There An Earth-Like Planet In Alpha Centauri? Thanks to an upcoming telescope, we may soon find out Despite being ‘only’ four and a bit lightyears away, the Alpha Centauri star system remains a tantalising mystery. In theory, a habitable Earth-like exoplanet could exist around either of the binary stars, but the stars are too bright for our current telescopes to see these other worlds hidden…
Yes, the gold given to baby Jesus was made in a neutron star collision When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars. On a frosty winter’s night more than 2000 years ago, a young expectant mother found herself in a wooden manger as she…
Did Fermilab’s new result blow a hole in the Standard Model? Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up. In the entire history of science, no theory has been more successful, in terms of predictions matching the results of experiments and observations, than the Standard Model of…
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Ask Ethan: Could “heavy light” be the missing dark matter? Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick? When it comes to the Universe, there are some things we can be confident are out there based on what we observe. We know that the Universe was hotter, denser, and…
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Time dilation is real, and your head ages faster than your feet The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate. There’s no such thing as absolute time. No matter where you are, how fast you’re moving, or how strong the gravitational field is around you…
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
The Cutting Edge Satellite Securing Our Future Eco tech has a major problem, but Fleet Space may have the perfect solution. For decades millions of engineers around the world have scratched their heads as they try to solve climate change and avert the impending disaster. Since then, we have started the electric vehicle revolution, built extensive solar farms and even developed…
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Ask Ethan: Should Alpha Centauri be our first interstellar target? The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there? Assuming humanity can survive the next few decades and centuries — and that’s a big assumption, given the threats of…
Thursday, April 7, 2022
The Lack of Disorder Is One of the Greatest Mysteries of the Universe Science provides us with the illusion that it has explained a great deal. By describing the “creation” of the Universe in mathematical terms and models we have pushed the riddles further away from us, while the mysteries of the true origin is really just as unresolved. One can guess and speculate. Some cosmologists suggest that…
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The Device That Could Stop The Next Pandemic A recent study points to a massive medical breakthrough. In 2020 we got a rude awakening when we discovered just how fragile humanity is. Despite our mind-bending technology and next-gen medicine a simple Coronavirus turned our world upside down, grinding everything to a halt, killing millions and leaving even more with long term fatigue. But this…
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Twisting spacetime, or Einstein’s forgotten theory that can help solve four physics mysteries at once? A theory in which mass not only curves space-time but also twists it may explain several cosmic puzzles at once. Whether it is true, however, is unknown. To prove it, one would have to undermine the old and well-tested general theory of relativity.
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Surprise: Mercury isn’t the Solar System’s hottest planet Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury “only” reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night. In the grand scheme of the Solar System, the greatest source of energy by far is the Sun. While radioactivity and gravitational contraction might supply…
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A revolutionary lightweight super-strong material This new material is stronger than steel and light as plastic MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as plastic. The exciting new work is from the lab of Michael Strano, the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT.
The Most Interesting Molecule You’ve Never Heard of For my anniversary, I wanted to discuss cyclooctatetraene (COT) and why it’s so goddamn fascinating To celebrate Organic Live’s successful orbit around the sun (i.e., it’s my first anniversary of writing), I thought I would go into a story about my logo — what the molecule is and why it’s my favorite. Beware though, this story involves some chemistry jargon. Do not fret! I promise I will walk you through it all in the simplest terms possible (if I don’t, let me know in the…
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The true meaning of Einstein’s most famous equation: E=mc² More than any other of Einstein’s equations, E = mc² is the one that most people can name. But what does it all mean? For hundreds of years, there was an immutable law of physics that was never challenged: that in any reaction occurring in the Universe, mass was conserved. That no matter…
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