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May 14, 2019

Half-life of xenon 124 is about 18 sextillion years

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A new finding puts the half-life of xenon 124 close to 18 sextillion years.

That’s 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Existing theory predicts the isotope’s radioactive decay has a half-life that surpasses the age of the universe “by many orders of magnitude,” but no evidence of the process has appeared until now.

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May 14, 2019

What number comes after a Googolplex?

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A googolplex is 1010^100, where the exponents are solved from the right. The exponentiation symbol (^) means the number just to the left multiplied by the left number’s self the number just to the right number of times. If the left number is 10, that means 1 followed by the right number of zeros. That is 10googol=1010,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. So the answer to your question is a-googolplex-and-1=(1010^100)+1.

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May 14, 2019

Physicists invent flux capacitor, break time-reversal symmetry

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In the popular movie franchise “Back to the Future”, an eccentric scientist creates a time machine that runs on a flux capacitor.

Now a group of actual physicists from Australia and Switzerland have proposed a device which uses the tunneling of around a capacitor, breaking time-reversal symmetry.

The research, published this week in Physical Review Letters, proposes a of electronic circulators, which are devices that control the direction in which microwave signals move.

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May 14, 2019

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May 13, 2019

Amazon Now Has Machines to Automatically Box Up Orders

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But there are still plenty of humans involved in preparing orders.

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May 13, 2019

Fertilize the ocean, cool the planet?

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MIT researchers find unintended consequences of an idea to stimulate ocean phytoplankton growth in order to geoengineer a cooler atmosphere.

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May 13, 2019

Bacteria use cool trick to make ice

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By reordering nearby water molecules, Pseudomonas syringae bacteria can make ice.

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May 13, 2019

What’s going on with Iron Man’s armor in Avengers: Infinity War?

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Model-Prime armor is heading to the MCU.

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May 13, 2019

Watch Future Mars Settlers Ride a Space Elevator in This ‘Aniara’ Sci-Fi Film Clip

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See some alternate posters, too!

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May 13, 2019

Piëch doubles down on its outrageous sub-5-minute EV charging claims

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People will stop complaining about EV range the minute fast charging is a reality, and new startup Piëch reckons it’s got the goods to deliver an 80 percent charge on a 311-mile (500 km) range battery in four minutes, 40 seconds, which is vastly quicker than anything else on the market. Why not just launch the battery, then?

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