Lifeboat Foundation

Juggalo or juggalette makeup features a black and white face that actually distorts the facial features that the devices pick up on in order to identify an individual, particularly the jawline.

Just don’t try it @ Walmart!

An absolutely massive hole has formed in the upper atmosphere of the Sun, and our planet will align with that hole later this week. Once the alignment happens, Earth will be bombarded by a “solar storm”, and nobody is quite sure yet how bad it will be. If the storm is relatively minor, we could ju.

Nope, no spiders here. Electrospun nanofibers.

What would these engineered nanofibers look like draped over plants? Hmmm…

Construction progressing at fast clip at 1,210-acre Google site in Tahoe Reno Industrial Center just east of Reno-Sparks.

Future satellites could make their way deeper into space than ever before thanks to a new plasma-fueled thruster.

The new thruster, built by engineers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, could open up a whole new realm of scientific research, according to a Princeton press release. That’s because the thruster could finally give the tiny satellites called CubeSats the ability to move between the upper and lower bounds of orbit — a spectacular leap toward comprehensive orbital infrastructure.

In October 2017, European officials reported that a cloud of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 had mysteriously wafted over the continent. Its likely source was in the southern Ural Mountains, near Mayak, the Russian nuclear facility involved in a deadly nuclear disaster in 1957. Strangely, Russia at first denied — but then acknowledged — there had been a surge of radiation. However, it rejected the idea that the surge was the source of the cloud. Now, scientists report in a new PNAS paper that they’ve narrowed down where it actually came from.

There were a number of hypotheses to explain the source of the cloud, which spread over most of Europe and even reached Florida, Guadeloupe, Kuwait, and Mongolia in tiny amounts. Fortunately, it was deemed non-hazardous.

Russian officials denied that Mayak, one of the country’s largest nuclear facilities, was the source of the ruthenium. In November 2017, Rosatom, the state company that runs Russia’s nuclear industry, pointed to high radiation in Italy, Romania, and Ukraine, suggesting they might have been the source. And in December of that year, Russian officials, reasserting that Mayak was not the source of the cloud, suggested the cloud might have come from a satellite that had burned up in the atmosphere. Other hypotheses arose, but scientists have lacked the evidence to support or reject them until now.