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Jul 20, 2020

Does green coffee bean extract work? A detailed review

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

Imagine if this very cheap thing could treat coronavirus đŸ€”

That would put a wrench in profiteers plans:

Green coffee bean extract is a popular weight loss and health supplement, but does it work, and is it safe?

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Jul 20, 2020

Samsung will unveil 5 new products at its big phone event on Aug. 5

Posted by in category: mobile phones

Samsung’s president and head of mobile communications T.M. Roh said in a blog post Monday that Samsung will announce five new products during the company’s big “Galaxy Unpacked” event on Aug. 5.

Samsung didn’t say what it will unveil, but it has teased a new Galaxy Note phone. The company typically unveils its large-screened Galaxy Note devices — best known for the pen that slides into the side — in August. Samsung usually packs in all of the latest hardware and software it has to offer into its Galaxy Note phones ahead of Apple’s iPhone event, which is typically held in September. Rumors suggest this year’s model will be called the Galaxy Note 20.

Jul 20, 2020

A Programmable Quantum Chip, via Silicon Photonics

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

U.K.-led research team packs more than 200 photonic components onto a chip that performs reconfigurable quantum information processing with light.

Jul 20, 2020

Diamagnetic Levitation

Posted by in category: futurism

Seeing is believing: a little frog (alive!) and a water ball levitate inside a Ø32mm vertical bore of a Bitter solenoid in a magnetic field of about 16 Tesla.

Jul 20, 2020

Astrophysicists fill in 11 billion years of the universe’s expansion history

Posted by in category: cosmology

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released today a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever created, filling in the most significant gaps in our possible exploration of its history.

“We know both the ancient history of the universe and its recent expansion history fairly well, but there’s a troublesome gap in the middle 11 billion years,” says cosmologist Kyle Dawson of the University of Utah, who leads the team announcing today’s results. “For five years, we have worked to fill in that gap, and we are using that information to provide some of the most substantial advances in cosmology in the last decade.”

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Jul 20, 2020

Magnetic-confinement fusion

Posted by in category: physics

Circa 2016


One way of realizing controlled nuclear fusion reactions for the production of energy involves confining a hot plasma in a magnetic field. Here, the physics of magnetic-confinement fusion is reviewed, focusing on the tokamak and stellarator concepts.

Jul 20, 2020

US20030067235A1 — Diamagnetic propulsion vehicle

Posted by in categories: materials, transportation

Omg levitating cars o,.o!


In this vehicle, the diamagnetic fields principles are applied to obtain a hovering and propulsion effect which makes low cost, friction free and zero pollutant emissions transport media. This is done using a special combination of electromagnetic and the natural diamagnetic susceptibility in all The physical effect of this is an air gap between the surface and the vehicle. The height of levitation has a direct relationship with the material used as floor surface; since all materials have diamagnetic susceptibility factors. Also, the power on the diamagnetic field is a key for the levitation and propulsion effect. All these factors make this prototype vehicle an easy maneuverable one, since there are almost no inertial forces in the system.

Jul 20, 2020

Monster Black Hole Found in the Early Universe – 1.5 Billion Times More Massive Than Our Sun

Posted by in category: cosmology

The second most distant quasar ever discovered now has a Hawaiian name.

Astronomers have discovered the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international Gemini Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), Programs of NSF’s NOIRLab. It is also the first quasar to receive an indigenous Hawaiian name, Pƍniuāʻena. The quasar contains a monster black hole, twice the mass of the black hole in the only other quasar found at the same epoch, challenging the current theories of supermassive black hole formation and growth in the early Universe.

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Jul 20, 2020

Waterloo scientists help create 3D map of the universe

Posted by in category: cosmology

Scientists at the University of Waterloo played a big role in a 20-year global project to make a 3D map of the universe, which will help improve knowledge about the expansion of the universe.

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Jul 20, 2020

New Spin Record Set: 1 Million rpm

Posted by in categories: electronics, energy

Circa 2008


Industrial motors can spin at a head-spinning 250,000 revolutions per minute. But a new matchbook-sized motor runs circles around the competition.

Researchers from ETH Zurich’s Department of Power Electronics created a drive system in cooperation with its industrial partners that exceeded 1,000,000 rpm in tests.