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Mar 7, 2020

Iron Man: 10 Secrets About The Bleeding Edge Armor The MCU Never Revealed

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Tony Stark’s bleeding edge armor was first featured in Avengers: Infinity War, and while it had some cool moments, there’s actually a lot more to it.

Mar 7, 2020

MIT takes a page from Tony Stark, edges closer to an ARC fusion reactor (+video)

Posted by in categories: education, nuclear energy

O.o circa 2016.


MIT has been developing a small fusion reactor prototype, three of which could power the City of Boston if they were fully built. Though the project lost federal funding for its current fusion device, the school plans to press ahead on building a new, more advanced prototype.

Mar 7, 2020

This Is the World’s First Image of Quantum Entanglement

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, space

During the 1930s, venerable theoretical physicist Albert Einstein returned to the field of quantum mechanics, which his theories of relativity helped to create. Hoping to develop a more complete theory of how particles behave, Einstein was instead horrified by the prospect of quantum entanglement — something he described as “spooky action at a distance.”

Despite Einstein’s misgivings, quantum entanglement has gone on to become an accepted part of quantum mechanics. And now, for the first time ever, a team of physicists from the University of Glasgow took an image of a form of quantum entanglement (aka Bell entanglement) at work. In so doing, they managed to capture the first piece of visual evidence of a phenomenon that baffled even Einstein himself.

The paper that described their findings, titled “Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior,” recently appeared in the journal Science Advances. The study was led by Dr. Paul-Antoine Moreau, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Glasgow, and included multiple researchers from Glasgow’s School of Physics & Astronomy.

Mar 7, 2020

Artificial intelligence is making artificial intelligence easier to build

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

AI and machine learning is poised to assist with moving into the next frontier of technology: data itself.

Mar 7, 2020

Coronavirus: Northern Italy to quarantine 16 million people

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Italy’s prime minister has said at least 16 million people are in mandatory quarantine in Lombardy region and also in 14 provinces.

The lock-down will last until early April.

The dramatic escalation in the country’s efforts to contain the new coronavirus will close gyms, pools, museums and ski resorts.

Mar 7, 2020

Sodium batteries are one step closer to saving you from a mobile phone fire

Posted by in category: mobile phones

Circa 2019


New flexible electrodes help solid-state batteries last longer.

Mar 7, 2020

Researchers create portable black hole

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics, transportation

Essentially from a disposal device to even warp drive hoverboards to even like gravity field control to even like hovering spaceships.


Physicists have created a black hole for light that can fit in your coat pocket. Their device, which measures just 22 centimetres across, can suck up microwave light and convert it into heat.

The hole is the latest clever device to use ‘metamaterials’, specially engineered materials that can bend light in unusual ways. Previously, scientists have used such metamaterials to build ‘invisibility carpets’ and super-clear lenses. This latest black hole was made by Qiang Chen and Tie Jun Cui of Southeast University in Nanjing, China, and is described in a paper on the preprint server ArXiv1.

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Mar 7, 2020

Batman Day: How much has Bruce Wayne spent on being Batman over the years?

Posted by in categories: entertainment, materials

What I used to think was a basic suit for batman is anything but normal if it were true. It would cost about 1 million to make a real life one and the fabrics and materials might as well be alien because they are so exotic but look like fabric. If batman were real it would show how genius of science he truly is as his fabric technology is some of the most creative work any material scientist could ever dream of. Essentially it is like having a tank in a lightweight suit.


Happy Batman Day! DC Comics first created Batman Day for Batman’s 75th anniversary in 2014, and has continued to celebrate the Dark Knight on Sept. 23 each year since. While Harley Quinn has been trying to steal Batman’s thunder (happy 25th, Harls) this year, we still want to take a closer look at the guy who started it all.

A few years ago, MoneySupermarket.com put out an excellent infographic about the cost of being Batman. They used numbers based on The Dark Knight trilogy of films from Christopher Nolan, which means they were using modern technology (and values). But they only looked at base costs, not at ongoing numbers, and the base costs alone were astounding: $682 million just to become Batman. Based on those starting numbers, how much has Bruce Wayne spent on being Batman over the years? We’ll start with their numbers, and break it down based on the DC Comics sliding timeline; thanks to the New 52 reboot, where Bruce had been Batman for “about 7 years,” and assuming at least a year or two has passed since then, let’s go with nine years of Batman-ing.

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Mar 7, 2020

16 deaths from COVID-19 in Washington as officials scramble to contain

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, habitats

Wuhan Coronavirus Pandemic Washington State.

More deaths and it looks like they’re going to look at previous deaths at the retirement home that is the epicenter to see if some of those previous deaths were caused by Wuhan Coronavirus.

“Killian went on to say that since February 19, Life Care Center reported 26 deaths. Since that date, 11 additional patients died at the facility. They generally have three to seven deaths a month, Killian said. Life Care Center is still waiting back for reports on post-mortem testing and whether 11 of those patients tested positive for coronavirus.”

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Mar 7, 2020

This wearable is actually a floatation device

Posted by in category: wearables

This inflatable wristband could save your life in deep waters.