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Sep 16, 2018
Two new ways to turn ‘garbage’ carbon dioxide into fuel
Posted by Mike Ruban in category: energy
Carbon dioxide is society’s ultimate waste product: We inject billions of tons of it into the air every year. Now, researchers have found two efficient ways to recycle CO2 into energy-rich fuels. # Science MagArchives
Carbon dioxide–splitting techniques could store excess electricity from renewable sources.
Sep 16, 2018
You Can Now Genetically Engineer Your Own Mutant Frogs For $499
Posted by Mike Ruban in category: genetics
Sep 16, 2018
The universe is a big place, so when we get beautiful images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, they cover a very small spot in the sky that may not fully represent what the universe at large looks like
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
The universe is a big place, so when we get beautiful images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, they cover a very small spot in the sky that may not fully represent what the universe at large looks like. To change that, we’re expanding our view by significantly enlarging the area covered around huge galaxy clusters previously seen to get a better look at the universe. Take a look: https://go.nasa.gov/2QAw5hc
Sep 16, 2018
Faster Than Light? Neutron-Star Merger Shot Out a Jet with Seemingly Impossible Speed
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Sep 16, 2018
Entanglement allows one party to control measurement results
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: quantum physics
Sep 16, 2018
Report Finds Salem Knew For Years That Algae Could Threaten Water, Didn’t Plan Accordingly
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Sep 16, 2018
Scientists Say We Can’t Terraform Mars. Elon Musk Says We Can
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, engineering, environmental, space
SpaceX’s CEO shrugs off 20 years of NASA research.
SORRY, ELON. To be ready for human occupants, Elon Musk has long called Mars a “fixer-upper of a planet.” But according to a new NASA-sponsored study, a better description might be a “tear-down.” The scientists behind that project say it’s simply not possible to terraform Mars — that is, change its environment so that humans can live there without life support systems — using today’s technology.
BUILDING AN ATMOSPHERE. Mars has a super thin atmosphere; a human unprotected on the surface of Mars would quickly die, mostly because there’s not enough atmospheric pressure to prevent all your organs from rupturing out of your body (if you survived a little longer, you could also suffocate from lack of oxygen, freeze from low temperatures, or get fried from too much ultraviolet radiation).
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In the over two-decades-long search for dark matter, scientists so far have come up short. In recent years though, construction of new experiments and upgrades to already existing detectors are giving new hope that we’re closer than ever to understanding dark matter.
One of those new efforts is SABRE, an international collaboration that will house multiple detectors working in tandem in the southern and northern hemispheres: two at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory, and another at an underground lab in an Australian gold mine.
