Forget everything you thought you knew about boiling and freezing, thanks to these MIT scientists.
MIT Freezes Water At Boiling Point
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The Air Force’s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission.
The X-37B landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Sunday. The Air Force is mum about what the plane did in orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2017. The 780-day mission sets a new endurance record for the reusable test vehicle.
It looks like a space shuttle but is one-fourth the size at 29 feet.
Security researchers have been following the xHelper malware on Android with great interest, owing to the app’s seemingly incomprehensible ability to reinstall itself on an infected device despite factory resets.
When we think of avatars, we imagine a blue film character. But now they’re being used very differently.
Prostate cancer runs in Jeff Nelson’s family. His brother, uncle and cousins have all been diagnosed with the disease. When his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test results jumped to 5.5 from 4 in summer 2018, he knew he had to move quickly.
Jeff Nelson chose UCI Health and an investigative treatment for prostate cancer that uses high-intensity sound waves to destroy only the cancer tissue. He’s glad he did.
‘Diamond rain’ on Saturn and Jupiter
Posted in climatology, space
Diamonds as big as jewels fall as “rain” on Saturn and Jupiter, seeded by giant lightning storms, according to new calculations by US scientists.
Hard light computers could be exponential.
Structured light is a fancy way to describe patterns or pictures of light, but deservedly so as it promises future communications that will be both faster and more secure.
Quantum mechanics has come a long way during the past 100 years but still has a long way to go. In AVS Quantum Science researchers from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa review the progress being made in using structured light in quantum protocols to create a larger encoding alphabet, stronger security and better resistance to noise.
“What we really want is to do quantum mechanics with patterns of light,” said author Andrew Forbes. “By this, we mean that light comes in a variety of patterns that can be made unique—like our faces.”
Bacteria that infect rice are thwarted by changes to rice genes involved in sugar transport.
Planting trees to save the planet just got a whole lot easier – no gardening gloves required.
Researchers say planting trees helps capture and store carbon – and a new app makes it easy for anyone to get involved.
