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Dec 29, 2018

Strapping a high-speed camera to a lawnmower blade is the best idea anyone has ever had

Posted by in category: electronics

People (including myself) love slow-motion videos and we also tend to love watching things being destroyed. Lawnmowers are really, really good at destroying things, but capturing its destructive power with a high-speed lens isn’t the easiest thing in the world… unless you flip it upside down and strap the camera right to the blade.

Now, I wouldn’t want to be the one to tackle such a project, but the good news is that a YouTuber by the name of Tesla500 has already done all the hard work. The over 20-minute-long video shows the building of the rig itself as well as lots and lots of random household objects meeting their end in super slow motion.

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Dec 29, 2018

Earthquake Off Philippine Coast Hits A Region Already On High Alert

Posted by in category: futurism

U.S. Geological Survey says it was magnitude 7.0. No casualties have been reported. On Dec. 22, a tsunami, likely caused by the volcano Anak Krakatau, hit Indonesia and killed about 430 people.

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Dec 29, 2018

The Universe Speaks in Numbers

Posted by in category: futurism

How math helps us solve the universe’s deepest mysteries

One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them. For centuries, we have searched for these laws by studying the results of experiments.

Since the 1970s, however, experiments at the world’s most powerful atom-smashers have offered few new clues. So some of the world’s leading physicists have looked to a different source of insight: modern mathematics. These physicists are sometimes accused of doing ‘fairy-tale physics’, unrelated to the real world. But in The Universe Speaks in Numbers, award-winning science writer and biographer Farmelo argues that the physics they are doing is based squarely on the well-established principles of quantum theory and relativity, and part of a tradition dating back to Isaac Newton.

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Dec 29, 2018

A New Theory On Time Indicates Present And Future Exist Simultaneously

Posted by in category: futurism

According to a new controversial theory, everything around us is intricately planned, and each and everyone’s destiny has already been decided. The new theory suggests that time does not PASS and that everything is ever-present.

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Dec 29, 2018

Here’s how we can put all of humanity’s space debris to good use

Posted by in category: space travel

Tidying up our extraplanetary mess is as important a task as cleaning up the Earth. If we don’t, it will become increasingly hard to launch rockets into space.


Dec 29, 2018

Scientists Are Sending A Tiny Satellite Propelled By Water To Orbit The Moon

Posted by in categories: space, transportation

A team from Cornell is out to prove that water is all you need to send an aircraft flying in space. They will attempt to send a CubeSat, a tiny satellite no bigger than a cereal box, to orbit the moon.


Dec 29, 2018

New insight on how memory works

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Researchers have explored how memory is tied to the hippocampus, with findings that will expand scientists’ understanding of how memory works and ideally aid in detection, prevention, and treatment of memory disorders.


Dec 29, 2018

Australian researchers have developed a test that can detect cancer cells in 10 minutes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology

A quick and easy test devised by scientists from the University of Queensland could transform cancer diagnosis as we know it.

Cancer is a difficult disease to diagnose because different types are characterised by different signatures. Until now, scientists have been unable to find a unique signature common to all forms of cancer that would set it apart from healthy cells.

That’s what University of Queensland researchers Dr Laura Carrascosa, Dr Abu Sina and Professor Matt Trau have addressed. They have discovered a unique DNA nanostructure that seems to be common to all types of cancer and is visible when cancer cells are placed in water.

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Dec 29, 2018

It’s time to protect the blockchain from quantum-enabled hackers

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, quantum physics

To save the tamper-proof ledger from quantum-enabled hackers, the two technologies will join forces. If they don’t, data is at risk.

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Dec 29, 2018

New Calculations May Finally Make Fusion Energy a Reality

Posted by in category: nuclear energy

But despite all our advances, we’re not a whole lot closer to creating net-positive nuclear fusion. Put simply, that’s because these machines just take so much energy to generate plasma.

In fact, Wendelstein 7-X isn’t even intended to generate usable amounts of energy, ever. It’s just a proof of concept.

But for years, Hora and her team have been working on alternative designs. And in this study, they tested them out experimentally as well as through simulations.

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