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Australian telescope finds no signs of alien technology in 10 million star systems – ICRAR
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars. Astronomers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) … Continue reading
Missing Matter
Astronomers have used a network of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) to detect half of the Universe’s normal matter, missing until now. Credit: ICRAR with some footage supplied by CSIRO/Alex Cherney, ESO/y. Beletsky and ESO/R. Wesson.
Time: Do the past, present, and future exist all at once? | Big Think
Time: Do the past, present, and future exist all at once? Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think Edge: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Everything we do as living organisms is dependent, … Continue reading
Adam Savage Builds an Octopus Puzzle! (Part 1)
(Note: This is a video series we filmed in 2018, before the current pandemic lockdown.) Adam visits the California Academy of Sciences to meet one of its Giant Pacific octopuses and chat with marine biologists to learn about octopus intelligence. … Continue reading
Conversations With Joe – Andy Weir
I traveled to California in September and spoke with Andy Weir, the author of The Martian and Artemis, to get his thoughts on Mars travel for an upcoming video. But we covered all kinds of topics, including mental health, creativity, … Continue reading
“Pyjama Plot” Shows the Quantum World Is Even Stranger Than We Thought
New experimental evidence of a collective behavior of electrons to form “quasiparticles” called “anyons” has been reported by a team of scientists at Purdue University. Anyons have characteristics not seen in other subatomic particles, including exhibiting fractional charge and fractional statistics … Continue reading
What Is The Lifetime Of A Photon?
As you may have read somewhere, light only takes 8 minutes to cover the distance between the Sun and the Earth. Yes, that’s an insanely short time, considering that we are talking about 150 million kilometres! But the light that … Continue reading
Hubble: An Unexpected Journey [Eye in the Sky Video Miniseries]
Episode 2: An Unexpected Journey – With five servicing missions, upgraded instruments, and new ways of operating, Hubble is not the same telescope it was when it launched. Discover the innovative ways astronomers and engineers use Hubble today. Video … Continue reading
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BBC World Service – CrowdScience, What’s the yeast doing inside my bread?
Yeast: the tiny organism with massive potential f you’re one of the millions of people who used lockdown to try something new like baking sourdough bread, you may well be wondering what’s happening chemically inside your loaf, especially if the … Continue reading
A more perfect unit: The New Mole
THE MOLE—as in 6.02214076×10^23, the unit in chemistry used to count really really tiny stuff like atoms and molecules. Well, THE MOLE changed (it’s not simply 6.022×10^23 anymore). And while you may not have noticed it, a fundamental shift in … Continue reading
