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Moment of Science: The Atom
WTVG 13 Action News· 13 hours agoThe atom is somewhat the most basic unit of all matter -- and the ancient Greeks thought they were the absolute smallest things there were (”atomos” =...
Scientists find a surprise ingredient in exoplanet cake mix — sulfur dioxide
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA sulfur atom combined with two oxygen atoms forms sulfur dioxide. The planet's parent star doesn't...
Hot Air Rises, So Why Is It Colder On Mountaintops?
IFLScience· 4 days agoIf you live in a house with more than one story you’ve felt how air conditioning can be almost essential for survival upstairs, but a luxury below. Why...
Rise of the Nanomachines
The New Yorker· 6 days agoAt the time, Santos was at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Paris, studying genes that allow some bacteria to live longer than others. One...
Quantum Magic: How “Super Photons” Are Shaping the Future of Physics
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoResearchers at the University of Bonn have demonstrated that super photons, or photon Bose-Einstein...
Shortly after the Big Bang, conditions were perfect for life. Did aliens emerge long before us?
Salon via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“So no oxygen in there. It should be just carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, those three elements. But then...
Al Stahler: Self-defense
The Grass Valley Union· 6 days agoIt takes a lot of machinery to keep oneself alive – tiny, microscopic machines allow us to move muscles, think thoughts, build our bodies. Digestion...
Radioactive drugs strike cancer with precision
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe strategy took time to establish itself in routine cancer treatment, though. The first marketed therapy to combine radioactive isotopes with a...
How do hydrogen vehicles work? Are they the future of transport?
South China Morning Post via Yahoo Finance· 4 days agoAt the International Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Congress and Exhibition in Shanghai last week, more...
Mars Got Cooked by a Recent Solar Storm
New York Times· 6 days agoThe sun fired off a volley of radiation-riddled outbursts in May. When they slammed into Earth’s magnetic bubble, the world was treated to iridescent...
