Science Bits

[Seldom Bucket]

Even a low level of light at night may disrupt your blood sugar

Leaving even a dim light on while you sleep may disrupt blood sugar control, a small study in humans suggests

www.newscientist.com

 

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New Revolutionary Material to Improve Body Gears

Harder than metal but light as the foam , New revolutionary material to help improve body gears and produce lighter car bumpers.

gamechangerscience.com

 

[satanboy]

Quantum electrodynamics tested 100 times more accurately than ever

Using a newly developed technique, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg have measured the very small difference in the magnetic properties of two isotopes of highly charged neon in an ion trap with previously inaccessible accuracy. Comparison with...

phys.org

 

[scudsucker]

Everything weird: the Hallucigenia animal(?)

 

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[scudsucker]

Some gear reduction experiments.

 

[satanboy]

The Sombrero Galaxy by Hubble
There are approx. 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way. Now look at this galaxy. It has 200 to 300 billion stars. Now….there are billions of galaxies! With billions of stars and that is just what we can observe with the current technology. A billion billion is a Quintillion and there is about 400 billion x a quintillion stars in the known universe. Something to the power of 10 to the 24th. It blows my mind .....What gets me isn't just the number of stars, and the enormous scale and size and distance. It's the amount of time. That each galaxy is 31 million light years away. The amount of time it took for the light from that picture to reach us, entire species could evolve on planets and develop into a space faring galactic civilization; empires could rise and fall, then fade into dust, and be lost in the sands of time, without us ever knowing. And that's just the 31 million years it took for that light, which is a drop in the bucket of time that this galaxy has had to create life over many many billions of years.

 

[satanboy]

Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception

A new study corrects an important error in the 3D mathematical space developed by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger and others, and used by scientists and industry for more than 100 years to describe how your eye distinguishes one color from another. The research has the...

phys.org

 

[satanboy]

Live Brain Cells in Dish Quickly Learn to Play Pong

And those cells could teach us a lot about "synthetic biological intelligence."

www.cnet.com

 

[scudsucker]

Volcano on Venus!!!

We finally have proof of active volcanoes on Venus

Researchers pored over images from Magellan's visit to Venus in the early 1990s.

arstechnica.com

 

[Seldom Bucket]

Antarctica's mysterious Blood Falls aren't made by minerals after all
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A bright red waterfall isn’t something you’d expect to see on the icy landscape of Antarctica, but that’s exactly what’s pouring out from the foot of Taylor Glacier. A team of scientists now claims to have solved the long-standing mystery behind the crimson waters of Antarctica’s Blood Falls.

The bizarre and apparently grisly sight was first discovered in 1911 by geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor, who attributed it to red algae. It was only half a century later that the crimson color was identified as being caused by iron salts. Most intriguingly, the water starts off clear but turns red soon after it emerges from the ice, as the iron oxidizes on exposure to the air for the first time in millennia.

Antarctica's mysterious Blood Falls aren't made by minerals after all

A bright red waterfall isn’t something you’d expect to see on the icy landscape of Antarctica, but that’s exactly what’s pouring out from the foot of Taylor Glacier. A team of scientists now claims to have solved the long-standing mystery behind the crimson waters of Antarctica’s Blood Falls.

newatlas.com

 

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Physicists use hair fluorescence to repurpose human hair waste

Physicists use hair fluorescence to repurpose human hair waste

Physicists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an innovative method of converting human hair waste into a functional material that can be used to encrypt sensitive information or detect environmental pollutants.

phys.org

 

[satanboy]

Scientists create plastic-free vegan leather that dyes itself, grown from bacteria

Researchers at Imperial College London have genetically engineered bacteria to grow animal- and plastic-free leather that dyes itself.

phys.org