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Researchers use light and crystals to create new materials on demand.
One day, it may be possible to "draw" rather than "grow" crystals for use in a wide range of applications, including lasers, LEDs, and the semiconductors used in sensors in astronomical instruments, which would result in improved performance and reduced prices.
By Francis Dami3 months ago in Futurism
A new telescope photograph shows the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS blasting a jet towards the sun.
As our nearest star warms up a portion of the comet's surface, 3I/ATLAS is launching a jet of material in the direction of the sun. The composite image displays a white light, which is the comet's atmosphere or coma, and the nucleus, or frozen, rocky centre core, of 3I/ATLAS as a big, black dot. The purple-marked jet is blazing out in the direction of the sun, which is also how comets in the solar system often behave.
By Francis Dami3 months ago in Futurism
The IUCN has officially declared the once-widespread migratory bird known as the slim-billed curlew extinct.
There are now even more animals on the list of those driven to extinction. A charismatic bird, Australian marsupials, and a few plants are among the species that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has formally declared extinct in its most recent report.
By Francis Dami4 months ago in Petlife
The oldest known stalagmite, which dates back 289 million years, was discovered in rocks in Oklahoma.
Did you know that troglobites are organisms that only inhabit caves? Although it's not the most attractive name in the world, it seems appropriate. evokes visions of damp, chilly, and shadowy spaces where unidentified liquids, some of which have been found to be the oldest water on Earth—and people drank it!—drip from the roof.
By Francis Dami4 months ago in Earth
"Carter Catastrophe": The Math Formula That Foretells Human Demise
Humanity has been on a lengthy road to discover that we are not the centre of the universe, the galaxy, or even the Solar System since we evolved into a (semi) sentient species and began studying the cosmos.
By Francis Dami4 months ago in Earth
As American Warships Lurk in Venezuela, Fear and Hope
As one speaker after another, microphone in hand, called on the hundreds of government supporters in one part of the city to defend the country with their lives, hundreds of them held their rifles to their chests.
By Francis Dami4 months ago in Criminal
Human brains show our mental states by emitting light and glowing in the dark.
As stimulated molecules release extra energy, photons are released by all living tissues. Researchers refer to the phenomenon as ultra-weak photon emission (UPE) because it is so faint—roughly a million times fainter than the human visual threshold.
By Francis Dami6 months ago in Longevity
The essential components of life may have always been present on Earth.
What was the origin of life on Earth? That has been a long-standing question. The solutions are still strewn across rocks, seas, and prehistoric terrain. One hint can be found in phosphorus, a necessary component of life.
By Francis Dami7 months ago in Earth
