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The year 2010 (not to be confused with the movie 2010 (1984)) is slowly, but surely becoming a reality. Everyday I hear of something scheduled to happen in 2010, and it adds a tiny bit of mass to the foggy concept in my mind of just what 2010 might be.
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Finally, sci-fi film effects creators have a scientific model to copy now: An award-winning visualization of the detonation of a type Ia supernovae, produced by scientists at the University of Chicago Simulation of Supernovae Explosion (via Wired)
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Happy 153rd B-day Nikola Tesla! nikola tesla – Google Search
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The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers’ produced [...]
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Based on images and video, a wildlife expert who provides support to the center said the small creature was a free tail bat that likely had a broken left wing and some problem with its right shoulder or wrist. The animal likely perished quickly during Discovery’s climb into orbit. NASA – Bat Hung onto Shuttle [...]
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Any photographer worth his or her salt knows that the number of pixels on a camera’s sensor is the least important thing about it. Here’s what’s more important: The size of the whole sensor. The size of each pixel. The pixel density (number of pixels per cm). The light sensitivity of each pixel. Here are [...]
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It can withstand rocket impacts and it’s perfectly sealed against biochemical attacks. Cars: Inside the Rocket-Proof Obamamobile
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I found a great science podcast by some very smart-sounding people (they have British accents) who turn out to be quite smart. It’s called Ask The Naked Scientists and they tackle life’s niggling questions, providing understandable answers that aren’t dumbed-down, just worded in ways that are accessible. I am four and a half episodes in [...]
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