Berkeley-led study finds law-breaking property in vanadium dioxide that could lead to applications in thermoelectrics, window coatings
https://telegra.ph/Metal-01-29
https://telegra.ph/Metal-01-29
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Metal
For this metal, electricity flows, but not the heat
For the first time, researchers have successfully grown human cells inside early-stage pig embryos in the lab, creating pig-human hybrids, which the researchers describe as interspecies chimeras.
https://telegra.ph/humanpig-01-29
https://telegra.ph/humanpig-01-29
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humanpig
The first human-pig hybrid embryo has been created in the lab
A mathematician says he's found a system that could stop tsunamis in their tracks 👉 https://telegramscience.blogspot.ru/2017/01/a-mathematician-says-hes-found-system.html
Scientists have built artificial cells that are so life-like, they've tricked natural cells into thinking they're communicating with one of their own.
https://telegra.ph/Cells-01-30
https://telegra.ph/Cells-01-30
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Cells
These artificial cells are not alive - but they just passed the Turing test
Life on Earth depends on the existence of water, but despite it covering some 70 percent of the planet's surface, scientists have never really been sure where it all comes from
https://telegra.ph/Deep-01-30
https://telegra.ph/Deep-01-30
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Deep
Who needs asteroids? Earth makes its own water deep within the mantle
💡Earth’s magnetic poles are set to swap places - and we're totally unprepared 👉 https://telegramscience.blogspot.ru/2017/01/earths-magnetic-poles-are-set-to-swap.html?m=1
We all know that there's no air to breathe on the Moon, but new evidence suggests that the lunar surface is continually being showered by oxygen escaping Earth – and may have been for billions of years, since Earth's atmosphere developed
https://telegra.ph/Moon-01-31
https://telegra.ph/Moon-01-31
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Moon
Solar wind is blasting Earth's oxygen onto the surface of the Moon
Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert looks like real Door to Hell 👉 https://goo.gl/zA0Pg4
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured some of the closest-ever views of Saturn's rings, with new images revealing unprecedented levels of detail in the massive discs of icy particles orbiting the planet
https://telegra.ph/Saturn-01-31
https://telegra.ph/Saturn-01-31
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Saturn
NASA just captured some of the most mind-blowing images of Saturn's icy rings ever
For decades, scientists have been toying with the idea that our Universe is - or once was - a giant hologram, where the laws of physics require just two dimensions, but everything appears three-dimensional to us
https://telegra.ph/Universe-02-01
https://telegra.ph/Universe-02-01
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Universe
This could be the first observational evidence that our early Universe was once a hologram
💡This Beautiful 'Jewel Ice' Is So Rare, It Only Washes Up in Japan 👉 https://goo.gl/1u1n4T
Researchers Just Found Evidence of an Ancient 'Lost Continent' Under Mauritius
https://telegra.ph/Lost-Continent-02-01
https://telegra.ph/Lost-Continent-02-01
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Lost Continent
Newly discovered crystals expelled from volcanic eruptions on the island of Mauritius are billions of years older than the island itself, and are thought to be the remnants of an ancient microcontinent known as Mauritia.
Of the many unanswered questions that stand in the way of the Standard Model of physics being able to adequately explain the Universe and everything in it, the mystery of matter-antimatter asymmetry is one of the biggest
https://telegra.ph/CERN-02-02
https://telegra.ph/CERN-02-02
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CERN
New results from CERN could fill one of the biggest gaps in the Standard Model of physics
💡Scientists chasing the dream of quantum computing - technology that would grant us unprecentented processing power - just got their biggest break yet, because the first ever open-source blueprint for a practical quantum computer has been revealed. 👉 https://goo.gl/d9Cbw4
Nuclear fusion is premised on building technology that would replicate the reaction that naturally powers our Sun - two light atoms, in this case, hydrogen, are fused together under extreme temperatures to produce another element, helium
https://telegra.ph/nuc-02-03
https://telegra.ph/nuc-02-03
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nuc
Scientists have a plan to replace fossil fuels with nuclear fusion by 2030
💡When scientists uncover bones and other hard objects from the ground, they can sometimes find scraps of organic material attached. But nothing we've found comes close to the age of proteins recently discovered on a dinosaur fossil thought to date back 195 million years.
👉 https://goo.gl/5h2nj9
👉 https://goo.gl/5h2nj9
What's the Actual Difference Between a Hydrogen Bomb and an Atomic Bomb?
https://telegra.ph/Bomb-02-04
https://telegra.ph/Bomb-02-04
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Bomb
A hydrogen bomb is different than a regular atomic bomb, like the ones the US dropped on Japan near the end of World War II. Collectively, the two A-bombs that the US detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people.
Radiation Levels in the Fukushima Reactor Are Soaring Unexpectedly
https://telegra.ph/Fukushima-02-04
https://telegra.ph/Fukushima-02-04
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Fukushima
The radiation levels inside Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor No. 2 have soared in recent weeks, reaching a maximum of 530 sieverts per hour, a number experts have called "unimaginable".