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Last Wednesday, scientists reported that they have witnessed a rare event that occurs about every 10,000 years.  These scientists watched as a massive black hole consumed a star that had gotten to close to the black hole.  Black holes usually go undetected at in galaxies, however they can occasionally be tracked by the leftover scraps [...]

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We had the first glimpse of our home planet deep space 45 years ago today. The fact is that on August 23, 1966, NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of Earth from the moon’s orbit when nobody knew how our home planet looked like. Actually we cannot really say that he took the [...]

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Have you ever heard of getting too many X-rays is a bad thing; that the radiation may cause damage to your body?  Well an association of medical physicists have warned many people not to decline such procedures because they might believe them to be harmful.  They say the benefits far outweigh the risks, and that even the most [...]

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There are only 96 days left to the landing of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory on the Gale Crater on Mars.  After 36 years of debate and confusion it is on its way to search for organic matter that eluded the two Viking probes.  This rover, named Curiosity, will be the largest to land on Mars so [...]

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A team of scientists at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University have renovated an old technology, that is used during wireless communication, and applied it to modern-day devices.  This new technology is called Touché, and it is able to recognize the position of your body and convey the information to the device it is hooked [...]

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A new restaurant in Ashland, Oregon has opened a Mongolian-style grill restaurant that uses grape seed oil infused with hashish to attract medical marijuana patients. Although not very successful in the past, restaurants like these are still pushing hard to get their product out. As well as everyday medical marijuana patients, the store focuses on chemotherapy [...]

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A team at Princeton University discovered that folding the solar panels causes a dramatic increase in power. Studies show that there is a 47% increase in power from these new folded solar panels. These folds channel the light directly into the  photo voltaic material. The scientists at Princeton got this idea from folding a leaf. Flat surfaces absorb some light but [...]

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Nanoparticles are extremely small for human beings to see them, however it is becoming possible for today’s scientists. They can not only to see them, but also to look inside at how the atoms are arranged in three dimensions using a technique, which is called nanocrystallography. Nevertheless, these powerful machines are only available at a handful of [...]

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Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics and also at the Humboldt University have created luminous plasma clouds underwater by using electrical discharges. They are trying to recreate the mysterious slow moving orbs rarely seen in thunderstorms. They are trying to understand how these orbs are created and how they can factor in to the [...]

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