AvatarAquinas Physics Six technological breakthroughs inspired by nature Engadget - InhabitatBy Cat DiStasio Biomimicry is an incredible field that seeks to unlock nature's deepest, darkest secrets and then use them to solve human problems. Many of the scientific breakthroughs in biomimicry have
AvatarAquinas Physics NASA: Earth’s magnetic poles are ‘switching’ with catastrophic consequences for humanity express.co.uk - Jon Austin THE Earth could be left powerless to defend against blasts of solar radiation from the Sun for up to 200 YEARS, leaving us at risk from skin cancer …
AvatarAquinas Physics 19 impossibly detailed views of Earth from space at night Business InsiderNothing makes me feel more connected to the rest of the human race than seeing the Earth from space at night. National borders vanish, and rivers of light unite our towns and cities into a single glowing
AvatarAquinas PhysicsAstronomy Winning astronomy photos of the year show our amazing universe (pictures) CNET - Amanda Kooser Winners of the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2015 contest captured auroras, galaxies and grand skyscapes.
AvatarAquinas Physics The Physics of Federer-Nadal bigthink.com - Daniel Honan If you're a tennis fan, and a fan of Rafa Nadal in particular, the last seven months probably felt like the period in rock n' roll history in which …
AvatarAquinas PhysicsClimate An energy expert’s tweetstorm is the perfect snapshot of climate change's danger Business InsiderWe've all heard the climate scientists warning us that we need to act as soon as possible to reduce our emissions and stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. But somehow most people still don't
AvatarAquinas Physics A New Study Says Spending Time In Nature Does Something Amazing to Your Brain Country Living - Maria Carter The next time you're feeling frustrated or angry and someone tells you to "go take a hike," you might want to take their advice literally. A walk in …
AvatarAquinas Physics You Know What's Pretty Weird? Bicycle Physics VICE - Michael ByrneI remember with surprising clarity the day I was to learn to ride a bike the hard way. I'm not sure if that's how it was put exactly, but it probably involved something to the effect of learning to ride
AvatarAquinas Physics Einstein: His Space and Times by Steven Gimbel, review: 'a complex nut' The Telegraph - By Nicholas ShakespeareFrom fathering a secret daughter to declining the presidency of Israel, Albert Einstein lived a life of mystery, argues Nicholas Shakespeare In 1905, a young patent clerk in his office in Bern wrote a
AvatarAquinas Physics Some first results from the new, higher-energy Large Hadron Collider The Guardian - Jon ButterworthOn 3 June this year, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN began delivering particle collisions at an energy 63% higher than previously achieved. This week in Vienna, first physics results were presented.
AvatarAquinas Physics 3D 'white graphene' could keep electronics cool - Futurity futurity.org - Mike Williams-Rice Three-dimensional structures of boron nitride might be the right stuff to keep small electronics cool. Rice University researchers Rouzbeh Shahsavari …
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AvatarAquinas Physics 21 Trips of a Lifetime travelchannel.com The saltwater in Iceland's Blue Lagoon, the world's largest geothermal pool, gets completely renewed every 40 hours and always hovers around 100 …
AvatarAquinas Physics NASA Releases New Image of Earth TIME - Alexandra SifferlinNASA released the first image of Earth from its Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite on Monday. The image shows a sunlit Earth from one million miles away. NASA says the photo was snapped with a Earth
AvatarAquinas Physics People keep shining laser pointers at planes, and it needs to stop Quartz - Marc BainMost of the time laser pointers, those dreaded tools of classrooms and conference rooms, seem relatively innocuous, if irritating. But the light from a laser can travel more than a mile, and when pointed
AvatarAquinas PhysicsJames P. Allison How Did Life Begin on Earth? | Quanta Magazine Quanta Magazine Ronald Rivest of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology describes the role of computers in voting and what makes elections trustworthy. Omololu …
AvatarAquinas PhysicsAnt-Man There is Some Real Science Behind the New 'Ant-Man' Film TIME - Tara JohnThere is some science behind shrinking a man to the size of an ant, according to quantum physicist, Dr Spiros Michalakis, who was the scientific advisor to the latest Marvel superhero film, Ant-Man. Michalakis,
AvatarAquinas Physics 10 Sci-Fi Tech That's So Close We Can Barely Contain Ourselves whatculture.com - Stevie Shephard Science fiction has managed to predict a lot of things throughout the years. From mobile phones to the moon landings, writers have always be one step …
AvatarAquinas Physics Angela Merkel's incredible rise from quantum chemist to the world's most powerful woman Business Insider - Amanda MaciasGermany's Angela Merkel is the undisputed leader of her political party, and she faces hardly any opposition in her now third parliamentary term as chancellor. In honor of the Bundeskanzlerin's birthday,
AvatarAquinas PhysicsHiggs Boson Stephen Hawking Says 'God Particle' Could Wipe Out the Universe Live Science - Kelly Dickerson Stephen Hawking bet Gordon Kane $100 that physicists would not discover the Higgs boson. After losing that bet when physicists detected the particle …
AvatarAquinas Physics Fossil Fuels Just Lost the Race Against Renewables Bloomberg - Tom Randall The race for renewable energy has passed a turning point. The world is now adding more capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, …
AvatarAquinas Physics 'The world is finally producing renewable energy at an industrial scale' The Guardian - Achim SteinerClean energy has spread to every corner of the globe, with more than 100,000 megawatts of capacity installed last year Renewables are finally becoming a globally significant source of power, according
AvatarAquinas Physics Biosphere Collapse: The Biggest Economic Bubble Ever ecointernet.org - by Dr. Glen Barry · The global environment collapses as in the pursuit of short-term growth, humanity overruns natural ecosystems including the atmosphere that make …
AvatarAquinas Physics Pluto is Geologically Active thespacewriter.com - C.C. Petersen It’s great news that Pluto is geologically active, based on the fantastic images from New Horizons. I was hoping it would be, but the level of …
AvatarAquinas Physics Models of Sustainability: Sweden Runs Out of Garbage anonhq.com - hqanon When Sweden runs out of its own garbage, it offers a service to the rest of garbage-bloated Europe: importing excess waste from other …
