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The Secret to Planet Formation Might Be Hiding in the Fulton Gap
There are over 2,300 exoplanets that have been discovered, but there seems to be a gap in the data. Why is this and what can it tell us about our universe? Read More: Weird Worlds? Yes — by the Trillion https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/blog/1555… “It’s been dubbed the Fulton gap, after Benjamin Fulton, lead author on a paper describing it. The Kepler data show that planets of a certain size-range are rare – those between 1.5 and 2 times the size of Earth.” As Planet Discoveries Pile Up, a Gap Appears in the Pattern https://www.quantamagazine.org/as-pla… “Dragomir said the radius gap points to possible rules both about how planets are formed, and what happens…
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How Close Are We to Controlling Machines With Our Minds?
From outsmarting the self check-out to providing options for patients with communication disorders, merging mind with machine could be the next frontier for humanity. How close are we to controlling machines with our minds? This New Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Works Without a Brain Implant https://www.sciencealert.com/new-robo… “A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is… creating the first noninvasive mind-controlled robot arm that exhibits the kind of smooth, continuous motion previously reserved only for systems involving brain implants – putting us one step closer to a future in which we can all use our minds to control the tech around us.” China Unveils First Chip Designed Specifically for Mind-Reading https://futurism.com/the-byte/brain-c… “The signals…
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Why Quantum Computing Requires Quantum Cryptography
Quantum theory may seem like an obscure subject of questionable relevance to the average person. But in fact, much of our technological world depends on our understanding of the quantum properties of the subatomic universe. And soon, perhaps very soon, we’ll be interacting with the weirdness of quantum mechanics even more directly – with the coming of quantum computing and the quantum internet. Quantum computing is a topic that’s that has been well covered, so we’re going to be talking about the quantum internet. Specifically quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution – the foundations of the prospective quantum internet. We may come back to the quantum computer in detail –…
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Scientists Created a Plastic That’s Infinitely Recyclable
Plastic is suffocating the planet, but what if we could make recycling plastic more efficient? This Lawrence Berkeley National Lab team has created a brand new kind of plastic that can be recycled endlessly. Are You Seasoning Your Food With Microplastics? – https://youtu.be/ZFgpudNSArI Read More: Closed-loop recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155… “The closed-loop polymer life cycles enabled by PDKs contrast with those for conventional polymers, which are synthesized using irreversible bond-forming reactions that make it difficult and costly to recover the original monomers in high purity. Furthermore, while dynamic covalent polymers have been designed, in principle, around the ability to exchange bonds27, examples of energy-efficient…
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The Newest Form of Water Is Hot and Black, Wait What?
It only took diamonds, x-rays, and a bunch of ultra-powerful lasers to create our newest form of water, Ice XVIII. And it might be the key to unlocking what’s inside the mysterious ice planets of our solar system. This New State of Matter Is a Liquid and a Solid at the Same Time! – https://youtu.be/Quuc9_qDMWs Read More: Nanosecond X-ray diffraction of shock-compressed superionic water ice https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158… “The atomic structure of dynamically compressed H2O is characterized in situ using angular dispersive XRD recorded on multiple image plate detector panels (Fig. 1b). Focusing 16 laser beams on an iron (Fe) foil generates an intense X-ray pulse at 6.7 keV resulting from helium…
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There Are Gravity Pulses Hiding in the Universe’s Most MASSIVE Stars
Blue supergiant stars some of the hottest, biggest young stars in the universe, and their molten cores can reveal more about the formation of everything. How Scientists Found the Universe’s First Type of Molecule – https://youtu.be/lxepnATltvU Blue supergiant stars open doors to a concert in space https://nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content… “Stars come in different shapes, sizes and colours. Some stars are similar to our Sun and live calmly for billions of years. More massive stars, those born with ten times or more the mass of the Sun, live significantly shorter and active lives before they explode and expel their material into space in what is called a supernova. Blue supergiants belong to this…
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How NASA Mission Designers Invent Futuristic Spacecraft
From journeying to distant worlds to catching asteroids, this NASA conceptual design team turns the spacecraft of your dreams into reality. Watch more Focal Point! | https://bit.ly/2VOJIQv Read More: This Jumping Probe Might Explore Neptune’s Biggest Moon https://www.popsci.com/this-jumping-p… “After the probe (called the Triton Hopper) lands on Triton, it would use radioactive isotopes to heat ice that it mined from the moon to drive rocket-powered jumps up to a kilometer high and five kilometers long. Steven Oleson, the principal investigator on the Triton Hopper, says the probe has the potential to explore a large portion of the moon’s surface. “We want to go from the equator to the pole.”” A…
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Giant Flow Batteries Could Power Your City In The Future
China is building vanadium redox flow batteries to power its cities in the future, but what exactly are they and how do they work? Diamond Nuclear Batteries Are Forever… Sort Of- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj7z8… Read More: The Better Batteries That Will Power Your Phone — and a Green Future https://news.usc.edu/trojan-family/ba… ““One of the major problems with lithium-ion batteries is that lithium is not an abundant material, so it’s just not sustainable” says Sri Narayan, professor of chemistry at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and a scientific co-director at the USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute. “In fact, if you look into the distant future, we could run out of…
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Inside NASA’s Race Back To Neptune’s Icy Moon
Could Neptune’s moon, Triton, harbor life? NASA scientists are working on a mission concept that after 30 years could finally return us back to this icy world. Watch more Focal Point! | https://bit.ly/2WvQRBt Read More: Next Stop, Triton? Here’s Two Wild Ideas to Explore Neptune’s Weirdest Moon https://www.space.com/triton-mission-… “Neptune’s moon Triton is one of the strangest worlds in the solar system — and that’s why scientists are exploring mission concepts that could give them a detailed look at it.” Implementation of Trident: A Discovery-Class Mission to Triton https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lps… “By launching during 2026, Trident takes advantage of a rare, efficient gravity-assist alignment, to capitalize on a narrow – but closing –…
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The Real Science Of The EHT Black Hole
You can learn more about CuriosityStream at https://curiositystream.com/spacetime How do you take a picture of a black hole and what can we learn from it? Our first ever actual bona fide photo of a black hole, made by the Event Horizon Telescope and revealed to the world in a press conference on April 10th. Since then it’s got plenty of coverage, because … I mean look at it. It’s a freaking black hole. It’s black, it’s holey, it’s everything we hoped it would be. Now that the giddiness has subsided and I personally have stopped spending hours on end staring at a black spot, we can take a breath and…
