Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe?By Lisa ZygaThe new study suggests that the universe that came before our own universe was its identical twin. Image credit: NASA and ESA.The new study suggests that the universe that came before our own universe was its identical twin. Image credit: NASA and ESA.Until very recently, asking what [...]
ESA Portal – Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet
Hubble finds first organic molecule on extrasolar planet HD 189733b transiting its parent star 19 March 2008The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually identifying signs of life on a planet [...]
GE Announces Printable OLED Breakthrough | EcoGeek
Imagine a world where your wall glows at a brightness determined by ambient lighting and personal preference. Lamps might soon be obsolete, and the whole discussion about swtiching light bulbs completely moot. GE Announces Printable OLED Breakthrough | EcoGeek
Surely this isn’t a good idea – building an exact model of the brain using microchips
In the basement of a university in Lausanne, Switzerland sit four black boxes, each about the size of a refrigerator, and filled with 2,000 IBM microchips stacked in repeating rows. Together they form the processing core of a machine that can handle 22.8 trillion operations per second. It contains no moving parts and is eerily [...]
The Milky Way is twice the size we thought it was – News and Events – University of Sydney
Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy – a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across – is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years that had been previously thought.Proving not all science requires big, expensive apparatus, Professor Gaensler and colleagues, Dr Greg Madsen, Dr Shami Chatterjee [...]
Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered – New York Times
Astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light-years across the galaxy — the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets.“It looks like a scale model of our solar system,” said Scott Gaudi, an assistant [...]
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