The new black
Common black paint absorbs, at most, 90 per cent of the light that hits it. So a new coating developed by Nasa engineers that absorbs more than 99 per cent of the incoming spectrum – not just visible...
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Wireless data at top speed
Digital cameras and camcorders deliver high resolution film sequences that are several gigabytes in size. These can take several minutes to transfer wirelessly to your home computer via Bluetooth. Now...
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Keck observations bring weather of Uranus into sharp focus
In 1986, when Voyager swept past Uranus, the probe’s portraits of the planet were “notoriously bland”, disappointing scientists, yielding few new details of the planet and its atmosphere, and giving...
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84 million stars and counting
Using a whopping nine-gigapixel image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars...
View ArticleIce on the heavily frozen Great Lakes
On 19 February 2014, MODIS aboard Nasa’s Aqua satellite flew over the Great Lakes and captured this striking image of the heavily frozen Great Lakes The post Ice on the heavily frozen Great Lakes...
View ArticleNanoinjections Let Mice See Infrared Light
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