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Seeing Things On Mars: A History of Martian Illusions
Humans have been seeing strange things on the surface of Mars for centuries. From the 1700s up through the present day, widespread fame has been available to anyone able to produce even the slightest bit of flimsy evidence that there’s Martian life. The most recent example was this week’s supposed revelation that a secret Mars base, […]
New super-dense forms of carbon outshine diamond
June 8, 2011
We can all only dream of owning rocks made of these. Simulations have revealed three stable forms of pure carbon that would sparkle more than diamond if synthesised. Carbon atoms can be combined in different configurations with widely varying properties. Graphite and diamond are the most familiar, while more exotic allotropes include graphene, with versatile electrical […]
Brand new telescope captures Omega Nebula in all its glory
June 8, 2011
VLT Survey Telescope in the Atacama desert will contribute to research into dark matter, dark energy and evolution of galaxies A spectacular stellar nursery shines through the gas and dust clouds of the Omega Nebula 5,500 light years from Earth in the heart of the Milky Way. The image is the first to be released […]
New Data Still Have Scientists in Dark Over Dark Matter
June 8, 2011
A dark-matter experiment deep in the Soudan mine of Minnesota now has detected a seasonal signal variation similar to one an Italian experiment has been reporting for more than a decade. The new seasonal variation, recorded by the Coherent Germanium Neutrino Technology (CoGeNT) experiment, is exactly what theoreticians had predicted if dark matter turned out […]
Periodic Table gets new elements (but no one knows what they do)
June 8, 2011
They have existed for less than a second each, but two new elements have been added to the Periodic Table Evidence for the existence of the two elements, the heaviest yet to be included, has been mounting for several years. A number of research teams had claimed to have produced the heavy elements by smashing […]
June 8, 2011
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