Largest water reservoir discovered in black hole.
The reservoir holds as much as 140 trillion oceans, or more than 4,000 times more than exists in the entire Milky Way. It exists as vapour spread across hundreds of light years.
While water has been found across much of the universe previously, this is interesting because of the fact this reservoir is 12 billion light years away, meaning that this water existed when the universe was only 1.6 billion years old.
A tiny second moon may once have orbited Earth before catastrophically slamming into the other one, a titanic clash that could explain why the two sides of the surviving lunar satellite are so different from each other
Reblogging myself because this is probably going to happen tonight.
i end up talking about the recrystallization of metamorphic minerals or star trek
*cough cough* chris *cough*
(Source: rainonthetinroof)
US researchers heat aluminium to 2,000,000 degrees.
US Department of Energy researchers have used the world’s most powerful laser to heat a tiny piece of aluminium foil to two million degrees, while probing the matter using the same laser. The experiment was the first of its kind in the world, and it all happened in less than a trillionth of a second.
The research marks a huge step towards understanding the fusion reactions found in the heart of starts, and will be used to help create future fusion reactions like in the National Ignition Facility, where scientists are working to create a fusion reaction that creates more energy than is put in, which in turn is hoped to become the major clean energy source of the future.
(Source: news.slac.stanford.edu)
Navigate the brain in a way that was never before possible; fly through major brain pathways, compare essential circuits, zoom into a region to explore the cells that comprise it, and the functions that depend on it.
The Human Connectome Project aims to provide an unparalleled compilation of neural data, an interface to graphically navigate this data and the opportunity to achieve never before realized conclusions about the living human brain.
Video: experimental quadrotors.
This video is amazing.
The experiments were performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, with vehicles developed by KMel Robotics.
(Source: youtube.com)
From desertstars:
I want to live in the overlap (draft)
(digital media, photos from UCSD Branson, HubbleSite, and art*setter)
