tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20664963900971886812024-03-12T20:23:34.658-07:00AIT Science BlogAthlone Institute of Technology; Library, Science Blog.AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.comBlogger278125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-3403162286134179292023-03-14T09:46:00.006-07:002023-03-14T09:46:49.472-07:0010 discoveries that prove Einstein was right about the universe — and 1 that proves him wrong<p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAQPqnyD-7HKXT07MSxSmZLOTQunNQHJ1IdR-B6-0wV4O-PfUA5aotM4dKSV9hirPnpChS5TGWkJfpGIl_zsF84K2jhPIdBK2r0mBI2DhjTxHozzIvlKs55ekNFC0Wudy_xdNhy9I37wfBkkSm88-1c2OggYLudkYCU1CZqXODPYQ2iYK5Ql60k5n/s584/Einstein.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="584" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMAQPqnyD-7HKXT07MSxSmZLOTQunNQHJ1IdR-B6-0wV4O-PfUA5aotM4dKSV9hirPnpChS5TGWkJfpGIl_zsF84K2jhPIdBK2r0mBI2DhjTxHozzIvlKs55ekNFC0Wudy_xdNhy9I37wfBkkSm88-1c2OggYLudkYCU1CZqXODPYQ2iYK5Ql60k5n/s320/Einstein.PNG" width="320" /></a></div>Legendary physicist <a class="hawk-link-parsed" data-component-tracked="1" href="https://www.livescience.com/albert-einstein.html" style="border: 0px; color: #026ca2; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Albert Einstein</u></a> was a thinker ahead of his time. Born March 14, 1879, Einstein entered a world where the dwarf planet Pluto had yet to be discovered, and the idea of spaceflight was a distant dream. Despite the technical limitations of his time, Einstein published his famous theory of general <a class="hawk-link-parsed" data-component-tracked="1" href="https://www.livescience.com/32216-what-is-relativity.html" style="border: 0px; color: #026ca2; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">relativity</u></a> in 1915, which made predictions about the nature of the universe that would be proven accurate time and again for more than 100 years to come.<p></p><div class="ad-unit" id="ad-unit-1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are 10 recent observations that proved Einstein was right about the nature of the cosmos a century ago — and one that proved him wrong.<br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Read more from <a href="https://www.livescience.com/10-discoveries-that-prove-einstein-was-right-about-the-universe-and-1-that-proves-him-wrong" target="_blank">Live Science</a></p>AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-71806494992590117632023-03-13T08:26:00.000-07:002023-03-13T08:26:02.499-07:00Study reveals how ionising radiation damages DNA and causes cancer<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXXHlHAjyh_04MOQ1jvGrP5dHKJ9xYe87UKtVsNhlXaVeTsR54IwrloOxcWXh2saYkzbLn3yEYOi9MOG1_1eWvzmo4zxBXVgiN4sPrDcaPY_0nj6_G2XnjXso6YBBHDV6qX88gF3xelckTme1_6fyo5C0j9A-enV18OqPmBpXN0tyXTC1_MplQPSn/s640/nuclear-power-plant-3545244_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="640" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXXHlHAjyh_04MOQ1jvGrP5dHKJ9xYe87UKtVsNhlXaVeTsR54IwrloOxcWXh2saYkzbLn3yEYOi9MOG1_1eWvzmo4zxBXVgiN4sPrDcaPY_0nj6_G2XnjXso6YBBHDV6qX88gF3xelckTme1_6fyo5C0j9A-enV18OqPmBpXN0tyXTC1_MplQPSn/s320/nuclear-power-plant-3545244_640.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0833em;">For the first time, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have been able to identify in human cancers two characteristic patterns of DNA damage caused by ionising radiation. These fingerprint patterns may now enable doctors to identify which tumours have been caused by radiation, and investigate if they should be treated differently. Published in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0833em;"> </span><em style="background: rgb(255, 255, 204); border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.9996px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nature Communications</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0833em;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0833em;">today, the results will also help to explain how radiation can cause cancer.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0833em; line-height: 1.3846em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3846em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ionising radiation, such as gamma rays, X-rays and radioactive particles can cause cancer by damaging DNA. However, how this happens, or how many tumours are caused by radiation damage has not been known.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0833em; line-height: 1.3846em; margin: 0px 0px 1.3846em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Read more at <a href="http://esciencenews.com/articles/2016/09/13/study.reveals.how.ionising.radiation.damages.dna.and.causes.cancer" target="_blank">Science News</a></p>AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-34167624844640732532023-03-13T08:20:00.002-07:002023-03-13T08:20:10.165-07:00Water helps assembly of biofibers that could capture sunlight<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.9996px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-5pQ324Pnl0E1aRelplRO799dkFC1UhTAu3RNzpnln9mmZ6IQNP_nJtCob4QTBDFEI7p2Pm7TmqGlfOJPfNuJEq-5Uwx1HEL03XlN0ViGnYSrHNOm9blavqxODpvFWoqJqga94J4lxCKgiPn3_s30KsLjlFmlKLd3WoSvzlOK2uQIMm5HGoFHHBI/s640/drop-of-water-578897_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-5pQ324Pnl0E1aRelplRO799dkFC1UhTAu3RNzpnln9mmZ6IQNP_nJtCob4QTBDFEI7p2Pm7TmqGlfOJPfNuJEq-5Uwx1HEL03XlN0ViGnYSrHNOm9blavqxODpvFWoqJqga94J4lxCKgiPn3_s30KsLjlFmlKLd3WoSvzlOK2uQIMm5HGoFHHBI/s320/drop-of-water-578897_640.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />When it comes to water, some materials have a split personality - and some of these materials could hold the key to new ways of harnessing solar energy. These small assemblies of organic molecules have parts that are hydrophobic, or water-fearing, while other parts are hydrophilic, or water-loving. Because of their schizoid nature, micelles organize themselves into spheres that have their hydrophilic parts turned out while their hydrophobic parts are shielded inside.<p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.9996px;">Read more at <a href="http://esciencenews.com/articles/2016/09/13/water.helps.assembly.biofibers.could.capture.sunlight" target="_blank">Science News</a></span></p>AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-64473012115370159182023-03-13T08:07:00.003-07:002023-03-13T08:07:31.150-07:00Black Holes – Resonance Physics <p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0_KST0k2N8kASMSbJ2DGx7V-LQdJ0c57nguKGZZwa3dFOxGtTk7A_wV3F2A8v_x7-mAtuxFkago2_QRVK27qfuNIyuWrHl7aBIRjDDo4TOFUiCR6MTWWtFeRC2j3TNlBn1t68cfbUSZ6ONPDBk7fPUi1Lw7jBsUBS1iOHPuZZZn664ic1zz9kAFW/s724/Black%20holes.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="724" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0_KST0k2N8kASMSbJ2DGx7V-LQdJ0c57nguKGZZwa3dFOxGtTk7A_wV3F2A8v_x7-mAtuxFkago2_QRVK27qfuNIyuWrHl7aBIRjDDo4TOFUiCR6MTWWtFeRC2j3TNlBn1t68cfbUSZ6ONPDBk7fPUi1Lw7jBsUBS1iOHPuZZZn664ic1zz9kAFW/s320/Black%20holes.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />Everything spins. Ever stop to think about that? I really hadn’t until I took the Resonance Academy course and they made this point. Super galactic clusters spin. Galaxies spin. Solar systems spin. The Earth spins (rotates on its axis). Electrons whirl around the nuclei of atoms.<p></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">When this spin speeds up, something very interesting can happen. According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, mass is a function of speed, with the speed of light as an upper boundary. Why is the speed of light an upper boundary? Because as anything approaches the speed of light, its mass increases to infinity</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Read more at <a href="https://www.planetaryphilosophy.com/2017/09/black-holes-unified-physics-part-2/" target="_blank">Plantaryphilosophy </a></p>AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-35727234940684182632022-01-25T09:24:00.002-08:002022-01-25T09:24:59.766-08:00 GENE JEANIE SCIENTISTS UNRAVEL AN INTRIGUING LINK BETWEEN MEDITATION AND IMMUNITY<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3CkaljP7J0mBdQskChHrAElrF9iHMPCxJYSEoHU0GBGdArBZVDlguzaIHg09mEAs9eMBNLe2-oOlP-t_9QtLuK6RvOnsPabKfXl6uXBRN6D5wMWIL0nx8fOSMi89OWHn1gzIfeJTJiKLX6mB4vbhDH8m32OYGN4XX0eVgxpGSuILV1sbc4kwGdLFI=s640" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3CkaljP7J0mBdQskChHrAElrF9iHMPCxJYSEoHU0GBGdArBZVDlguzaIHg09mEAs9eMBNLe2-oOlP-t_9QtLuK6RvOnsPabKfXl6uXBRN6D5wMWIL0nx8fOSMi89OWHn1gzIfeJTJiKLX6mB4vbhDH8m32OYGN4XX0eVgxpGSuILV1sbc4kwGdLFI=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>For Vijayendran Chandran, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida, the event at the Tennessee mountain retreat center provided an excellent chance to examine the impact of meditation at the molecular level within the body. Because participants’ diet and sleep schedules were closely monitored, he could compare before-and-after blood samples and know that those factors weren’t influencing any changes seen.</div><div><br /></div><div>“It’s very well-controlled,” Chandran told Inverse. “Everyone eats the same, everyone sleeps the same.”</div><div><br /></div><div>Meditation seemed to activate genes associated with the immune system. Specifically, Chandran and his co-authors found 220 genes known to be involved in generating an immune response that was effectively turned up following the retreat.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/meditation-boosts-immunity" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more at Inverse</a></div>AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-31704840799456358742022-01-05T05:54:00.002-08:002022-01-05T05:54:17.938-08:00Is the universe actually a fractal?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1H--RXw0sjZ1wCX5tjhQp9GjM0GDO6zzYpA0wHampLSlSwSoN2ru_7-f7wRqypjpjsaIRuZwBccHEfZzW6pt0y5yVgBFEbTajcmZ370D0W8ap7tz07rcbrJm5fA2ssZATOlRnP298XBYARh-UAjDNRqHV9K2Nje7wVfkQVxP5aVGEsHq9QShNYnCJ=s1536" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="1536" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1H--RXw0sjZ1wCX5tjhQp9GjM0GDO6zzYpA0wHampLSlSwSoN2ru_7-f7wRqypjpjsaIRuZwBccHEfZzW6pt0y5yVgBFEbTajcmZ370D0W8ap7tz07rcbrJm5fA2ssZATOlRnP298XBYARh-UAjDNRqHV9K2Nje7wVfkQVxP5aVGEsHq9QShNYnCJ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> I<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: utopia-std, serif; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">f you take a look at the structures that form in the Universe, many of the things we see on large scales appears at smaller scales, too. The dark matter halos that form around the largest bound structures we know of appear identical to the ones that form around Milky Way-sized galaxies, as well as the tiny substructure clumps that exist both around smaller galaxies and in intergalactic space itself. On the largest scales in the Universe, gravitation is the only force that matters. Under many circumstances, if you wait long enough, gravitational collapse will produce identical structures, just scaled up or down in size depending on the size of your system.</span><p></p><p style="--tw-backdrop-filter: var(--tw-backdrop-blur) var(--tw-backdrop-brightness) var(--tw-backdrop-contrast) var(--tw-backdrop-grayscale) var(--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate) var(--tw-backdrop-invert) var(--tw-backdrop-opacity) var(--tw-backdrop-saturate) var(--tw-backdrop-sepia); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: utopia-std, serif; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; position: relative;">The idea that, if you zoom in far enough, you’ll eventually encounter a structure that repeats the initial pattern you saw on larger scales, is mathematically realized in the concept of a fractal. When similar patterns repeatedly emerge at smaller and smaller scales, we can analyze them mathematically and see if they have the same statistical characteristics as the larger structures; if they do, it’s fractal-like in nature. So, is the Universe itself a fractal?</p><p style="--tw-backdrop-filter: var(--tw-backdrop-blur) var(--tw-backdrop-brightness) var(--tw-backdrop-contrast) var(--tw-backdrop-grayscale) var(--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate) var(--tw-backdrop-invert) var(--tw-backdrop-opacity) var(--tw-backdrop-saturate) var(--tw-backdrop-sepia); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: utopia-std, serif; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; position: relative;">The answer appears to be almost, but not quite. Here’s the science behind why.</p><p style="--tw-backdrop-filter: var(--tw-backdrop-blur) var(--tw-backdrop-brightness) var(--tw-backdrop-contrast) var(--tw-backdrop-grayscale) var(--tw-backdrop-hue-rotate) var(--tw-backdrop-invert) var(--tw-backdrop-opacity) var(--tw-backdrop-saturate) var(--tw-backdrop-sepia); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; 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So did the poet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(101, 101, 101); box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;">Rainer Maria Rilke</a>, in a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Year-Rilke-Daily-Readings-Rainer-ebook/dp/B002URBQEK" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(101, 101, 101); box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;">poem</a> e-mailed to me by writer <a href="https://www.ithl.org.il/page_16581" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(101, 101, 101); box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;">Dror Burstein</a>. Without ever having ventured into space (obviously), Rilke <a href="http://yearwithrilke.blogspot.com/2011/11/night.html" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(101, 101, 101); box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a> a century ago: “Night, shuddering in my regard, but in yourself so steady; inexhaustible creation, enduring beyond the fate of earth.” </span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is there a modern scientific interpretation to Rilke’s poem?</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The reality is that space in neither empty nor dark. Even outside galaxies, an astronaut could find at least one proton, on average, in every cubic meter. Also, one electron and half a billion photons and neutrinos, all left over from the big bang. Still, one might naively imagine that the space in between these particles is empty. Indeed, the <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atomism-ancient/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(101, 101, 101); box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;">early atomists</a> in ancient Greece <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/sia.2608" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(101, 101, 101); box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; text-decoration-line: none;">thought</a> that the vacuum is literally nothing.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Read more at <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/endless-creation-out-of-nothing/" target="_blank">Scientific America</a></span></p></div></div></div>AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-45343781288109678282021-07-19T06:42:00.002-07:002021-07-19T06:42:37.575-07:00Is the Universe a Fractal?<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1sS3i-OxO3AdE7ZAm-5ls52SY_JocGFvElU9uznGH-JxFWrxobMZZ6etxisdMuc1TtoxNb5UKBtFX5kc7-8pP4H5knL5EaWRhRQ7nXqbx0zXDvfUrUCENhXTD8FACnXUNuM6YNpMb_w/s1013/fractel.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="1013" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1sS3i-OxO3AdE7ZAm-5ls52SY_JocGFvElU9uznGH-JxFWrxobMZZ6etxisdMuc1TtoxNb5UKBtFX5kc7-8pP4H5knL5EaWRhRQ7nXqbx0zXDvfUrUCENhXTD8FACnXUNuM6YNpMb_w/s320/fractel.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />We find examples of fractals everywhere in nature. Tree branches, snowflakes, river deltas, cloud formations, and more. So it’s natural to ask the ultimate question: is the entire universe one giant fractal? The answer is…no, but sorta yes.<p></p><span id="more-151838" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Benoit Mandelbrot, who pretty much everyone agrees introduced the modern concept of fractals into the world (and even coined the term), was the first to wonder if <a href="https://www.universetoday.com/151745/the-crisis-in-cosmology-might-not-be-a-crisis-after-all/" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(15, 15, 15) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;">our universe</a> might be in the form of a fractal. At the time, astronomers had just begun constructing extensive deep-space catalogs of galaxies, and were just beginning to piece together the large-scale structure of the universe.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Since fractals are everywhere, maybe <a href="https://www.universetoday.com/134880/astronomy-cast-ep-444-fractals/" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: rgb(15, 15, 15) 0px -1px 0px inset; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 80ms ease-in 0s, box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 130ms ease-in-out 0s;">everywhere is a fractal.</a> Maybe when you zoom out and see a particular pattern of galaxies, you can zoom out even further and find the same pattern repeated. And so on and so on, all the way to infinity.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "libre franklin", "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.universetoday.com/151838/is-the-universe-a-fractal/" target="_blank">Read more at Universe today</a></p>AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-63807607087164805992021-07-14T05:24:00.008-07:002021-07-14T05:25:33.004-07:00An Entire Swarm of Black Holes Has Been Caught Moving Through The Milky Way<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> <span face=""open sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass</span><span face=""open sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"> </span><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/black-holes" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; font-family: "open sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="black holes">black holes</a><span face=""open sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglBYPyOVxioAdFiLIuocRptmrewPIa_Hd4v2xtqJSN-wOaQesc_20Q6YBOY-p9-8Gm7qDmXZ0Dj2aZkseHRU7doFI8jR1xbSnFTSFl7br4boyikQts5ObrokkxVPtUaQK2PADiGeoTT8M/s813/black+holes.JPG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="813" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglBYPyOVxioAdFiLIuocRptmrewPIa_Hd4v2xtqJSN-wOaQesc_20Q6YBOY-p9-8Gm7qDmXZ0Dj2aZkseHRU7doFI8jR1xbSnFTSFl7br4boyikQts5ObrokkxVPtUaQK2PADiGeoTT8M/s320/black+holes.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">If this finding can be validated, it will explain how the cluster came to be the way it is - with its stars spaced light-years apart, smearing out into a stellar stream stretching across 30,000 light-years.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">The star cluster in question is called Palomar 5, located around 80,000 light-years away. Such globular clusters are often considered 'fossils' of the early Universe. They're very dense and spherical, typically containing roughly 100,000 to 1 million very old stars; some, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_6397" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #005689; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">like NGC 6397</a>, are nearly as old as the Universe itself.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: "open sans", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 12px;">Read more at <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/a-whole-swarm-of-black-holes-has-been-identified-moving-through-the-milky-way" target="_blank">Science Alert.com</a></p>AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-61061760791384945632020-06-10T02:43:00.002-07:002021-07-14T05:25:43.053-07:00Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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TOI 700 d is one of only a few Earth-size planets discovered in a star's habitable zone so far. Others include several planets in the <a href="https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1487/10-things-all-about-trappist-1/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration-line: none;">TRAPPIST-1 system</a> and other worlds discovered by <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; text-decoration-line: none;">NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope</a>.</div>
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“TESS was designed and launched specifically to find Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby stars,” said Paul Hertz, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Planets around nearby stars are easiest to follow-up with larger telescopes in space and on Earth. Discovering TOI 700 d is a key science finding for TESS. Confirming the planet’s size and habitable zone status with Spitzer is another win for Spitzer as it approaches the end of science operations this January."</div>
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-33631457798600727882020-05-25T04:27:00.003-07:002020-05-25T04:27:49.755-07:00Earth’s magnetic field is mysteriously weakening, causing satellites and spacecraft to malfunction<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Scientists studying the phenomenon observed that an area known as the South Atlantic Anomaly has grown considerably in recent years, though the reason for it is not entirely clear.</div>
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Using data gathered by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Swarm constellation of satellites, researchers noted that the area of the anomaly dropped in strength by more than 8 per cent between 1970 and 2020.</div>
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"The new, eastern minimum of the South Atlantic Anomaly has appeared over the last decade and in recent years is developing vigorously," said Jürgen Matzka, from the German Research Centre for Geosciences.</div>
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"We are very lucky to have the Swarm satellites in orbit to investigate the development of the South Atlantic Anomaly. The challenge now is to understand the processes in Earth's core driving theses changes."</div>
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-8164623681470699932020-05-21T08:06:00.001-07:002020-05-21T08:06:41.433-07:00Enlisting Monoclonal Antibodies in the Fight Against COVID-19<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We now know that the immune system of nearly everyone who recovers from COVID-19 <a href="https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/05/07/study-finds-nearly-everyone-who-recovers-from-covid-19-makes-coronavirus-antibodies/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">produces antibodies</a> against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes this easily transmitted respiratory disease [1]. The presence of such antibodies has spurred hope that people exposed to SARS-CoV-2 may be protected, at least for a time, from getting COVID-19 again. But, in this post, I want to examine another potential use of antibodies: their promise for being developed as therapeutics for people who are sick with COVID-19.</div>
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In a recent paper in the journal <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Science</em>, researchers used blood drawn from a COVID-19 survivor to identify a pair of previously unknown antibodies that specifically block SARS-CoV-2 from attaching to human cells [2]. Because each antibody locks onto a slightly different place on SARS-CoV-2, the vision is to use these antibodies in combination to block the virus from entering cells, thereby curbing COVID-19’s destructive spread throughout the lungs and other parts of the body.</div>
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-65405412571645962452020-05-12T02:28:00.001-07:002020-05-12T02:28:07.728-07:00Black hole found 1,000 light years from Earth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Astronomers say they have discovered a black hole on our doorstep, just 1,000 light years from Earth.</div>
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It was found in a system called HR 6819, in the constellation Telescopium.</div>
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The system appears through a telescope as a single bright star, but telltale signs in the light emitted have previously revealed there to be two stars present.</div>
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Now experts say they have further analysed the data to discover there is another body within the system: a black hole with a mass over four times that of our sun, and the closest to Earth found so far.</div>
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-57354852332710097182020-05-07T08:02:00.000-07:002020-05-07T08:02:00.310-07:00The Best Websites for Expanding Your Scientific Knowledge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-7938324663300272892020-04-20T02:23:00.002-07:002020-04-20T02:23:32.570-07:00Seeking the essence of consciousness in the human brain: spirituality or science?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Are you ready for this? There’s an exciting debate underway among respected scientists over a theory more fascinating than Einstein’s about relativity. This new, science-based theory suggests that our consciousness, even our personalities, do not die when we do, have been around far longer than we have, and continue indefinitely.</div>
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So let’s take a quick look at how some distinguished scientists have come to acknowledge our very soul, and how the brain in each of us has an identifiable, measurably spiritual nature. And we can start with something as celebrated as things and places said to be “haunted.”</div>
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-1154420083369060342020-04-02T04:22:00.001-07:002020-04-02T04:22:13.930-07:00Swiss cantons 'halt' use of new 5G masts due to health concerns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Some Swiss regions have suspended the use of new mobile sites constructed for 5G due to health concerns.</div>
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The country is one of the most advanced 5G nations in Europe, with Swisscom and Sunrise among the first to launch next-generation networks. Speeds and coverage outpace other nations in the region and the government itself is interested in using 5G for applications like smart farming.</div>
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However, Switzerland is also home to a vocal community of anti-5G campaigners. Protests have taken place in major cities while rural mayors have declared their desire to remain ‘5G-free zones’.</div>
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-44727388436450913192020-02-27T06:57:00.001-08:002020-02-27T07:09:54.455-08:00There is an art to resting and it has nothing to do with your sleep habits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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How rested are you? Fresher than an Alpine daisy, or dragging yourself through the day, propped up by caffeine and anxiety? Feeling rested isn't about how much sleep we get, despite our obsession with sleep quality, monitoring its length, depth, and hygiene via sleep trackers, sleep-journaling, sleep rituals or sleep clinics. Rest is different from sleep, yet we frequently confuse the two. </div>
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In her new book, The Art of Rest, psychology broadcaster and author Claudia Hammond examines the pursuits we find restful, how we rest, and how rest works. It also looks at our attitudes to rest, and the cult of busyness.</div>
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<li style="line-height: 20px;">Being in the natural environment (53.1 per cent)</li>
<li style="line-height: 20px;">Being on their own (52.1 per cent)</li>
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-90530499238445251062019-09-13T05:09:00.002-07:002019-09-13T05:09:46.333-07:00Super massive black hole nearest Earth is becoming intensely bright!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The huge <a class="body-link" data-vars-event-id="c6" data-vars-item-name="BL-9103091-/topic/black-hole" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/black-hole" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #ec1a2e; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">black hole</a> at the heart of our <a class="body-link" data-vars-event-id="c6" data-vars-item-name="BL-9103091-/topic/galaxy" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/galaxy" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #ec1a2e; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">galaxy</a> has turned unusually bright – and scientists have no explanation for the dramatic behaviour.</div>
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It has started eating far more interstellar gas and dust than it has ever been seen doing before, researchers said. When they first spotted it, they thought they had accidentally looked a star – but further research has shown that the black hole is in fact showing behaviour that astronomers had never expected.</div>
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“We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole,” said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-senior author of the research. “It’s usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet.</div>
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-78610455772202267502019-09-13T05:00:00.001-07:002019-09-13T05:00:41.289-07:00Water vapor — and maybe even rain — found on distant world twice the size of Earth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Water vapor has been found in the atmosphere of a distant planet that’s just over twice the size of Earth. It’s the smallest world yet found with water in its surrounding atmosphere, and <a href="https://www.newswise.com/articles/water-detected-on-an-exoplanet-located-in-its-star-s-habitable-zone" style="border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e2127a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s ease 0s, background-color 0.1s ease 0s, fill 0.1s ease 0s; vertical-align: inherit;">it’s possible that it even rains liquid water there</a>. That makes this world a tantalizing candidate in the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life outside our cosmic neighborhood.</div>
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Finding water around an exoplanet (a world outside our Solar System) is particularly exciting for scientists because water is a critical ingredient for life on our planet. It could equally be pivotal for life that exists elsewhere in the Universe. Researchers have found this precious molecule around exoplanets before, but these worlds have not been suitable places for life to thrive. They’ve been large balls of gas, similar in size to Jupiter or Neptune, lacking any kind of surface for life as we know it to exist.</div>
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-42365308342489134582019-06-26T02:26:00.001-07:002019-06-26T02:26:37.198-07:00Nasa puts up deep-space atomic clock<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nasa has put a miniaturized atomic clock in orbit that it believes can revolutionize deep-space navigation.</div>
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About the size of a toaster, the device is said to have 50 times the stability of existing space clocks, such as those flown in GPS satellites.</div>
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If the technology proves itself over the next year, Nasa will install the clock in future planetary probes.</div>
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The timepiece was one of 24 separate deployments from a Falcon Heavy rocket that launched from Florida on Tuesday.</div>
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The other passengers on the flight were largely also demonstrators. They included a small spacecraft to test a new type of "green" rocket fuel, and another platform that aims to propel itself via the pressure of sunlight caught in a large membrane; what's often called a "lightsail".</div>
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For almost a century, the Big Bang theory has been bandied as the ultimate theory that describes the origin of the universe. The universe, as we know by it, was created in a massive explosion that created the majority of the matter which our physical laws abide by. Scientists believe that our galaxy, the Milky Way, came into existence billions of years ago, following the Big Bang and that the already-vast universe is an ever-expanding cosmos.</div>
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Now, a recent breakthrough states that black holes also have the singularity trait in common with the universe. The new study conducted by a team of progressive astrophysicists at Canada’s University of Waterloo has mentioned that the universe exists farther from the horizon of a huge black hole with higher dimensions, and it might have been present in the cosmos right from the very beginning of time.</div>
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AIT Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06398862283530766318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066496390097188681.post-14131924436749421222019-05-10T06:55:00.001-07:002019-05-10T06:55:25.887-07:00Nature crisis: Humans 'threaten 1m species with extinction'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On land, in the seas, in the sky, the devastating impact of humans on nature is laid bare in a compelling UN report.</div>
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One million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.</div>
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Nature everywhere is declining at a speed never previously seen and our need for ever more food and energy are the main drivers.</div>
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These trends can be halted, the study says, but it will take "transformative change" in every aspect of how humans interact with nature.</div>
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From the bees that pollinate our crops, to the forests that hold back flood waters, the report reveals how humans are ravaging the very ecosystems that support their societies.</div>
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Three years in the making, this global assessment of nature draws on 15,000 reference materials, and has been compiled by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). It runs to 1,800 pages.</div>
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