Etiket: Science
We want to get rid of PFAS, but that’s easier said than done | Science
PFAS stands for poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances. It is a collective name for millions of similar substances that have two very useful properties due to their chemical structure. The fabrics…
When do we reach the ‘technological singularity’ as in the science fiction film Transcendence?
What? The technological singularity, the moment when computers become inimitable smart. Where seen? In science fiction movie transcendence (2014) a computer becomes so intelligent that it solves, among other things,…
Astronauts lose a lot of bone mass during space missions and they don’t easily regain it | Science
Astronauts lose decades of bone mass as they travel into space. Even years after they return to Earth, bone density is not fully restored. Scientists warn in a new study,…
Tackle the climate catastrophe with the lessons of science fiction
On July 11, 1965, one Lionel Goettrieder invented a machine that could generate unlimited, clean energy from the rotation of the Earth. And lo and behold: by 2016 the world…
Discharging mercury into a Canadian lake, in the name of science
Two small electric airboats, filled with scientists and a tub of mercury, zigzag across a lake on a spring evening in 2001. “No Fishing” reads a sign on the shore…
Fossils of our early ancestors million years older than thought | Science
282 reacties 30 jun 2022 om 11:37Update: 2 minuten geleden<!–]† Fossils of one of our earliest ancestors found in a cave in South Africa are a million years older than…
‘What we do is not science. There’s a certain art in it’
Christine Lagarde of the European Central Bank and Jerome Powell of the US Federal Reserve System.Image via Reuters “I think we now understand better how little we understand about inflation,”…
New craters on the Moon after mysterious impact | Science
On March 4, a man-made object, for the first time unintentionally, slammed into the Moon. Afterwards, the LRO determined that there are two new impact craters. An eastern one is…
Very Rare Frozen Baby Mammoth Discovered in Canada | Science
3 reacties 26 jun 2022 om 07:38Update: 6 minuten geleden<!–]† Gold prospectors found a mummified woolly baby mammoth in the permafrost of Yukon, an area in northwestern Canada, on Tuesday.…
‘True descriptions from the permafrost’ by Donald Niedekker, a poetic reflection on time and space, history and science | review
Much is known about the wintering of Willem Barentsz and his crew on Nova Zembla. We know from the diaries of a junior officer on board, Gerrit de Veer, that…