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Space Force Found Cold War Balloon Satellite S73-7 After 25 Years Off the Radar
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Mai 2, 2024
Space Force Found Cold War Balloon Satellite S73-7 After 25 Years Off the Radar
The 18th Space Defense Squadron reacquired object 7244, a 1974 infrared calibration balloon that failed to inflate. It may be a dispenser fragment, and it has barely lost altitude.
Cold Beer Tastes More Like Ethanol Because Chain-Like Clusters Take Over Near 41 Degrees
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Mai 1, 2024
Cold Beer Tastes More Like Ethanol Because Chain-Like Clusters Take Over Near 41 Degrees
A Matter study mapped the ethanol-water clusters that make beer taste more alcoholic near 41°F, while warmed baijiu moves the other way. Later spectra say the mixture may not even…
NASA Paid $300,000 for a Mars Menu While a Tomato Doubled in Fake Martian Dirt and the Carrot Lost
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Mai 1, 2024
NASA Paid $300,000 for a Mars Menu While a Tomato Doubled in Fake Martian Dirt and the Carrot Lost
NASA's Mars to Table prize and a new dirt-eating microbe still have not fixed the perchlorate problem Wageningen measured when tomatoes doubled and carrots lost.
Our Universe May Ride an Expanding Bubble, and the Dark Energy Offered to Explain It Will Not Sit Still
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Januar 5, 2019
Our Universe May Ride an Expanding Bubble, and the Dark Energy Offered to Explain It Will Not Sit Still
Uppsala physicists put our cosmos on the skin of a bubble in an extra dimension. DESI's map made a constant dark energy look shaky, then a 2026 Lyman-alpha measurement tugged…
A Laser-Etched Black Metal Distills Real Ocean Water in Sunlight, Stacks the Salt as a Solid, and Pulls Lithium From Great Salt Lake Brine
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Juli 5, 2017
A Laser-Etched Black Metal Distills Real Ocean Water in Sunlight, Stacks the Salt as a Solid, and Pulls Lithium From Great Salt Lake Brine
Rice's 2017 solar membrane, Rochester's brine-free black metal, and MIT's battery-free New Mexico trial sit beside a $2.8 billion Australian plant that still returns brine to the sea.
Two Consciousness Theories Failed the Same Brain Scan, and Panpsychism Still Does Not Own the Universe
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Juni 29, 2017
Two Consciousness Theories Failed the Same Brain Scan, and Panpsychism Still Does Not Own the Universe
A 2025 Nature study left Integrated Information Theory and Global Workspace missing key predictions. Panpsychism remains a philosophical bet, not a lab result.