Star Wars fans will be happy to know that lightsabers are actually possible. The blades in a lightsaber are built with plasma inside the magnetic field that can some day take shape for real. However, the bad news is, that to use one will prove to be a very bad idea.
Subway will rework on its menu board to now display calorie detail for all menu items. This is a welcome change after health experts have requested the food industry to give the consumers more information about the food they eat.
The world's most powerful X-ray laser upgrade will be open to a second laser beam that will enable it to fire at a million pulses per second.
More information has been gathered on the nature of galaxy evolution and mergers through data collected from pulsars remaining after stars go supernova.
There are concerns regarding countries that are most affected by climate change. How can we help them to adapt and drive change?
Grauer's gorilla, the world's largest primate, faces the threat of extinction due to violence, warfare, mining and poaching in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
NASA's Opportunity rover captured an image of a distant dust devil on Mars, the first one it has seen in its 12-year stay.
Researchers, including those of Indian-origin have now developed a low-cost and lightweight titanium alloy, which is the strongest as of now and it may help build lighter vehicles that use less fuel. The improved titanium alloy which is supposed to be stronger than any commercial titanium alloy currently on the market obtains its strength from the way atoms are arranged to form a special nanostructure.
Scientists have discovered a rare triple-star system with a gas giant planet similar in size to Jupiter. Researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in US found that a binary system one assumed to be a single star was actually a pair of stars orbiting one another and are actually a part of the triple-star system. This is rare that three stars are appearing in the sky. The new discovery is the fourth and the closest one yet allowing for a better look than possible, researchers said.
A tribe that sits on the edge and is the birth place of a nuclear lab has experienced contamination, reports the Associated Press. Now the pueblo is receiving state fund to help eliminate wastes caused from the nuclear lab.
Scientists in a new explanation have said about how “gypsum” formed may change and formulate the way we process important building material as well as allow us to interpret past water availability on other planets such as Mars. Despite its importance, until now researchers have not understood how gypsum grows from ions in solutions.
a post wrongly posted Michael Schumacher’s health status as a prank that is likely to attract angered response from fans.
Mars may not exactly have a Himalayan Range but these mile-high mounds may qualify as mountains, being carved by wind and climate over billions of years.
We all wonder what others think about us. A lot of energy and time is spent on wondering if that special someone thinks we are attractive. Scientists may have the answer you are looking for.
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