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A research team led by University of Alberta marine biologists has discovered a new species of sea sponge living off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
These sponges form globally unique reefs that support deep-sea biodiversity and are found in all oceans of the world.
Jul 20, 2020
Volcano eruption in Italy lights up sky
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
No damage nor injuries were reported after the volcano erupted on the Italian island of Stromboli.
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Jul 20, 2020
Spacesuits have been bulky since before Apollo 11. A skintight design may change that
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Circa 2019 o,.o.
The iconic, but bulky, spacesuit worn by Neil Armstrong hasn’t drastically changed in decades. A skintight design may change that.
Seeing is believing: a little frog (alive!) and a water ball levitate inside a Ø32mm vertical bore of a Bitter solenoid in a magnetic field of about 16 Tesla.
Jul 20, 2020
Mercedes-Benz EQS Will Have 435+ Miles / 700+ Km Of Range
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Next year’s Mercedes EQS electric luxury sedan will be one of the longest range EVs on the market, the first real thorn in Tesla’s side.
Jul 19, 2020
Poison pass: the man who became immune to snake venom
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
Circa 2018 o.,.o.
Rock singer Steve Ludwin has been injecting himself with snake venom for 30 years. In a strange twist, his bizarre habit could now save thousands of lives. His former partner Britt Collins tells his outlandish story.
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Jul 19, 2020
A swarm of flying ants stretched for miles over the UK and looked like rain on weather radar
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in category: futurism
Ow they are coming for you.
Ow they are coming for you.You can add giant swarms of flying ants to your 2020 scary-sounding insects Bingo card alongside murder hornets and hordes of noisy cicadas.
The UK’s Met Office shared radar imagery that showed the ants flying over the southeast part of the country.
“It’s not raining in London, Kent or Sussex, but our radar says otherwise,” it said in a tweet on Friday.
Jul 19, 2020
New World Record: Fermilab Achieves 14.5-Tesla Field for Accelerator Magnet
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, particle physics
The Fermilab magnet team has done it again. After setting a world record for an accelerator magnet in 2019, they have broken it a year later.
In a June 2020 test, a demonstrator magnet designed and built by the magnet team at the Department of Energy’s Fermilab achieved a 14.5-tesla field strength for an accelerator steering dipole magnet, surpassing their previous record of 14.1 T.
This test is an important step toward addressing the demanding magnet requirements of a future hadron collider under discussion in the particle physics community. If built, such a collider would be four times larger and almost eight times more powerful than the 17-mile-circumference Large Hadron Collider at the European laboratory CERN, which operates at a steering field of 7.8 T. Current future-collider designs estimate the field strength for a steering magnet — the magnet responsible for bending particle beams around a curve — to be up to 16 T.
