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The World's Space Agencies Are About to Simulate a Doomsday Asteroid Scenario
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It came out of nowhere. Just a few short weeks ago – in an alternate reality otherwise identical to our own – it popped up on our screens: a giant asteroid hurtling through space, and headed straight for us.
We are starting to collect initial job proposals for freelancers
- That’s for our new channel for freelancers
- Sent your job proposals here:👉 https://forms.gle/L7CGwhznwjw7pa2L8
- Just when we will have 5 job proposals for freelancers, we will announce channel link
😊 It’s all free for now
- That’s for our new channel for freelancers
- Sent your job proposals here:👉 https://forms.gle/L7CGwhznwjw7pa2L8
- Just when we will have 5 job proposals for freelancers, we will announce channel link
😊 It’s all free for now
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Science in telegram pinned «We are starting to collect initial job proposals for freelancers - That’s for our new channel for freelancers - Sent your job proposals here:👉 https://forms.gle/L7CGwhznwjw7pa2L8 - Just when we will have 5 job proposals for freelancers, we will announce channel…»
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The Hubble Space Telescope Has Just Found Solid Evidence of Interstellar Buckyballs
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The Hubble Space Telescope Has Just Found Solid Evidence of Interstellar Buckyballs
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The Hubble Space Telescope Has Just Found Solid Evidence of Interstellar Buckyballs
In the bewildering quagmire that is the gas between the stars, the Hubble Space Telescope has identified evidence of ionised buckminsterfullerene, the carbon molecule known colloquially as "buckyballs".
🤔 Looks like our small experiment with lunching new channel for freelancers and hirers goes a bit wrong…
We’ve got soooo many feedback, but…. 99% was from freelancers, not from those who want’s to hire freelancer 🤷♂️
❗️Anyway – our new channel should be filled in with job proposals first, so please – fill the form ☝️ only if you have something to propose to freelancer and searching for a person able to help you.
⛔️ Don’t feel the form if you are searching for the job – you will find the list of proposal in the channel we will announce later.
Thanks!
📝 Form for hirers, please fill it ones again if you are a real hirer: https://forms.gle/L7CGwhznwjw7pa2L8
We’ve got soooo many feedback, but…. 99% was from freelancers, not from those who want’s to hire freelancer 🤷♂️
❗️Anyway – our new channel should be filled in with job proposals first, so please – fill the form ☝️ only if you have something to propose to freelancer and searching for a person able to help you.
⛔️ Don’t feel the form if you are searching for the job – you will find the list of proposal in the channel we will announce later.
Thanks!
📝 Form for hirers, please fill it ones again if you are a real hirer: https://forms.gle/L7CGwhznwjw7pa2L8
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Jobs vacancy form
Please provide your job description in the following way
We accidentally created a new wonder material that could revolutionise batteries and electronics
Some of the most famous scientific discoveries happened by accident. From Teflon and the microwave oven to penicillin, scientists trying to solve a problem sometimes find unexpected things. This is exactly how we created phosphorene nanoribbons – a material made from one of the universe’s basic building blocks, but that has the potential to revolutionise a wide range of technologies.
We’d been trying to separate layers of phosphorus crystals into two-dimensional sheets. Instead, our technique created tiny, tagliatelle-like ribbons one single atom thick and only 100 or so atoms across, but up to 100,000 atoms long. We spent three years honing the production process, before announcing our findings.
Some of the most famous scientific discoveries happened by accident. From Teflon and the microwave oven to penicillin, scientists trying to solve a problem sometimes find unexpected things. This is exactly how we created phosphorene nanoribbons – a material made from one of the universe’s basic building blocks, but that has the potential to revolutionise a wide range of technologies.
We’d been trying to separate layers of phosphorus crystals into two-dimensional sheets. Instead, our technique created tiny, tagliatelle-like ribbons one single atom thick and only 100 or so atoms across, but up to 100,000 atoms long. We spent three years honing the production process, before announcing our findings.
Dartmouth’s Mars Greenhouse Wins 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge
A team of Dartmouth engineering students has been named winners of the 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge for its innovative design for a Mars greenhouse that can grow food and sustain a crew of astronauts on a future mission to the red planet.
The team, made up of undergraduates at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, pitched their winning proposal to top scientists at NASA and National Institute of Aerospace at NASA’s Langley Research Center this week in Hampton, Virginia, where they competed against four other top university-team finalists for the top honor.
“The BIG Idea Challenge has been an amazing experience and I’m thrilled that we won,” said Zoe Rivas ’18, co-manager of the Dartmouth team. “I’m so excited to see what happens next with our greenhouse design and what NASA will do with all of the great ideas we saw in this competition.”
A team of Dartmouth engineering students has been named winners of the 2019 NASA BIG Idea Challenge for its innovative design for a Mars greenhouse that can grow food and sustain a crew of astronauts on a future mission to the red planet.
The team, made up of undergraduates at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, pitched their winning proposal to top scientists at NASA and National Institute of Aerospace at NASA’s Langley Research Center this week in Hampton, Virginia, where they competed against four other top university-team finalists for the top honor.
“The BIG Idea Challenge has been an amazing experience and I’m thrilled that we won,” said Zoe Rivas ’18, co-manager of the Dartmouth team. “I’m so excited to see what happens next with our greenhouse design and what NASA will do with all of the great ideas we saw in this competition.”
Robot Astrobees Honey and Bumble report for duty on the ISS
On April 19, the Cygnus spacecraft docked at the International Space Station. Among plenty of other cargo, it carried special passengers: two small robots named Honey and Bumble. These “Astrobees” will soon become part of the station’s working crew, helping with such tasks as checking inventory, recording astronauts and experiments and running their own research projects.
One of their first tasks will be to take inventory, saving astronauts from some mindless grunt work. The Astrobees will use an RFID scanner, like those at grocery store check-outs, to scan items on the station. As long as items are tagged, the robots should have no problem taking stock. But such simple tasks are only the beginning.
Video: https://youtu.be/IEuAVK1nNp0
On April 19, the Cygnus spacecraft docked at the International Space Station. Among plenty of other cargo, it carried special passengers: two small robots named Honey and Bumble. These “Astrobees” will soon become part of the station’s working crew, helping with such tasks as checking inventory, recording astronauts and experiments and running their own research projects.
One of their first tasks will be to take inventory, saving astronauts from some mindless grunt work. The Astrobees will use an RFID scanner, like those at grocery store check-outs, to scan items on the station. As long as items are tagged, the robots should have no problem taking stock. But such simple tasks are only the beginning.
Video: https://youtu.be/IEuAVK1nNp0
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Astrobee: ISS Robotic Free Flyer
The Astrobee project is developing a set of three free-flying robots that will operate inside the International Space Station (ISS) alongside astronauts. Astrobee’s primary objectiveis to provide a zero-g research facility for guest scientists. The Astrobees…
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Asteroid Samples Found With Water Hint Half Our Oceans Could Have Come From Space
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Asteroid Samples Found With Water Hint Half Our Oceans Could Have Come From Space
Samples of the asteroid Itokawa sent back to Earth from Japan's Hayabusa probe are finally revealing their secrets - including the fact that they're rich in water.
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Mind-Bending Cryptography Puzzle Gets an 'Early' Solution After Just 20 Years
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Mind-Bending Cryptography Puzzle Gets an 'Early' Solution After Just 20 Years
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Mind-Bending Cryptography Puzzle Gets an 'Early' Solution After Just 20 Years
All the way back in 1999, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science was celebrating its 35th year of research, it gave itself an unusual birthday present: a large lead container, shaped like a paper bag, sculpte
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Tiny Deep-Sea Creatures Are Building Their Own Armour to Survive The Crushing Depths
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Tiny Deep-Sea Creatures Are Building Their Own Armour to Survive The Crushing Depths
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Life isn't easy at the bottom of Challenger Deep – at nearly 11,000 metres (36,000 feet) the deepest point of the oceans – and scientists just shed some light on how tiny creatures are able to survive at these phenomenal depths.
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We Just Got a Huge Step Closer to Solving The Bizarre Physics of Glass
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We Just Got a Huge Step Closer to Solving The Bizarre Physics of Glass
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We Just Got a Huge Step Closer to Solving The Bizarre Physics of Glass
For something so commonplace, glass is actually an incredible mystery; an enigma of physics that has defied understanding since humans first encountered it millennia ago.
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Terrifying Case Study Shows Why Popping Your Neck Could Actually Kill You
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Josh Hader's neck was bothering him - again. He'd been feeling the discomfort for a couple weeks and recently thought some light stretching could provide relief.
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What if We Turned The Sahara Desert Into a Giant Solar Farm?
Whenever I visit the Sahara I am struck by how sunny and hot it is and how clear the sky can be. Aside from a few oases there is little vegetation, and most of the world's largest desert is covered with rocks, sand and sand dunes.
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Anomaly in Atlantic Ocean Could Be First Detection of a Tectonic Plate Peeling Apart
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Anomaly in Atlantic Ocean Could Be First Detection of a Tectonic Plate Peeling Apart
Scientists have identified what they say could be the first evidence of a tectonic plate peeling into two separate layers under the ocean.
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First-Ever Record of 400 Years of El Ninos Shows They Really Are Getting More Brutal
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First-Ever Record of 400 Years of El Ninos Shows They Really Are Getting More Brutal
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Strangely Bright Galaxies From The Early Universe Could Finally Explain a Cosmic Mystery
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Strangely Bright Galaxies From The Early Universe Could Finally Explain a Cosmic Mystery
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The Universe didn't begin as we see it today, glittering with light. For the first 500 million or so years, it was a murky, neutral hydrogen-filled darkness. Then something started exciting the hydrogen with radiation, ionising it - and lo, there w
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Jeff Bezos Just Unveiled Blue Origin's Moon Lander, And It's Quite Something
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Jeff Bezos Just Unveiled Blue Origin's Moon Lander, And It's Quite Something
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Jeff Bezos Just Unveiled Blue Origin's Moon Lander, And It's Quite Something
Jeff Bezos' private space company Blue Origin revealed its long-awaited plans to go to the Moon at a mysterious press event today.
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Wasps Just Became The First Known Insects Who Can Reason Using Logic
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Wasps Just Became The First Known Insects Who Can Reason Using Logic
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Wasps Just Became The First Known Insects Who Can Reason Using Logic
Here's a question for you. If A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then is A greater than C?
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For The First Time, Scientists Film an Immune System Complex Eating Holes in Bacteria
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For The First Time, Scientists Film an Immune System Complex Eating Holes in Bacteria
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For The First Time, Scientists Film an Immune System Complex Eating Holes in Bacteria
Using a powerful microscope, scientists have captured for the first time one of the amazing defences our bodies deploy to protect us from invading organisms.