A Week in Space and Science 17 August – 23 August 2020
06/09/2020Many people liked last week’s summary so here is the next one. I know I’m a bit late but Exames take up a lot of my time. Summary of a week in space and science Here is a quick summary of the six topics I am featuring this week. First-ever observation of “time crystals” interacting. Breakthrough in quantum information processing. A pumice raft containing millions of small volcanic rocks has reached Australias Coral reefs. Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows. Widespread electric vehicle adoption would save billions of dollars, thousands of lives. Record melt: Greenland…
A Week in Space and Science 10 August – 16 August 2020
While doing research for Beyond I’m reading a lot of stuff. Quite often I come across Storys that are really Interesting. Sadly I just don’t have the time to write posts about all these stories. Recently I saw something that…
Ten times more microplastics in the oceans than previously thought!
You have probably already heard about the microplastics problem of the ocean but do you know how bad it is? The world’s plastic pollution problem is much worse than imagined, according to a new analysis published on 18 August in…
Operation Plumbbob: How a manhole cover became the fastest object launched by Humans
The Story you are about to read is unbelievable but true. It involves Spacetravel, 1,200 Pigs, 18,000 US soldiers, Mythbusters and lots and lots of Nuclear Detonations. The Background The time is 1957 and after World War II Atomic Bomb…
Our misconception on the size of the world.
Most of you will have come across a 2D map of the world that correctly displays all countries fitting perfectly to each other. But did you ever realize that this map is not showing you the true size of these…
