You probably didn't notice, but a few days ago, the world took a huge step towards the goal of achieving clean, limitless energy through nuclear fusion. Physicists in Germany announced that they've just fired up one of the world's largest nuclear fusion machines for the first time – and it was successfully able to contain super-hot blobs of helium gas, otherwise known as plasma. (more…)
The closest potentially habitable planet ever found has been spotted by Australian scientists, and it's just 14 light-years away. That’s 126 trillion kilometres from Earth, which sounds impossibly far, but when you consider that our closest planetary neighbour, Mars, is 249 million km away, that handful of light-years doesn’t seem so bad in the scheme of things. Named Wolf 1061c, the newly discovered planet is located in the constellation Ophiucus, and its star is the 35th closest star from Earth - that we know about. The team behind the discovery says it's
Apparently, Italians find physics more sexy than S&M – at least for reading material. Since it was published last September, Carlo Rovelli's book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics has sold more copies in Rovelli's native country, Italy, than E.L. James' smash hit Fifty Shades of Grey, The Spectator reported. And the translated English copy has quickly risen to become Penguin's fastest-selling science debut in the publishing company's history. So what's Rovelli's secret? After all, it's not like physics is a topic that people flock toward. In fact, physics has bee
Two of Emir of Kano's sons were pictured enjoying one of the royal pastimes: horseback riding. The handsome duo sported immaculate Kaftan and colourful traditional knitted caps....another pic after below... (more…)
The Facebook CEO shared a photo of his daughter Max on Thursday, in Star Wars costume and toys. She was wrapped up with a lightsaber, BB-8 toy, Chewbacca and Darth Vader toys beside her. "The force is strong with this one" Mark captioned the adorable photo. LOL the eyes tell a different tale...
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