???? Yes if you peel scotch tape in a vacuum it emits x-rays that are powerful enough to actually use with x-ray film. A couple of scientists in California discovered this and even took an x-ray of their finger to prove it. They say that it’s safe to use tape in your office because the radiation doesn’t happen in the presence of air, but if you need to fix a vacuum chamber with scotch tape you need to be careful.
They’ve turned on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and the universe as we know it didn’t collapse. For awhile it was thought that this massive machine would cause a cataclysmic black hole that would suck in the entire universe, they were wrong. Hooray!!
Source: BBC News
Tags: black hole, collider, lhc, science
The encyclopedia of Life that I wrote about some time ago, has just brought it’s first 30,000 pages online. The goal of the project which is slated to last 10 years is to catalog the entire earths known living species, all 1.8 million. Though 30,000 pages are now up only a handful a fully complete and approved by scientists, the rest serving as placeholders that haven’t been authenticated by scientists yet. You can see the list of exemplar pages as they call them, that are fully approved, here. Later on this year the site will be opened to the public for contributing different materials to be incorporated into the project.
Tags: earth, encyclopedia of life, science, species
Many may be aware of the Folding@home project run by Stanford University, but thanks to Sony now they have a Guinness record. This record certifies the Folding@home project as the most powerful distributed computing system, reaching over 1 petaflop (thousand trillion floating point operations per second). In comparison the SETI@home project has only reached 256 teraflops (265 million floating point operations).
What does Sony have to do with the record. Well more than 600,000 PS3 owners have been donating their spare cpu cycles to the project and this along with others donating their PCs spare cycles have netted the project the World Record.
Source: News.com
Tags: folding@home, record, science, Sony
The newest version of Google Earth now has the ability to navigate through space. Now everyone who is an astronaut at heart can now go where no man has gone before (couldn’t resist) from the comfort of their PC. Here’s a few short demos of the new feature.
A screen shot from the new google Sky.
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