It makes sense that life on a wet planet like ours evolved to depend on water. But is water really that special? Could life on other planets get by without it? Living organisms are pretty extraordinary, but get any one of us under a microscope and we’re all pretty much the same: bags of water [...]
Lithium is cheap and widely available, so why do we care about a new resource in a war zone? Because it’s another counter to the irrational fear that the automobile’s lithium-powered electric future is doomed before it begins Lithium Evaporation Pond Part of SQM’s operations on the Salar de Atacama in northern Chile Seth Fletcher [...]
Accessing the Internet while away from the home or office has never been easier. When there’s no Wi-Fi available users can jump on 3G broadband to get their online fix. And that’s the way it has generally been, with the two main mobile communications technologies acting as complementary services. But with the advent of Wi-Fi [...]
Scientists have come up with fresh evidence supporting the theory that a vast ocean covered much of the Martian northern hemisphere 3.5 billion years ago. The work paints a picture of a possible Earth like planet, warm enough to have rivers, sea shore beaches and an ocean covering a third of the surface. On Earth, [...]
For the first time, astronomers have been able to follow the path of an exoplanet as it orbits its star, a breakthrough for planet-hunters and anyone interested in how planets are made. Exoplanet In Orbit This composite image shows a huge planet orbiting a nearby star, Beta Pictoris. The pale dots inside the dark disc [...]
A study comparing how carnivorous dinosaurs tore through their meat has found meat eaters munched using at least four distinct biting methods. The findings, by UK palaeontologist Dr Manabu Sakamoto from the University of Bristol, appear today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Sakamoto compared 41 species of theropods – a group of [...]
Scientists have taken a promising step toward the goal of generating a new source of clean energy, using little more than sunlight and water. Dr Zhiguo Yi from the Australian National University (ANU) and collaborators in Australia, China and Japan have proven that a simple chemical based on silver, called silver orthophosphate, can produce gaseous [...]
Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking. Islands in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and sediment. The findings, published in the journal Global and Planetary Change, were gathered by comparing [...]
Scientists think they may have solved one of the great mysteries of the Solar System: why the winds on Venus blow faster than the planet’s rotation? Venus rotates once every 243 Earth days, but it takes just 4 Earth days for clouds in the Venusian atmosphere to go all the way round the planet at [...]
The miniaturization of electronic components has seen mobile devices shrink to the point where screen size is a major limiting factor. That could be set to change with Sony announcing it has developed a super-flexible full color OLED display which can be repeatedly wrapped around a thin cylinder while still producing moving images. Could we [...]
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