It is an exciting time to be alive. In the last 20 years the discovery of exoplanets – planets around other stars and therefore outside our solar system – has exploded.
Isn’t battery technology a frustrating pain in the ass? What if we could get more electricity out of batteries than was used to charge it? That’s what the thermogalvanic effect allows us to do.
Our solar system’s journey around and around the Milky Way may be more fraught with danger than we thought. Some Harvard scientists are now saying that dark matter in our galaxy may periodically hurtle comets towards the inner solar system as we periodically pass through a thin disk of the invisible stuff.
Scientists have come up with nifty way to determine the temperature of super-tiny objects using brownian motion.