The man who made the world renown of Einstein

[ad_1] Copyright of the image Science Photo Library Legend Einstein (left) and Eddington (right) only met for the first time years after the end of Word War One It is hard to imagine a time when the name of Albert Einstein was not recognized worldwide. But even after completing his theory of relativity in 1915, … Read more

Scientists create a new standard genome for a highly studied worm

[ad_1] <div data-thumb = "https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/tmb/2019/8-scientistscr.jpg" data-src = "https: //3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn. net / newman / gfx / news / hires / 2019/8-scientistscr.jpg "data-sub-html =" The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Three stages in the life of C. elegans are shown: an adult hermaphrodite, a smaller larva and eleven new eggs laid (with embryos developing inside). These are all … Read more

Stronger than aluminum, a heavily weathered wood cools passively

[ad_1] Enlarge / Look at the compressed wood without lignin. University of Maryland Most of our construction practices are not particularly durable. The production of concrete is a major source of carbon emissions and the production of steel requires a lot of resources. Once completed, heating and cooling of buildings become a major energy sink. … Read more

Interactive quantum chemistry in virtual reality

[ad_1] Virtual reality allows human experts to teach quantum chemistry to neural networks. Credit: Laboratory of Intangible Realities (University of Bristol) Scientists from the Immaterial Reality Laboratory of the University of Bristol (IRL) and ETH Zurich have used virtual reality and artificial intelligence algorithms to know the details of the chemical change. In a cover … Read more

See the red in the fossil record

[ad_1] What color was T. Rex? What about triceratops or glyptodon? Until recently, the palette of prehistory was the sole source of daydreams, artists of CGI or kids with pencils. Advances in imaging technology bring us closer to real answers. Over the past decade, we have learned that Sinosauropteryx's tail was striped and that Microraptor's … Read more

Comet provides new clues about the origins of the Earth's oceans

[ad_1] The mystery of why the Earth has so much water, allowing our "blue marble "to support an incredible number of lives, is clearer with the new research on comets. Comets are like snowballs of rock, dust, ice and more frozen chemicals that vaporize as they get closer to the Sun, producing the tails seen … Read more

Scientists set new temperature record for superconductivity

[ad_1] Damn hot An international team of scientists has built a superconductor that operates at 250 Kelvin, or -23 degrees Celsius – or just 9 degrees Fahrenheit. That's a few degrees lower than the coldest winter day in Florida's history, but it's nearly 50 degrees Celsius (84.6 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the previous record of … Read more