One six-second pass by a helicopter now tells which radioactive materials lie on the ground, …
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New series Spanish Geniuses: Isabel Zendal and the first international vaccine
by JWCarlin147 viewsNow on Spanish Geniuses: in 1803 the smallpox vaccine crossed the ocean alive, in the …
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Now on Spanish Geniuses: Juan de la Cierva’s autogiro, a machine designed not to stall …
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New series Spanish Geniuses: Emilio Herrera, pioneer of the astronaut’s suit
by JWCarlin151 viewsIn 1935, 34 years before the Moon landing, Emilio Herrera designed a pressure suit to …
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Ohio State researchers arranged tiny crystal defects into dense networks and made two heat-resistant alloys …
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Japanese researchers mixed plastic-eating enzymes into compostable plastics. At 757 m deep, the films were …
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New series Spanish Geniuses: Torres Quevedo, the forgotten genius
by JWCarlin127 viewsRadio remote control, the first passenger cable car, a chess machine and the computer’s first …
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A tiny silicon nitride ring fills the gap between two lasers with a ruler of …
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Cold-resistant alloys: two niobium-titanium metals stay tough at -253°C, the temperature of liquid hydrogen, where …
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NTT moves data with light, not wires, inside AI data centres
by JWCarlin192 viewsJapan’s NTT wants to replace electrical wiring with light pulses inside computers. Its first light-based …
