Scientists Use Whale Songs To Reveal Hidden Features Of The Sea Floor
We know very little about the ocean floor, but now scientists are getting help to learn something about the most unexpected aspect – the fin…
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Dying Stars Caught Snacking On The Vaporized Crusts Of Earth-Like Planets They Destroyed
Astronomers have identified the vapor remnants of Earth-like planetary crusts in the atmosphere of four nearby white dwarfs, the final stage of evolution for stars…
Peculiar Congregation Of Black Holes Found Lurking At The Center Of A Stellar Cluster
Black holes come in three shapes: the size of a star, something that can be formed by a supernova to go to a star; Billions…
Bitcoin Mining Now Uses More Electricity Than Argentina
Mining for bitcoin is now consuming more electricity than the whole of Argentina, suggests an energy tracker operated by the University of Cambridge. Bitcoin is a digital…
A Curious Galaxy That Is Very Young But Looks Very Old Is Puzzling Astronomers
Astronomers have discovered a galaxy that challenges our theory of how galaxies formed and evolved. The light from BLSS 073.1 comes to us just 1.2…
After Years Of Rising, Emissions Of An Ozone-Depleting Chemical Have Finally Started To Fall
The world is facing enough potential sources of going public, so it is comforting to know that a threat is back in its box for…
Liquid Metal Embrittlement
Liquid metal embrittlement (LME) is a phenomenon where metals that are usually ductile become prone to brittle intergranular failure after exposure to certain liquid metals.…
Chemical Milling – a subtractive machining process
Chemical milling is the subtractive machining process using baths of temperature-regulated etching chemicals to remove material for producing the required shape. It is also known…
Kuril Islands, North-western Pacific Ocean
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (/ˈkʊərɪl, ˈkjʊərɪl, kjʊˈriːl/; Russian: Кури́льские острова́, tr. Kurilskiye ostrova, IPA: kʊˈrʲilʲskʲɪjə ɐstrɐˈva or Russian: островá Тисима, tr. ostrova Tisima),…
Nambulite: Properties and Occurrences
Nambulite is a triclinic-pinacoidal reddish orange-brown mineral containing hydrogen, lithium, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium. It is a lithium-bearing manganese silicate mineral with the formula:…
Electroetching – a metal etching process
Electroetching is a simple metal etching process. It is a metal etching process that involves the use of a solution of an electrolyte, an anode,…
Cadmium plating – a type of coating process
Cadmium plating is under scrutiny because of the environmental toxicity of the cadmium metal. It is a type of coating process that offers technical benefits…
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