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Topic: What's Going on in Science? (Read 12554 times)

Reading comprehension

Reply #50 –
SELECT SYSDATE FROM DUAL;

My mother wouldn't tell its meaning. Pity her. :awww:

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Reply #52 –
It's nice to see the math, but the word misleading sure is some oddly clickbait writing. I'd have been very surprised indeed if they'd said it was likely within merely a few billion years.

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Reply #53 –
Japanese researchers have launched the first wooden satellite.
Quote from: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/worlds-first-wooden-satellite-developed-japan-heads-space-2024-11-05/
Decommissioned satellites must re-enter the atmosphere to avoid becoming space debris. Conventional metal satellites create aluminium oxide particles during re-entry, but wooden ones would just burn up with less pollution, Doi said.
"Metal satellites might be banned in the future," Doi said. "If we can prove our first wooden satellite works, we want to pitch it to Elon Musk's SpaceX."

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Reply #54 –
Antimatter could travel by truck, a test with protons shows
Quote from: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/antimatter-protons-travel-truck
...antiprotons are a precious resource — CERN, near Geneva, is the only place where the particles can be trapped and studied. Scientists would like the option to take them elsewhere...

Quote from: https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/base-experiment-takes-big-step-towards-portable-antimatter
Yesterday [from 25 October, 2024], the team of scientists and engineers took an important step towards this goal by transporting a cloud of 70 protons in a truck across CERN’s main site. “If you can do it with protons, it will also work with antiprotons,” said Christian Smorra, the leader of BASE-STEP. “The only difference is that you need a much better vacuum chamber for the antiprotons.”