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All 2,242 of James Sowerby’s illustrations from his compendium of knowledge about mineralogy in Great Britain and beyond published between 1802 and 1817 and arranged by color.

Nasa is a major player in space science, so when a team from the agency this week presents evidence that "impossible" microwave thrusters seem to work, something strange is definitely going on

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Vo vedeckom tíme špičkových odborníkov vo švajčiarskom výskumnom centre CERN pracuje i niekoľko Slovákov. Medzi nimi aj IVAN MELO z Katedry fyziky Elektrotechnickej fakulty Žilinskej univerzity.  dsc_0030.jpg Bežný človek vie, že v CERNe je veľký urýchľovač častíc, al...

"When you have a well-lit ​room, the camera will run forever." By Jason Koebler | Apr 15 2015, 1:00pm

In this Chandra image of ngc6388, researchers have found evidence that a white dwarf star may have ripped apart a planet as it came too close. When a star reaches its white dwarf stage, nearly all of the material from the star is packed inside a radius one hundredth that of the original star.

Nepotrebujete mať doma Hubblov teleskop, aby ste videli niektoré vesmírne telesá z absolútnej blízkosti. Pozrite sa na tohto poľského samouka! Amatérsky fotograf Bartosz Wojczyński namieril svoj foťák na nočnú oblohu a z 32 tisíc záberov na náš Mesiac vytvoril takúto neuveriteľne detailnú fotografiu.

Suppose we do the following: Let A = MOVE LEFT 1 UNIT; Let C = MOVE DOWN 1 UNIT; Let G = MOVE RIGHT 1 UNIT; Let T = MOVE UP 1 UNIT; Then we can map any genome into a random walk, a kind of Etch A S…

By Scott Kelly, NASA Astronaut

NASA offers some unprecedented cosmic perspective

Although Mimas and Pandora, shown here, both orbit Saturn, they are very different moons.

Nobody gives a flying fuck as to whether bacon causes cancer or not.

It's a bird! Then a boat!

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Research shows that video-game play improves basic mental abilities.

An escape from a shopping bag triggers an idea

by Greg Egan