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U2 en NASA maken een videoclip (video)

Space.cweb.nl - 57 min 37 sec geleden

[ Houston ] - Ruimtevaart organisatie NASA en U2 hebben samen een videoclip gemaakt als resultaat van een jaar samenwerking met de Amerikaanse ruimtevaart organisatie en rockband. Tijdens de 360-tour van de Ierse rockband is deze video aan het grote publiek getoond.

Categorieën: Ruimtevaart

Turing formula poses plain origin for intricate skins

NewScientist/Fysica - 1 uur 20 min geleden

A mathematical-biological mixing dreamed up by code breaker Alan Turing can predict what happens when species with simple skin patterns interbreed

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde

Laws of physics may change across the universe

NewScientist/Fysica - wo, 08/09/2010 - 18:29

A controversial observation suggests that a constant of physics actually varies in space – it could explain why our corner of the cosmos is just right for life

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde

Exotic matter could show up in the LHC this year

NewScientist/Fysica - wo, 08/09/2010 - 18:00

The Large Hadron Collider could glimpse sparticles, diquarks and leptoquarks sooner than thought possible if new-found decay pathways are correct

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde

The eight failures that caused the Gulf oil spill

NewScientist/Ecologie - wo, 08/09/2010 - 16:09

A long-awaited BP report lists eight reasons for the accident that caused its catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Categorieën: Ecologie

Meet William the Concherer, the dolphin that can fish

NewScientist/Ecologie - wo, 08/09/2010 - 15:35

A "conching" dolphin captured on film suggests the marine mammal uses the massive shell to trap and stun fish

Categorieën: Ecologie

Bees and climate change cleared in pollination mystery

NewScientist/Ecologie - wo, 08/09/2010 - 10:29

Even without climate change, even without the decline of bees, pollination is in a downward spiral. And nobody knows why

Categorieën: Ecologie

Bird flu jumps to pigs

NewScientist/Ecologie - di, 07/09/2010 - 15:38

H5N1's jump to pigs brings the virus a step closer to a human pandemic

Categorieën: Ecologie

Why wartime wrecks are slicking time bombs

NewScientist/Ecologie - di, 07/09/2010 - 10:32

Millions of tons of oil lost in sunken ships is threatening a new environmental disaster

Categorieën: Ecologie

Forest carbon stores may be massively overestimated

NewScientist/Ecologie - ma, 06/09/2010 - 20:00

We may have to dramatically revise our estimates of how much carbon rainforests contain – apparently similar forests hold vastly different amounts

Categorieën: Ecologie

Mobile chargers could keep electric cars juiced up

NewScientist/Ecologie - zo, 05/09/2010 - 10:00

Mobile charging units that respond to in-car sensors could ensure that electric car owners never need fear getting stranded

Categorieën: Ecologie

Eternal black holes are the ultimate cosmic safes

NewScientist/Fysica - vr, 03/09/2010 - 18:59

Normally, black holes evaporate over time, a process that probably releases information about their contents – but there may be a way to create black holes that stand the test of time

Categorieën: Fysica en Wiskunde