There has been considerable debate over how the Moon was formed. The popular hypothesis contends that the Moon was formed by a Mars-sized body colliding with Earth’s upper crust which …read more Source:: Science
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Hubble uncovers a ‘heavy metal’ exoplanet shaped like a football
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•How can a planet be ‘hotter than hot?’ The answer is when heavy metals are detected escaping from the planet’s atmosphere, instead of condensing into clouds. …read more Source:: Science
Mass anomaly detected under the moon’s largest crater
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•A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system — the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin — and may contain metal from the …read more Source:: Science
How electricity-eating microbes use electrons to fix carbon dioxide
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•A phototrophic microbe called Rhodopseudomonas palustris takes up electrons from conductive substances like metal oxides or rust to reduce carbon dioxide. …read more Source:: Science
Fluid-inspired material self-heals before your eyes
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•Engineers have developed a new coating strategy for metal that self-heals within seconds when scratched, scraped or cracked. The novel material could prevent these tiny defects from turning into localized …read more Source:: Science
A new Bose-Einstein condensate
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•Researchers have created a Bose-Einstein condensate of light coupled with metal electrons, so-called surface plasmon polaritons. …read more Source:: Science
CoreOS opens its Kubernetes power to Azure and OpenStack
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•By Serdar Yegulalp CoreOS’s Tectonic is setting course for new clouds. Previously available on Amazon’s cloud and on bare metal, CoreOS is now being offered for other environments, including Microsoft Azure and …read more Source:: OpenSource
Faulty metal brace likely doomed SpaceX Falcon rocket, Musk says
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•CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) – A faulty metal brace in an unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket likely triggered the explosion that destroyed the booster minutes after liftoff from Florida last …read more Source:: UKScienceNews