Or more accurately the milky way is twice as thick as we previously supposed, 12,000 light years thick, rather than 6,000 light years. A light year is the distance it takes like to travel in a year. By comparison light can travel around the earth 7 times in one second. The galaxy is 100,000 light [...]
Ludwik Leibler and his colleagues at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI/CNRS) in Paris have created a new kind of rubber which has self healing properties. It consists of “fatty acids” — short chains of carbon atoms — linked together via hydrogen bonds which form a network. The material behaves just [...]
An experimental helmet is currently being tested by scientists as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. It delivers low levels of infra-red light which may stimulate the growth of brain cells. Researchers at the University of Sunderland, first developed the infra-red therapy to treat cold sores, but as the looked deeper into how it worked [...]
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The secrets of bird flight have been revealed. Scientists at the Flight Laboratory at the University of Montana have been busy studying the angle at which birds flap their wings. A study published in the journal Nature now suggests that it is the angle at which a bird [...]
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