Ομάδα ερευνητών της NASA θέλει να φέρει την επανάσταση στον χώρο των αερομεταφορών, καθώς δημιούργησε τα πρώτα ευλύγιστα φτερά αεροπλάνων που μπορούν να προσαρμοστούν εν πτήσει, ανάλογα με τις απαιτήσεις. Η Mission Adaptive Digital Composite Aerostructure Technologies (MADCAT), της Αμερικάνικης Διαστημικής Υπηρεσίας, χρησιμοποίησε ίνες άνθρακα για να σχεδιάσει και να δοκιμάσει τα πολύ ελαφριά και ευπροσάρμοστά φτερά. Έχουν πλάτος τεσσάρων μέτρων και είναι κατασκευασμένα …

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A new type of mineral that is harder than diamond has been discovered in a meteorite, Russian scientists claim. A meteorite discovered in Russia in 2016 has been analyzed and found to contain a mysterious new mineral that is as hard as diamonds. Did some alien lose the engagement ring he planned to give his …

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There are ghostly shapes hidden in magnetic fields. They’re not made of stuff in the way a lightning bolt or a beam of light is. A lighting bolt carries a fairly defined group of electrons from the sky all the way to the ground. Sunshine that hits your face consists mostly of the same photons …

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Deep in the Gulf of California, scientists have discovered a fantastical expanse of hydrothermal vents, full of crystallized gases, glimmering pools of piping-hot fluids and rainbow-hued life-forms. Punctuating it all are towering structures made of minerals from the vents, looming as tall as 75 feet (23 meters). A decade ago, scientists visiting this spot saw …

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