Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) scientists just maintained ‘high performance’ plasma in a stable state for 70 seconds this week– the longest ever recorded for this type of reaction.
via Another nuclear fusion record just got broken in South Korea – ScienceAlert.
Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the same time. Now, scientists at EPFL have succeeded in capturing the first-ever snapshot of this dual behavior.
via The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave.
http://themindunleashed.com/2016/12/solar-roads-tested-100-sites-2017.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kdpg4XcqrU
The tail of a 99-million-year-old dinosaur has been found entombed in amber, an unprecedented discovery that has blown away scientists.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/dinosaur-tail-trapped-in-amber-trnd/index.html
Four new elements—with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118—earned their spots on the periodic table: Tennessine, Nihonium, Moscovium and Oganesson. The four elements, synthetically created in labs, round out the seventh row of the table.
A mysterious syndrome has been impairing astronauts’ vision on the International Space Station, causing untreatable nearsightedness that lingers for months even after they’ve returned to Earth.
The problem is so bad that two-thirds of astronauts report having deteriorated eyesight after spending time in orbit. Now scientists say they finally have some answers – and it’s not looking good for our prospects of getting to Mars.
