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The Dream Chaser spacecraft had a successful free-flight test today

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New Material Could Harvest Electricity From The Human Body

They’ve created a thin, flexible, rubbery material that generates electricity when stretched and compressed, giving it applications ranging from pacemakers to clothing.

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-organic-material-generates-electricity-when-stressed-empa-piezoelectric

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Spins of unpaired electrons are the root of permanent magnetism

The spins of unpaired electrons are the root of permanent magnetism, and after 10 years of design and re-design, Berry’s lab has made a molecule that gains magnetic  through an unusual way of controlling those spins.  Levitation here we come. 🙂

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-11-molecular-magnetism-power-messenger-electron.html#jCp

via Molecular magnetism packs power with ‘messenger electron’.

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Dinosaur ‘Mummy’ Unveiled With Skin And Guts Intact

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/nodosaur-fossil

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Saildrone in San Francisco

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BFR RUD

Did Space’s new rocket for the BFR just have a rapid unscheduled disassembly.  Nope.  It was the Merlin engine.  Thanks to WH for (I think) coining the phrase RUD.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/an-experimental-spacex-rocket-engine-has-exploded-in-texas/

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Hawkins: Before the Big Bang: The No Boundary Proposal

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IAWN (pronounced ‘eyewahn’)

http://iawn.net/frequently-asked-questions/

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Did mammals switch from night to day dwellers after the dinosaur extinction

“We were very surprised to find such close correlation between the disappearance of dinosaurs and the beginning of daytime activity in mammals, but we found the same result unanimously using several alternative analysis,”

via Nocturnal Mammals Became Day Dwellers After Dinosaur Extinction | Inverse.

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New species of Orangutan discovered

The Batang Toru population is an independent lineage and there has been no genetic exchange between them and other orang-utans for at least 10-20,000 years.

via ‘Scientific Serendipity’ Spurs Discovery of New Orangutan Species | Inverse.