SNC is proud to announce the Dream Chaser® spacecraft had a successful free-flight test today @EdwardsAFB, with support of @NASAArmstrong. The Dream Chaser had a beautiful flight and landing! pic.twitter.com/lAn0n7FPsg
— Sierra Nevada Corporation (@SierraNevCorp) November 12, 2017
Month: November 2017
They’ve created a thin, flexible, rubbery material that generates electricity when stretched and compressed, giving it applications ranging from pacemakers to clothing.
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 strength 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’.
Saildrone in San Francisco
BFR RUD
IAWN (pronounced ‘eyewahn’)
“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.
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.