via BBC News – Solar Impulse plane begins epic global flight.
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an experiment able to capture both natures of light at the same time
via The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave.
Plans to generate electricity from the world’s first series of tidal lagoons have been unveiled in the UK.
The six lagoons – four in Wales and one each in Somerset and Cumbria – will capture incoming and outgoing tides behind giant sea walls, and use the weight of the water to power turbines.
A £1bn Swansea scheme, said to be able to produce energy for 155,000 homes, is already in the planning system.
Energy Secretary Ed Davey says he wants to back the project.
The cost of generating power from the Swansea project will be very high, but the firm behind the plan says subsequent lagoons will be able to produce electricity much more cheaply.
It says the series of six lagoons could generate 8% of the UK’s electricity for an investment of £30bn.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31682529
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlZRnpyZjBE
Great video. Myth busted.
Evidence shows an asteroid this size and subsequent devastation has hit the Earth at least 6 times in the past.
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/construction-hyperloop-track-starts/
http://www.sciencealert.com/world-s-first-grid-connected-wave-power-station-switched-on-in-australia
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A supermassive black hole at the centre of the PDS 456 galaxy has been caught belching up gusts of gas so strong, they could halt star formation and stunt the growth of the entire galaxy.
The discovery was made by an international team of astronomers that used the European Space Agency’s (ESA) XMM-Newton telescope, and NASA’s NuSTAR telescope, to watch the activity of this colossal cosmic object that lies two billion light-years away from Earth, and boasts a mass of no less than a billion Suns. For comparison, the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has ‘just’ 4.3 million times the mass of the Sun.
http://www.sciencealert.com/giant-black-hole-burp-could-transform-an-entire-galaxy