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Meet the world’s rarest mineral. It was found only once - ZME …
Nov 28, 2024 · The only specimen of kyawthuite. Credit: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Deep in the Myanmar Mogok region, a tiny reddish-orange crystal sat unnoticed.
Real-life invisibility cloaks are already here. But how do they work?
Jul 4, 2023 · The future of invisibility cloaks. In the military domain, cloaking technology could revolutionize stealth operations, rendering military assets invisible to radar or surveillance systems.
The color purple is unlike all others, in a physical sense - ZME …
Apr 21, 2021 · The chart on the left is a very rough and imperfect approximation for how the cone cells on our retinas respond to different parts of the visible spectrum. There’s three lines because there are ...
Astrology doesn’t work and never worked. Here’s why - ZME Science
Mar 14, 2023 · Constellations and the Zodiac. A constellation is a group of stars that forms an imaginary outline that seems to look like something. Most constellations represent an animal, an object, or a ...
Why is pork bad for you -- a look at what the science says
Jul 17, 2020 · It should be noted that this is an increase in relative risk.Let’s take an example. Let’s say the cancer risk is 10%, and pork consumption causes a 17% increase in the total cancer risk.
Faraway Galaxy Crashing at 2 Million Miles Per Hour Creates Epic …
Nov 22, 2024 · A galaxy traveling at a blistering two million miles per hour (3.2 million km/h) has torn through five neighboring galaxies, creating one of the most powerful intergalactic shock waves ever observed.
Hoverboards are now real — and the science behind them is dope
Nov 12, 2021 · In 2014, an inventor and entrepreneur Greg Henderson listed a hoverboard prototype Hendo hoverboards on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.
The hexagon shape and why it shows up so much in nature - ZME …
Sep 18, 2021 · Columns of basalts from an old volcanic eruption. A snowflake. Beehives. Corals, crystals, and a lot of other structures, both biological and non-biological, feature hexagons.
5 Ways Louis Pasteur Changed the World - ZME Science
May 11, 2015 · Louis Pasteur. Image via Wikipedia. Widely considered one of the most brilliant scientists in history, Louis Pasteur revolutionized the world as we know it.