Monthly Archive: August 2020
Hyperion’s hydrogen-powered supercar – By Peter Valdés-Dapeña, CNN Business Updated 2020 Aug 12 – Hyperion, a California-based company, has unveiled a hydrogen-powered supercar the company hopes will change the way people view hydrogen fuel cell technology. The Hyperion XP-1 will be able to …
Contributed by Elizabeth Rayne, @quothravenrayne 2020 Aug 16 – Jurassic seas were swimming with strange life forms. Crinoids could have passed for extras in Little Shop of Horrors if it had an aquarium, and eerier still, these creatures without a brain somehow figured out how …
Social media makes dating-related harassment and stalking that much easier. smartboy10/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images – By Emily Rothman, Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University 2020 Aug 13 – CC BY-ND – Falling in love for the first time can be a …
The Pentagon is forming a new task force to investigate UFOs – By Ryan Browne Updated 10:31 PM ET, Thu 2020 Aug 13 – Washington (CNN) The Pentagon is forming a new task force to investigate UFOs that have been observed by US …
Vintage woman – Shutterstock – By Debra Kelly/Updated: 2020 Jul 14 – History is filled with episodes that prove mankind is just sort of making everything up as it goes. There’s no shortage of things that can kill us or do horrible, terrible …
Bei Bei the giant panda – Bei Bei and me: At nine years old, Rebecca Hale fell in love with pandas on a trip to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Three decades later, as a mom and a photographer for Nat Geo …
ThermBot displays readings in Fahrenheit and Celsius – 2020 Aug 12 – It’s never been more important to be able to quickly and accurately take your temperature, and the ThermBot provides that capability in a device that is smaller and smarter than other …
Bricks could do double duty as building materials and supercapacitors. Big_Ryan/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images – By Julio M. D’Arcy, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Washington University in St Louis 2020 Aug 11 – The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic …
A clever new study definitively measures how long it takes for quantum particles to pass through a barrier. Image source: Carlos Castilla/Shutterstock – By Robby Berman 2020 Aug 11 – Quantum particles can tunnel through seemingly impassable barriers, popping up on the other …
Native American protesters demonstrate in Keystone, South Dakota, ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Mount Rushmore memorial, Friday, July 3, 2020. Protesters advocated for the Black Hills to be returned to the Lakota people. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves) – By Simran Jeet …