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Month: August 2022

NASA’s Webb Telescope Just Detected Carbon Dioxide On A Distant Planet

Posted on August 29, 2022 by Agitator!!

A sign of a potential life environment? Thanks to the Webb Telescope’s precision, scientists discovered the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide on WASP-39 b by using the JWST’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph to view the change in wavelengths of light from the planet as it orbited its host star. The subtle measurements of the planet’s transmission…

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Supercharging tweak could fill electric car batteries 90% in 10 mins

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Agitator!!

More power faster! Tweaking the way electric vehicle batteries are charged could make it possible to hit 90 per cent charge within just 10 minutes from empty. By comparison, current methods usually require half an hour to fully charge an electric vehicle. For more, check out this New Scientist/MSN story.

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China Shooting Rods Into Sky to Bring Rain After Massive Drought

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Agitator!!

China’s worst-ever drought in history caused the country to begin cloud seeding, using silver iodide rods to encourage rainfall. China’s record-breaking heat wave has gotten so bad that parts of the Yanghtze River have gone completely dry. To combat the country’s hottest temperatures on record, officials are now using a technique called “cloud seeding” to…

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Nuclear fusion breakthrough as ‘ignition’ finally achieved

Posted on August 18, 2022 by Agitator!!

A little bit more on the latest breakthrough in nuclear fusion. The experiment in fusion power, conducted by the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, is explored in detail in three new papers — one published in Physical Review Letters and two papers published in Physical Review E — that argue…

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Dark Plasma Eruption From Sun Headed Towards Earth

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Agitator!!

Put your tin foil hats on and hide in your underground bunkers 😉 A cloud of “dark plasma” erupted from the sun on Sunday and is predicted to make contact with Earth on Wednesday, giving rise to the possibility of a minor geomagnetic storm. For more, check out this Newsweek/MSN story.

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Fate of world’s biggest ice sheet is in human hands

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Agitator!!

Scientists say it’s up to us…could it be that simple? Humans could prevent the demise of the world’s largest ice sheet by keeping global warming below a threshold set in the 2015 Paris climate accords, scientists declared on Wednesday. For more, check out this The Hill story.

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Earth Is Spinning so Fast, We Might Have to Turn Back the Clock…

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Agitator!!

…and the tech industry isn’t happy. if the trend continues — which it very well might — mankind will likely have to make some changes to atomic time, or the universal way that time on Earth is measured, according to experts. But that’s not exactly easy, especially when the tech industry really doesn’t want that…

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Scientists Invent Paper Battery That Works With Just a Drop of Water

Posted on August 1, 2022 by Agitator!!

Just add water! Because it is made of paper and contains zinc, both of which are biodegradable, scientists say it could help reduce the environmental impact of these types of batteries. For more, check out this Newsweek/MSN story.

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