Kickstarter startup SCiO has developed a tiny spectrometer that reveals the molecular make-up of materials, both organic and not that is sure to be a standard in all CSI kits in the future. (Video)
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Mona Lisa
Apparently, everyone has long been baffled by how Leonardo da Vinci created such subtle shadows and light on the Mona Lisa. So much so that scientists X-rayed the painting to discover his technique.
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Space artist Ron Miller’s concept of hypothetical geysers and sundogs on Pluto.
Zipping through space at nearly a million miles per day, NASA’s New Horizons probe is halfway to Pluto and just woke up for the first time in months to look around.
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National Astronomical Observatories from Chinese Academy of Sciences has completed their long awaited project “The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope or LAMOST”.
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A new method for diagnosing heart attacks very early on could improve a patient’s chances of survival and reduce the amount of permanent damage that he or she suffers. Normally, it takes up to six hours to diagnose a heart attack with certainty. The new approach can do so in just 10 minutes by analyzing tiny biochemical markers in the blood, such as lipids, sugars, and amino acids–a technique known as metabolic profiling.
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The European spacecraft Mars Express is to make a daring flyby of the Martian moon Phobos in the hope of gaining insights into its enigmatic surface, temperature and geological past, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday.
On 23 July, the unmanned craft will swoop to within just 97 kilometres of Phobos, using a battery of instruments, including a high-resolution stereo camera, infra-red scanner and atmospheric spectrometer.
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