Weird & Interesting science, take 2

[Bob Schroeck]

Breaking Superconductor News - Dr. Derek Lowe gives us a somewhat less technical description of the news from yesterday.

Cheap materials, not hard for labs everywhere to make samples, and a critical temperature of 121°C. Yes please! We’re all on pins and needles waiting for replication.

Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing

Or maybe not...

Nope, probably not.

[classicdrogn]

Yeah, when even Popular Mechanics debunks it, it's probably pretty solid. Ah well.

[Bob Schroeck]

Breaking Superconductor News - Dr. Derek Lowe gives us a somewhat less technical description of the news from yesterday.

Cheap materials, not hard for labs everywhere to make samples, and a critical temperature of 121°C. Yes please! We’re all on pins and needles waiting for replication.

Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing

Or maybe not...

Nope, probably not.

And an article on how it was determined that LK-99 isn't a superconductor, but just ferromagnetic.

[hazard]

Ferromagnetic without involving any of the ferromagnetic metals, too, if I understand things correctly.

[Bob Schroeck]

Yes, which is in itself pretty interesting, but not as interesting as a room temperature superconductor would have been.

[robkelk]

India becomes fourth nation to successfully land a probe on the Moon

And the first to complete a polar landing.

[Mamorien]

India becomes fourth nation to successfully land a probe on the Moon

"O my love, you're the Moon and I'm Chakor
Blessed bird that's longing for
Your embrace forevermore..."

[Norgarth]

Anton Petrov - Uh Oh, Methane Evidence Suggests We Entered Ice Age Termination Event

[Dartz]

Life detected?

Methane. Carbon Dioxide. Both indicative of a water ocean.
Sitting in the habitable zone of its star.

*possibly* Dimethyl Sulphide - only produced on Earth by life. It's still to be confirmed.

Kepler K2-18 b may - possibly - just maybe - harbour some potential signs of life. If we check again.

[RMH999]

Hybrid between Pampas Fox and Dog (1st ever fox-dog hybrid) 

Pampas foxes are Lycalopex (false Fox) - they're more closely related to wolves, but outside the Canis genus.

[robkelk]

Scientists drop antimatter to see if it falls

Spoiler

It does.

[hazard]

This would seem to be experimental evidence that antimatter is subject to gravity the same way normal matter is.

[robkelk]

Astronomers spot collision between two exoplanets, both feared vaporized

[Bob Schroeck]

... both feared vaporized

<big innocent eyes> Who, the astronomers?

<grin>

I'm surprised you didn't use "When Worlds Collide" as the title of that post.

[RMH999]

 
 
 Big Badda Boom - astronomers see evidence of two Neptune size planets colliding.

[Norgarth]

Anton Petrov - Something Exploded in the Middle of Nowhere Far from Any Galaxy



EDIT:
Anton Petrov- We Finally have Some Major Updates from Mercury

[Norgarth]

Anton Petrov - Strange triple star disappeared in just 50 minutes and no one knows why...



EDIT)
Anton Petrov - Evidence that Planet Theia formed massive structures inside Earth

[Norgarth]

Anton Petrov - Jet from M87 Black hole makes stars explode and wobbles weirdly



Anton Petrov - Something collided with Jupiter, signs of life on Europa, and Io's massive magma ocean

[robkelk]

The Register: US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft

First, it looks like somebody read Chris Hadfield's latest novel and remembered what they were doing at Jackass Lake a half-century ago.

Second:

Under the military lab's Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear (JETSON) High Power program,

"Jane! Get me off this crazy thing!"

[Bob Schroeck]

Seven-minute gamma-ray shockwave from newborn black hole smacked into the upper atmosphere and left it reacting for ten hours afterward.

[classicdrogn]

Thank you, Ozone Layer. Us down here in the Bozo Layer are trying to get better; it's good to know you still love us despite everything.

[Bob Schroeck]

The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night":

[Norgarth]

Anton Petrov - Exciting Star System with 6 planets orbiting with perfect rhythm

[Bob Schroeck]

Physicist Discovers 'Paradox-Free' Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible

[Dartz]

Technically, the Solstice is on the 22nd here.

By a grand total of 1 second, 22nd December is the shorter day. The actual Solstice is at about 3 in the morning tomorrow, so the 21st is still the American solstice.

It's pedantry of the highest order.