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A Satellite Clean Room Is A Neat-Freak Paradise
Sending things into space is obviously expensive as hell. One of the many, amny reasons why is the manufacturing process: everything that goes in or on a space vehicle has to be built in a clean environment, and there’s more to it than just being generous with the bleach.
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The Chemistry Involved In Lighting A Match Is Surprisingly Awesome
Video: Many of you may remember this slow motion video from a little over a year ago. The American Chemical Society has now taken this footage — shot at an astounding 4000 frames per second — to explain what’s actually happening at the molecular level when a match is struck.
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Dogs And Certain Primates May Be Able To See Magnetic Fields
Some animals are capable of magnetoreception — an added sense that helps them detect magnetic fields. European scientists have now learned that the molecule responsible for this trait is also found in the eyes of dogs and some primates, which suggests they too might be capable of seeing magnetic fields.
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This Scientist Is Turning Every Element In The Periodic Table Into Music
Materials scientists typically rely on their eyes to analyse data, but soon they could employ their ears as well. Setting the motions of molecules to music can help scientists identify hidden patterns in their data that might otherwise be too small, or occur over such short time scales that they’re easily missed by the human…