AvatarWaqar AhsanStoryboardThe Mariana Trench Is 7 Miles Deep: What’s Down There?AvatarCurated byWorldatlas.comThe Trench sits like a crescent-shaped dent in the floor of the Pacific Ocean, extending over 1500 miles long with an average width of around 43 miles and a depth of almost 7 miles (or just under 36,201 feet). It's deeper than Mount Everest (29,037 ft); at that depth, the weight of water above makes the pressure in the Trench around 1000 times higher than it would be on the ground. Floor vents release bubbles of liquid sulfur and carbon dioxide ...
AvatarWaqar AhsanAvatarAvatarA newly discovered and huge structure in the Milky Way was hidden right in front of usverified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Phil PlaitWe think of the Milky Way galaxy as having well-defined spiral arms swooping around it, starting near the galactic center and smoothly stretching to …
AvatarWaqar AhsanStoryboardScience in miniatureAvatarCurated byNew AtlasFrom imaging devices that can 3D scan the inside of your blood vessels to a mini-boat thinner than a human hair, here is a selection of some of the tiniest tech we have ever seen.
AvatarWaqar AhsanAvatarAvatarWhy Isn’t Anyone Seriously Challenging The Big Bang?Forbes - Ethan SiegelIn the early half of the 20th century, even after the discovery of the expanding Universe, physicists considered a wide variety of origin stories for our Universe. In the mid-1960s, the cosmic microwave background — widely interpreted as the leftover glow predicted by the Big Bang — was discovered. …
AvatarWaqar AhsanAvatarAvatar'Dark sirens' could solve one of the greatest mysteries in cosmologyLive Science - By Adam MannA team has offered a way for gravitational wave events called dark sirens to resolve a crisis in cosmology In recent years, cosmologists have been …
AvatarWaqar AhsanFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNASA Discovers Gas Emanating From Uranusneatorama.com - Miss CellaniaAstronomers and data scientists have discovered a 35-year-old fart while poring over the signals sent back by the Voyager 2 space probe as it …
AvatarWaqar AhsanMysterious New Warp Drive Patent Surfaces Onlinethedebrief.org - Christopher PlainAfter appearing for decades in science fiction, then moving into an actual theory, a new patent for an updated warp drive was published last year to …
AvatarWaqar AhsanFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNASA backs concepts for deep-drilling Mars rover and interstellar-object probegeekwire.com - Alan BoyleThe latest crop of NASA-backed concepts for far-out space exploration includes “borebots” that could drill as far as a mile beneath the Martian …
AvatarWaqar AhsanWhat If We Could Change The Laws of Physics? | UnveiledWatchMojoWhat would happen if we changed the laws of physics? Join us... and find out!
AvatarWaqar AhsanAvatarAvatarThe Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space StationsWIRED - Daniel OberhausSpent rockets are dangerous space trash, but they could be the future of living and working in orbit. In early October, a dead Soviet satellite and …
AvatarWaqar AhsanAvatarAvatar5 Little-Known Facts About The Sun’s Journey Through The GalaxyForbes - Bruce DormineyOur Sun’s journey around the Milky Way’s galactic center puts it through some of the most complicated motions imaginable. Since time immemorial, astronomers and celestial mechanics have struggled to understand the how and why of our Star’s journey through the galactic disk. But this American Museum …
AvatarWaqar AhsanAvatarAvatarCaracal, facts and photosverified_publisherNational GeographicCommon Name:CaracalScientific Name:Caracal caracalDiet:CarnivoreSize:Two feet to 3.5 feet longWeight:25 to 40 pounds IUCN Red List Status:?Least concern Least Concern Extinct Current Population Trend:Unknown What is a caracal? This medium-size wildcat roams the savannas, deserts, and forests of much of …