Cocaine
Technology

Cocaine Bear Isn’t the Only Animal Getting High

Spaced-out sheep, jonesing jaguars, and wasted monkeys. The animal kingdom is full of intoxicated creatures. The new movie Cocaine Bear is based on a true story about a black bear consuming a lethal dose of smuggled drugs. Lots of animals have been documented ingesting toxic substances to get high, and studies have shown that, like humans, lab rats have […]

Earth
Technology

Surprise! Earth’s Inner Core Has Another Inner Core

It’s like finding change in the couch cushion. Using seismic waveform data, researchers believe they’ve discovered Earth’s even smaller inner core. The new inner core is made up of about 400 miles of dense iron, the researchers say. Seismic waves inside the planet represents the only way to really study the inner core. In a real center-of-a-Tootsie Pop […]

Thermodynamics
Technology

The First Law of Thermodynamics Has Been Rewritten

What do we do now? Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems. The law is a bedrock of physics, but has long failed to describe systems that are out of thermodynamic equilibrium. The work could have applications in fields ranging from circuitry and quantum computing to space weather. The first law […]

Physics
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Scientists Defy Physics, Basically Pull Energy Out of Thin Air

That’s not supposed to happen. A shelved theory appears to have new life in pulling energy from one location to another. Two experiments have now extracted energy and filled a vacuum. A fresh world of quantum energy science is opened with the new findings. Energy teleportation sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but now, research shows that you can actually pull […]

Scientists
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Scientists Discovered a Highly Reactive Superacid. It Might Just Break Chemistry.

Now, what do we’ve got right here? A number of the most harmful greenhouse gases, resembling Sulfer Hexafluoride, are laborious to transform into sustainable chemical substances. Scientists from Paderborn College found a brand new “Lewis superacid” that may very well be these lethal gases’ worst enemy. The trouble is a part of a broader initiative […]