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Physicists Say They’ve Created a Fluid With ‘Negative Mass’0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 20, 2017
Researchers in the US say they’ve created a fluid with negative mass in the lab… which is exactly as mind-bending as it sounds.

By David Aragorn
What Does a Black Hole Really Look Like?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 20, 2017
39-year-old drawing hints at what the Event Horizon Telescope may have just captured: the true shape of a black hole

By David Aragorn
New infrared-emitting device could allow energy harvesting from waste heat 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 20, 2017
A new reconfigurable device that emits patterns of thermal infrared light in a fully controllable manner could one day make it possible to collect waste heat at infrared wavelengths and turn it into usable energy.

By David Aragorn
Cassini finds final ingredient for alien life in Enceladus’s sea 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 20, 2017
Enceladus is ripe for life. In one final pass through the icy moon’s liquid plumes, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft found molecular hydrogen, which indicates favourable conditions for life in Enceladus’s subsurface sea.

By David Aragorn
Could Moon Miners Use Railguns to Launch Ore into Space?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- April 19, 2017
The United States Navy fired a projectile at Mach 6 during a recent test with an electromagnetic railgun, suggesting that early ideas about using such tech to launch payloads from the lunar surface might not be so sci-fi after all.

By David Aragorn
Volcanic Activity on Ancient Mars May Have Produced Organic Life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2017
New research suggests that active volcanoes on the Red Planet could have created an environment habitable to ancient microbes.

By David Aragorn
First ‘image’ of a dark matter web that connects galaxies 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2017
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to capture the first composite image of a dark matter bridge that connects galaxies together. The scientists publish their work in a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

By David Aragorn
Researchers link robots into surveillance teams 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 19, 2017
If you were monitoring a security camera and saw someone set down a backpack and walk away, you might pay special attention – especially if you had been alerted to watch that particular person. According to Cornell researchers, this might be a job robots could do better than humans, by communicating at the speed of light and sharing images.

By David Aragorn
The Mystery of How Black Holes Collide and Merge Is Beginning to Unravel 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2017
A new study pursues a kind of “paleontology” for gravitational waves in an attempt to explain how and why black holes collide and merge.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Are Getting Closer to Understanding Where All the Antimatter Has Gone 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 18, 2017
You and me, we’re matter. Everyone you know is matter. Everything on Earth, spare a few particles, is matter. Most of the things in space are matter. But we don’t have convincing reasons why there should be so much more matter than antimatter. So where’s all the antimatter?

By David Aragorn