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Mar 16, 2022: Robot vision to capture transparent objects in three dimensions (Nanowerk News) Transparent objects have their drawbacks: It is not without reason that we have stickers of birds’ ...
The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...
The fastest things ever made by humans are spacecraft, and the fastest spacecraft reached 330,000 mph – only 0.05% the speed of light. But there are ways to go faster.
Objects Traveling at the Speed of Light Appear Upside Down, Proving Einstein’s 1905 'Special Theory of Relativity' Imagine watching a spaceship zoom past at unimaginable speeds—so fast it is ...
Image Credits: Schematic of MagLev Experiement - George M. Whitesides Group, PNAS Journal, Subramaniam et al, 12980-12985, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1408705111 ...
The fastest object is only 3.75 inches in length – it’s the badminton birdie, also known as the shuttlecock. Record-setting objects in sports Made of cork and goose feathers, the badminton ...
Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted comet hailing from parts unknown, only the third time such an interstellar object ...
A mysterious object speeding through our solar system has officially been confirmed by NASA as an interstellar visitor — only the third of its kind ever recorded. The object, initially labelled ...
You know you can’t reach the speed of light for a massive object, so the naive thought that “50% the speed of light + 50% the speed of light = 100% the speed of light” has to be wrong.
Wheels in Higher Dimensions The latest work provides a general algorithm for constructing constant-width objects in any dimension by extending the Reuleaux intersection method.