First-ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds

Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley

The original reactant molecule that is resting on a flat silver surface is imaged both before and after the reaction, which occurs when the temperature > 90° Celsius. 
The two most common final products of the reaction are shown. The three-angstrom scale bars (an angstrom is a ten-billionth of a meter) indicate that the reactant and product molecules are about a billionth of a meter across...

>>Continue reading the article at phys.org<<

What does space sound like? | I Fucking Love Science

Photo credit: The image is of the central 50 pc (~150 light years) of the Galactic centre showing ionised gas, hot and warm dust. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope

NASA’s Voyager 1 has passed the heliosphere and into the interstellar medium. NASA knew the spacecraft had reached this point because of the vibrations of interstellar plasma detected by Voyager's antennae. The sounds were recorded using an onboard plasma wave instrument, which detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013.

The Voyager I & II Spacecraft have sent back recordings from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. You can listen to​ some more space sounds here.

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Teensy alien-looking skeleton from Chile poses a medical mystery

Sirius via YouTube

A 6-inch-long (15-centimeter-long) skeleton was found in Chile's Atacama Desert. The skeleton showed several anomalies, including its alien-like skull, teensy body and the fact that it had just 10 ribs rather than the 12 that healthy humans normally have.

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Obscure C++ Features

Here is a collection of obscure C++ features, gathered over the years by the author of the post, Evan Wallace. Hopefully you'll learn something from this page even if you already know C++ pretty well. The features below are roughly ordered from least to most obscure.

1. What square brackets really mean
2. Most vexing parse
3. Alternate operator tokens
4. Redefining keywords
5. Placement new
6. Branch on variable declaration
7. Turing complete template metaprogramming
8. Pointer-to-member operators
9. Static methods on instances
10. Overloading ++ and --
11. Operator overloading and evaluation order
12. Functions as template parameters
13. Template template parameters
14. Function try blocks

  
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Does Decreased Brightness Increase Your Phone's Battery Life?

How About an Experiment?

 

How do you measure the energy use in a phone? I’m sure there’s an app for that, but I don’t have that app. Instead, I tried something different. What if I charged my phone up to 100% battery and kept it plugged into the charger? In this case, I can assume that an increased load on the power charger is just due to an increased power use of the phone. Maybe this isn’t true, but I can assume it anyway.


Full article @Wired.com

Your World of Text

Your World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor. The changes made by other people appear on your screen as they happen. Everyone starts in the same place, but you can scroll through the world using your mouse.
Put any letters at the end of the URL to go to a new world. For example, http://yourworldoftext.com/forexample. They all start off blank. You can also create a custom world for you and your friends.

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