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Science geeks may watch science fiction movies and criticise the movie because gadgets in the movie couldn’t possibly be made without leaps in technology. They still know, however, that scientists are inspired by what they see in movies and that these fictional gadgets may soon be made by someone. Oxford University scientists have created transparent [...]

From the Hubble telescope’s images of planetary nebulae comes the idea of how the sun will eventually look when it expires five billion years hence. Once it has exhausted its reserves of hydrogen that feeds a continuous process of nuclear fusion, the sun will become just like any of the nebulae the most beautiful of which is known as the ‘Cat’s [...]

In what was initially a frightening and then very intriguing experience, Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have concluded that peeling out an ordinary scotch tape in vacuum can generate X-rays intense enough to create an x-ray image of one of the scientist’s hands! While the initial fears were obviously about how this would [...]