NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a plastic on Titan, a moon of the planet Saturn. It is propylene, a ubiquitous chemical in our daily lives that is used to make food storage containers, car bumpers, and other consumer products. This is the first time that a component of plastic has been detected outside the Earth.
For the first time in thirteen consecutive years, Coca-Cola has ceased to rank first in Interbrand's top 100 most valuable brands in the world. The position has been taken from him by Apple. Google, in second position, has also managed to get ahead of the soft drink brand this year.
A group of researchers from the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany) has discovered a new species of snail with a translucent shell and minuscule size. The scientists found a single living specimen and seven empty lakes deep in a cave in Croatia, which helped them determine the existence of a new land snail named Zospeum tholussum.
A team of astronomers has detected a millisecond pulsar at a critical stage in its evolution, when it goes from emitting pulses of X-rays to emitting radio waves. Pulsars are magnetized neutron stars, the dead cores of massive stars that exploded as a supernova when they ran out of fuel. They rotate at high speed, emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation hundreds of times per second, like a lighthouse. And they are classified according to how they generate these emissions. Radio pulsars derive their energy from the rotation of their magnetic field, while X-ray pulsars feed on an accretion disk formed by matter ripped from a companion star.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin created the Google search engine at Stanford University (USA) in 1996. Did you know that at the beginning it was called BackRub? And that the name of Google is a play on words with the mathematical term "gogol", whose pronunciation in English is similar to that of "Google" and which refers to the number one followed by 100 zeros?
At CERN, the prestigious laboratory on the outskirts of Geneva dedicated to researching particle physics, some of the world's best physicists and engineers are working to figure out what the universe is made of or what its origins were like. open its doors to Street View so that any Internet user, from any corner of the world, can visit its laboratories, control centers and underground tunnels that house their experiments. "The Street View images will also allow scientists who collaborate in CERN projects to see the equipment that is being used, even if they are working on the other side of the world," they say from the official Google blog. ?
A study published in the SAGE Open magazine reveals that the preferences of Twitter users when choosing which news to read varies depending on the country where they live. Thus, while the British and Americans prefer opinion articles and news belonging to the classic "International" section of newspapers, Brazilians read more news about art and sports.
Scientists have discovered in China the fossil remains of what could be the first creature on the planet with a clearly recognizable face. It is Entelognathus primordialis, it lived 419 million years ago, at the end of the Silurian, it measured around 20 centimeters in length and was the first vertebrate with a modern jaw, as the authors explain in Nature.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
