Day: February 12, 2016

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E&T news weekly #81 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week

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Friday 12 February 2016  Jade Fell, assistant features editor Ground-penetrating radar spies on wombat colonies This is the news that the University of Adelaide has begun researching the social lives of the southern hairy-nosed wombats using a ground-penetrating radar. Aside from the fact that this piece of news is excellently written by yours truly, I absolutely hate it. I really did not enjoy having to research and write the story, but we wanted to see how many of you would be lured into reading a story about something warm and fuzzy. Normally I’m all for the warm and fuzzy – … Continue reading E&T news weekly #81 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week

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#GravityWaves possibly discovered – physics enthusiasts definitely excited – an annotated infographic

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As predicted by Albert Einstein in his 1916 General Theory of Relativity, astronomers may finally have found the elusive gravitational waves, mysterious ripples in the fabric of space. As these ripples pass the Earth, local space is alternately stretched and compressed. Einstein was yesterday said to be “ecstatic” at the news, as he pedalled around the cosmos on his white bicycle. The worldwide scientific team behind the project – the LIGO collaboration – observed the warping of space-time generated by the collision of two black holes, a event in space that occurred over a billion light-years from Earth. The findings … Continue reading #GravityWaves possibly discovered – physics enthusiasts definitely excited – an annotated infographic