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Building kills COVID with dozens of hi-tech gadgets
Disinfection robots, thermal body cameras and virus-killing air-con systems — welcome to the Covid-free office of the future. A workplace in Bucharest filled with anti-virus innovations could become the new standard in office design.
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NASA | Swift Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies
Most large galaxies contain a giant central black hole. In an active galaxy, matter falling toward the supermassive black hole powers high-energy emissions so intense that two classes of active galaxies, quasars and blazars, rank as the...
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New study suggests exposure to sunlight could alter gut microbiome in humans
Exposure to ultraviolet rays may increase biodiversity of the gut microbiome in humans.
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NASA | A Swift Tour of the Nearest Galaxies in UV Light
Astronomers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa., have used NASA's Swift satellite to create the most detailed surveys of the Large and Small Magellanic...
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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 54, Astrophysics Pioneers Program Small Steps, Giant Leaps
NASA Astrophysicist and Pioneers Program Lead Scientist Michael Garcia discusses the new program’s first mission concepts selected for further development.
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NASA | Take a "Swift" Tour of the Andromeda Galaxy
NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31. Also known as the Andromeda Galaxy, M31 is the largest and closest such galaxy to our own. It's more than 220,000 light-years across...
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NASA | Highlights of Swift's Decade of Discovery
NASA's Swift satellite rode to orbit aboard a Delta II rocket on November 20, 2004, and it's still going strong. Swift's unique instrumentation allows it to quickly locate an interesting high-energy outburst, automatically determine its...
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The Science and Applications of Black Lights
This video explains how black lights work and their various applications. Black lights emit long wave ultraviolet light, which is invisible to the human eye but causes certain objects, like phosphors, to glow.
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Airport ‘robot’ zaps Covid with death rays
The coronavirus scare has prompted airports to come up with innovative gadgets designed to combat the virus.
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Antarctic: 2021’s massive ozone hole finally closes
A colder than usual winter in the southern hemisphere fed a deep and larger than average hole that persisted for a longer period than usual.
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Seas of Infinity: OAO 2's 50th Anniversary
On Dec. 7, 1968, an Atlas-Centaur rocket carrying NASA’s heaviest and most ambitious uncrewed satellite to date blasted into the sky from Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Formally known as Orbiting...
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NASA | SDO's Instruments: EVE
Dean Pesnell, the SDO Project Scientist, explains how the the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) instrument will allow us to better measure solar irradiance in extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. This type of irradiance, which...
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NASA | MAVEN Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph
The philosophy of NASA's Mars Program has been "Follow the water," but "Where did the atmosphere go?" is still a lingering question. Although fluvial features such as dry riverbeds are visible on Mars, the atmosphere today is too thin to...
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Swift Tracks Water From Interstellar Comet Borisov
For the first time, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tallied the water lost from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar system in late 2019. Comets are frozen...
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NASA | LAMP: Peering into the Lunar Dark
The Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) is an instrument on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission to map and study the Moon. LAMP is a spectrograph that images the ultraviolet region of the spectrum. Utilizing the faint glow of...
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NASA | SDO's Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit
Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's atmosphere, magnetic field and also provide a...
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NASA | Incandescent Sun
This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun. The original frames are...
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Rainbow Colors: Why Don't You See All Colors In The Rainbow?
There are three main reasons why we don’t see all the colors in a rainbow: 1. The colors we see in a rainbow are spectral, which means they are also present in the visible spectrum. 2. Some colors, like pink and brown, are made when two...
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UV-Vis Spectroscopy | Absorption Spectroscopy | AI 03
This video discusses the importance of absorption spectroscopy. A brief idea about ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy is presented in the video. The video shows the light sources used for different regions of operations. The type of...
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Are nebulae actually this colourful? What does Hubble really see?
Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we have seen nebula like never before. But are they really as colourful as Hubble makes out?
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Introduction to Electromagnetic Waves and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
The video explains the basics of electromagnetic waves, including their definition as transverse waves that transfer energy from a source to an absorber. It discusses the seven general sections of the electromagnetic spectrum, going from...
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Hubble and Webb: A New Golden Age of Astronomy
The scientific community is incredibly excited to have these two highly complementary observatories operating together. With their collaboration, they will push the boundaries of knowledge on the backdrop of a rapidly evolving...