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Atomic clocks are off by just one second every nearly 40 billion years
The new atomic lattice clock broke the record for accuracy by missing just one second after 39.15 billion years.
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Wild boars are rampant in Bavaria, Germany, but why doesn't anyone dare to eat them?
In Bavaria, Germany, every hunting season, hunters go into the forest to hunt wild boars, but the killed wild boars are often inedible or cannot be sold because most of…
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Ultra-precise atomic optical clock redefines the length of a second
The more detailed detection of small changes in the flow of time could help scientists uncover new physical evidence.
New technology
China synthesizes a new crystal, producing a laser 13 times stronger than the old technology
It is not strange that China leads the way in crystal research, used in laser technology.
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Nuclear disaster from a stolen medical device
In 1985, IGR moved to a new facility, leaving some medical equipment, including a box made of lead and steel, containing one capsule of cesium chloride, purchased and us…
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Rare earth elements can help redefine time
In a brief second, we can do a lot of things: recognize the acquaintance, snap your fingers, feel love, sleepiness or sneezing.
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What is the world like if nuclear reactors explode simultaneously?
Scientists tried to calculate how many radioactive nuclides flew into the air when the nuclear reactors melted and how long the planet could not live.
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Two watches go against each other around the world, coming home not just the same hour
Did you know, two watches going around the world in two opposite directions, will give different results when brought to contrast?
Oceanography
The Japanese Ministry of the Environment caught radioactive contaminated salmon
The content of radioactive substances in the body of salmon caught in a river not far from the place of the nuclear incident at Japan's No.1 Fukushima Nuclear Power Plan…
Oceanography
Tuna brings radiation from Japan to the United States
Nicholas Fisher, a researcher at Stony Brook University in the US, and colleagues measured the concentration of cesium (Cs) radioactivity in the body of Pacific tuna alo…
Space science
Recreate Big Bang radiation
Physicists in the US say they have recreated the form of radiation released by the Big Bang in the laboratory to better understand the development of this structure in t…
Animal world
Monkeys near the Fukushima plant may be contaminated
Monkeys that live in the wild environment of Japan's Fukushima area show abnormalities in the blood, believed to be related to radiation after the 2011 nuclear accident.
Environment
The fate of the island tried 23 nuclear bombs
Bikini Island in the center of the Pacific is the site of 23 nuclear bomb tests in the middle of the last century.
Environment
Detection of Fukushima radiation on the Canadian coast
Scientists first discovered radiation leaking from Japan's Fukushima plant along the North American coast.
Environment
Fukushima radiation to the North American coast
US scientists recently reported that radiation leaked from the Fukushima plant in Japan will spread to North American coasts this year.