How Can Space Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light?

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Flickr user Det58 Cosmologists are intellectual time travelers. Looking back over billions of years, these scientists are able to trace the evolution of our Universe in astonishing detail. 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang occurred. Fractions of a second later, the fledgling Universe expanded exponentially during an incredibly brief period of time called inflation. Over the ensuing...

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New Contact Lens Comes With Tiny Telescope, Letting You To Zoom In & Out With A Wink

Swiss researchers are developing contact lenses that contain tiny telescopes to boost vision and zoom in and out with the wink of an eye. Credit: Eric Tremblay and Joe Ford / EPFL. We generally take our vision for granted, which is rather surprising, considering that there are hundreds of millions of people in the world who have vision problems—some 285 million people worldwide. Although a majority of these issues can be attributed to...

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Scientists Just Discovered Nature’s Strongest Material (known to man)

Microscopic image of limped teeth. Via University of Portsmouth We use nature as a guide for producing a lot of different technologies. We watch birds fly, and we dream of ways that we can soar across the skies with wing-like structures. We turn to the ocean, we see the way that fish glide through the waters, and then we use these principles to develop fins for our feet, allowing us to travel through the sea at increased speeds. Now, we may...

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