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You’ve heard all about the wonder properties of graphene, so come meet its one dimensional cousin, carbyne. A chain of single carbon atoms to graphene’s two-dimensional layer of atoms, carbyne has some pretty amazing properties of its own. By one measure, it’s the strongest material in the world (over graphene!), and a new study finds it has the strange ability to go from conductor to insulator with a small stretch. Read more…
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World’s Strongest Material Goes from Conductor to Insulator When Stretched
Earth is an unforgiving place. Volcanoes erupt, rivers erode, continents break up—it’s a small miracle every time a millions-of-years-old creature is found fossilized in rock. By comparison, the moon is dead and lifeless; astronaut footprints will be preserved forever in moon dust. So it’s the moon that could hold the secrets to life on ancient Earth. Read more…
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The Moon Might Be Littered With Fossils From Ancient Earth
Instagram’s new messaging app Bolt has launched in Singapore, New Zealand, and South Africa. Read more…
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Instagram’s Snapchat Rival, Bolt, Just Launched In 3 Non-US Countries
Here’s an insanely scary roller coaster for those who need to feel like they’re close to dying in order to feel like they’re living: the Sky Tower in Tivoli Friheden in Denmark. The ride isn’t a ride at all but actually a fall. That is, the safety rope you’re connected to cuts off and you free fall from a 100 foot tower at 55 mph down to the ground. For fun. Read more…
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Roller coaster cuts the safety rope and makes people plummet 100 feet
Following rumors earlier this week , Amazon has just announced its new Kindle Unlimited subscription service . Pay $10 a month, and you can read as much as you want (from a pool of 600, 000 books, at least). Read more…
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Kindle Unlimited Is Here: Read As Much As You Like For $10 a Month
Amazon is testing an ebook rental service called “Kindle Unlimited.” The e-commerce company put up test pages for the service, which will offer “unlimited access to 600, 000 titles.” Users would pay $9.99 a month for access to the extensive online lending library. Amazon yanked the pages today but they’re still available on Google Cache. Read more…
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Amazon’s Prepping a "Kindle Unlimited" Subscription Service For Books
Behold the spectacular trailer for Master Jiang and the Six Kingdoms, a new Chinese animation feature that feels like a wild magic mix between Seven Samurai, Ran, and Lord of the Rings through a Studio Ghibli lenses. It looks amazing and, the cel animation was done by just two animators: Li Wei and Pei Fei. Read more…
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I can’t wait to see this awesome Chinese animation movie
Yellowstone National Park is riddled with constantly changing geothermal hot spots —it’s part of the reason for the park’s famous geysers. But this past Thursday, the area around one section of road got so hot that asphalt literally started melting. Read more…
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It’s So Hot In Yellowstone That a Road Literally Melted
If you’ve ever been to a supermarket in the UK, you were probably surprised (if not a little grossed out) to see stacks of eggs hanging out with nary a refrigerated one in site. As it turns out, we might actually be the crazy ones. Read more…
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Why the British Don’t Refrigerate Eggs