Today in science!

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I will try to update this daily and sometimes even hourly but sometimes it might be weekly of things that I've found through various reading of the internet. Please feel free to add anything you've found interesting.

 

Do you know all the current states of matter?

 

If you said three you may be a bit older. If you said four you would be correct. Kind of. But there are a lot of different states depending on certain conditions. To find more on that have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_matter

 

But to learn about the latest and greatest state of matter we have Dropleton.

 

 

 

Part particle, part liquid, a newly discovered "quasiparticle" has been dubbed a quantum droplet, or a dropleton. The dropleton is a collection of electrons and "holes" (places where electrons are missing) inside a semiconductor, and it has handy properties for studying quantum mechanics.

 

Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dropleton-quantum-droplet-quasiparticle/

 

Tore your ACL? Did the doctor check your ALL too?

 

 

 

Two knee surgeons at University Hospitals Leuven have provided the first full anatomical description of a previously enigmatic ligament in the human knee. The ligament appears to play an important role in patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears.

 

Source: http://www.kuleuven.be/english/news/new-ligament-discovered-in-the-human-knee

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Dutch scientists have unlocked the secret to the sci-fi phenomenon of teleportation, successfully causing an atom to vanish and reappear nearly 10 feet away.

 

The Irish Times reports that a team led by Professor Ronald Hanson of Delft University conducted a demonstration in which information encoded into sub-atomic particles was teleported between two points with 100 percent accuracy for the very first time.

 

Source: http://elitedaily.com/news/world/scientific-breakthrough-may-laid-groundwork-human-teleportation/613912/?twitter=yes

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I would like to thank Verizon for creating this ad:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP3cyRRAfX0

 

Since the World Cup is going on a lot of science has been put towards creating a better ball because an off the shelf product is for consumers and Nintendo.

 

 

 

In the 2010 World Cup, players complained the ball was wonky, so this year has an all-new ball. NASA used smoke, lasers, and fluid boxes to test out its aerodynamics. Aside from producing some awesome photographs, the actual science is pretty cool, too. A normal ball has 32 panels, but why would the World Cup use an off-the-shelf stock ball? Instead, they use custom designs, each with a unique name. The previous event's ball was Jabulani, an eight-panelled ball, while this year's ball is Brazuca, an six-panelled ball.

 

 

Source: http://space.io9.com/aerodynamics-of-the-world-cups-new-ball-1590242094

[Vampire the buffet slayer]

Have to give you credit. At least you kept all of the potentially dumb threads in one already existing dumb thread.

And by the way, when you make a thread and nobody posts in it you should let if fall.

By me posting in it, it my have become slightly more interesting so maybe someone else will post.

You're welcome.