Gossip Science

Gossip Science

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Gossip Science episodes

  • End of Silicon Era #10

    The modern world is on the verge of entering a new era known as “beyond Moore’s law”. This law, which has governed the computer industry for more than 50 years, predicts that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit will double every two years. But as we reach the limit we have to come up with some new ways.

    6 min
  • Black Hole Spinning 3 times a second #9

    Black holes wobbling three times a second have proved Einstein right. A pair of black holes have been seen wobbling at a rate of three times per second as they merged, in an extreme example of a prediction made by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity that has been seen clearly for the first time.

    5 min
  • Oldest Nuclear Family #7

    DNA extracted from bones and teeth in a 4,600-year-old stone age burial has provided the earliest evidence for the nuclear family as a social structure. The find consists of two parents and two sons who were buried together after being killed in a violent conflict over some of the most fertile farming land in Europe.

    6 min
  • Quantum Foam #6

    Quantum foam or spacetime foam is a theoretical quantum fluctuation of spacetime on very small scales due to quantum mechanics. Matter and antimatter are constantly created and destroyed. These subatomic objects are called virtual particles. The idea was devised by John Wheeler in 1955.

    7 min
  • Tickling the Dragon's Tail #5

    The plutonium pit that killed Daghlian and Slotin was originally nicknamed Rufus, but after the accidents, it came to be called the demon core. The pits that killed tens of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, meanwhile, got no such pejorative monikers.

    7 min
  • Gamma Ray Burst destroys Earth’s Atmosphere #2

    Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are immensely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies. They are the most energetic and luminous electromagnetic events since the Big Bang, recently a GRB hit Earth on 9 October, which managed to rip electrons from Earth's atmosphere, so we are going to discuss about it.For any queries contact us on our email [email protected]

    6 min

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