David Harris, Author at Different Impulse

The Crab Nebula is a remnant of a supernova, where a pulsar now resides at the center. The Crab Pulsar rotates 30 times each second.

September 10, 2019 Science

Right Again, Einstein! Wobbling Pulsar Confirms General Relativity

A pulsar 25,000 light-years away is wobbling in a weird way. But Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicted it more

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August 29, 2019 Technology

VRGO Mini virtual reality controller

Following on from the success of the VRGO seat the development team at VRGO have now created the Mini a

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A giant, floating kidney grille, coming at you

August 28, 2019 Cars

Vantablack BMW X6

Vantablack, first announced in 2014, is a rare real-life special effect, a coating so black that it sucks in almost

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August 28, 2019 Science

Physicists Just Released Step-by-Step Instructions for Building a Wormhole

Everybody wants a wormhole. I mean, who wants to bother traveling the long-and-slow routes throughout the universe, taking tens of

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August 27, 2019 News

Researchers develop a better way to harness the power of solar panels

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a way to better harness the volume of energy collected by solar

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Artist's illustration of an asteroid in space.

August 27, 2019 Science

Two Huge Asteroids Are Going to Pass Earth Tomorrow

Two large asteroids are set to sail safely past Earth next tomorrow, according to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies

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August 22, 2019 Technology

Cybershoes let you physically walk, run, and jump in VR

If you ask me, VR is the best thing that’s happened to gaming since the invention of the joystick thanks to

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July 15, 2019 Science

Hubble Spots “Impossible” Debris Disk Around a Black Hole

The Hubble Space Telescope is like an old dog that is constantly teaching the astronomical community new tricks. In the

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Carbon-chain molecules as complex as C60

July 9, 2019 Science

Interstellar iron isn’t missing, it’s just hiding in plain sight

Astrophysicists know that iron (chemical symbol: Fe) is one of the most abundant elements in the universe, after lightweight elements

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June 28, 2019 Science

Huge Burst of Mysterious Cosmic Radio Signals Traced Back To Exact Location in Galaxy Billions of Light Years Away

A huge one-off burst of mysterious cosmic radio waves has been precisely located to a galaxy 3.6 billion light years away. The powerful shiver of

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3 arcmin × 3 arcmin Chandra X-ray image of the pulsar vicinity in 0.5–10 keV range smoothed with a 25 pixel Gaussian kernel. The ‘+’ symbol shows the pulsar position. The ‘jet’ and ‘counter-jet’ are marked. The 30 arcsec × 30 arcsec image part, enclosed by the cyan dashed box and smoothed with a 3 pixel Gaussian kernel, is enlarged in the inset. The possible PWN torus and the base part of the ‘jet’ are marked.

June 12, 2019 Science

X-ray study sheds more light into the nature of a gamma-ray pulsar

Using archival data from ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have investigated one of gamma-ray radio-quiet pulsars

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June 10, 2019 Science

Scientists Discover That This Baffling Black Hole Is Way Smaller Than They Thought It Was

Scientists have measured the mass of a black hole in a neighboring dwarf galaxy known as NGC 4395, and their

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