Daily Archives: May 25, 2012

Never waste a drop of ketchup again

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Deskarati

It’s one of the most common and infuriating dining problems everyone encounters: getting ketchup to pour smoothly out of bottle and onto your plate. You’ve probably heard a number of solutions from “tap the 57″ to “spin the bottle between … Continue reading →

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How many skittles?

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Deskarati
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Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Deskarati

A robotic arm on the International Space Station ISS has grabbed and attached the Dragon supply vessel. The arm pulled the ship into a free berthing port on the underside of the orbiting platform. Dragon has been built by the … Continue reading →

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Get ready for the transit of Venus

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Deskarati

Observers at ESTEC witnessed a spectacular event during the Venus transit on 8 June 2004 – an aeroplane joined the planet in front of the Sun for a few fractions of a second. The image shows a still frame taken … Continue reading →

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Landmark calculation clears the way to answering how matter is formed

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Deskarati

An international collaboration of scientists, including Thomas Blum, associate professor of physics, is reporting in landmark detail the decay process of a subatomic particle called a kaon – information that may help answer fundamental questions about how the universe began. … Continue reading →

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