Tag Archives: Discovery
Planet Nine
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Last Wednesday. NASA scientists announced the discovery of 715 new exoplanets by the Kepler space observatory. To put that in context, the total number of exoplanets discovered prior to the new megafind was 1000.
Related: Distant Earths
Eureka!
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Veritaserum’s Derek Muller guests on this week’s Mental Floss list show about accidental discoveries including Viagra, Post-It notes and the cardiac pacemaker.
Scientists names with their famous achievements represented typographically, as created by Indian graphic designer Kapil Bhagat to celebrate India’s National Science Day.
Also available as 8″x10″ posters.
No C.V. Raman, strangely
Dr Curtis Cooper of the University of Central Missouri has discovered the largest known Mersenne prime number. It has 17,425,170 digits.
Above is a mere snippet of its full glory.
Want to see what it looks like in abbreviated form?
Want to see the whole thing?
Thought not.
