(courtesy of the BBC) The European Space Agency is launching it's Goce satellite to measure minute changes in the Earth's gravity.
Attesting to the sensitivity of the device:
""Imagine a snowflake, which has a fraction of a gram, slowly falling down on to the deck of a supertanker. The acceleration that the supertanker experiences from that snowflake is comparable to the sensitivity of our instrument," he told BBC News."
Enjoy the article here, especially the picture of what the shape of the Earth could really look like:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7935621.stm
article two for today is this one: a self sealing/repairing coating. Applications for this blow my mind apart. Imagine houses which heal themselves!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7939776.stm
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