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They don’t look much, but these little black balls harness the power of bright light to zip across the surface of water — pulling up to 150 times their own weight in the process.
This grainy black-and-white image may not look like much, but it’s a record-breaker. A radar scan acquired by satellite and beamed back to Earth by laser, it allowed the European Space Agency (ESA) to identify ships off the coast of Brazil in less than 18 minutes — without any satellite…
Setting fire to things isn’t in and of itself science. But if you record it using schlieren photography at 10,000 frames per second — as in this video of laser-ignited methane — then it’s getting closer.
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