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Hii, This is Science Feed. Have you ever heard about strange matter ?? . . . . . If no, then this line is for you ;) "Strange Matter is a hypothetical form of quark matter which is more stable than nuclear matter." There is a reason for saying it strange. It is predicted that strange matter is found in the core of the neutron star. Neutron stars are one of the densest bodies in the universe. When a star, having 8 times the mass of its initial mass, gets exhausted all its nuclear fuel, then the star starts collapsing in its own core and temperature exceeds. As temperature rises, electrons and protons start forming neutrons by the electron capture process. Slowly, the repulsion force and neutron pressure stop the contraction of the core but start moving outwards leading to the formation of a supernova. Inside supernova, if the left core has 3 times less than the mass of the initial star, it becomes a neutron star. Otherwise, it becomes a black hole. Now, ins...

Hello, This is your Science Feed. As we know Lithium is used in most of our electrical equipment, mostly in our smartphones. But, these batteries have their own limitations which are annoying. The biggest reason is that Lithium-ion batteries explode vigorously. Another reason to replace Lithium-ion batteries is their short life and low charge-storing capacity. Today, We will check out those batteries which are better than our Lithium-ion batteries. Here we go; Sodium-Ion Batteries               These batteries are quite similar to Lithium-ion batteries because sodium ions are used instead of lithium ions as the charge carrier. The development of both types of batteries started side-by-side but lithium-ion batteries over took sodium one. There are lots of advantages of using sodium-ion batteries over lithium-ion batteries. First of all, Sodium is the sixth most abundant element on Earth. So, no problem with its availability. In terms...

Theranos, the blood testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that pulled off the biggest scam ever happened in the Silicon Valley. From 2003 to 2008 this company grew spectacularly, but as we all know whenever someone tries to have everything in the world someone else is waiting for them to grab them down to nothing just like what happened to Stratton Oakmont and it's very CEO Jordan Belfort . Stratton Oakmont was the biggest Wall Street firm till 1999 when Belfort accused of money laundering, stock market manipulation and fined for 190 million dollars. The same goes for Theranos, so lets begin from the beginning and see what was Theranos hiding in their vault. Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford at the age of 19 to start Theranos, which was then called Real-Time Cures. She was inspired both by her grandfather's medical career, and her summer 2003 internship at the Genome Institute of Singapore. Briefly after the internship she wrote up a patent application f...

Hii, This is Science Feed. Would you like to eat meat grown in a lab??? Hmm........Is this even possible? So, Lots of startups are developing ways to grow meats in labs among which leading companies are Mosa Meat, Memphis Meats, SuperMeat and Finless Foods. These companies take the muscle cells, do lots of processes to convert tiny cells into petri dish sized tissues. The biggest challenges to lab-grown meat are these are time-consuming, taste and looks, too expensive to grow and resources for its development. How this synthetic meat is cultured in the lab? The simple technique of "cell culturing" is done with cells obtained from the livestock. The cells are fed with the nutrient-rich serum which leads to the growth of cell into muscle tissues in a few days. After the cells have grown, they more look like the strips of muscle fibres. The resulting tissue can be used in food cooking.         To this innovative idea, bigger MNCs have come to raise funds lik...

People say records are meant to be broken, but first, we have to make records then someone else would break it. Isn't it? The Opportunity Rover is that kind of thing we're talkin' bout, the rover that NASA Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, which is as planned to last 90-sol duration of activity (slightly more than 90 Earth days). But it gives 14 years of service which is a remarkable achievement. Opportunity landed in Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004, three weeks after its twin Spirit (MER-A) touched down on the other side of the planet.                                             Opportunity didn't survive for over 14 years because its mission was easy. It encountered challenges that required its engineers to be resourceful. For instance, the rover's right-front wheel sometimes drew more current than the other wheels, so en...

Yah, You got it right!!! A new startup company in Finland has a unique idea of extracting edible food from carbon dioxide. The name of the company is Solar Foods Ltd. and this company is quite interesting because of its idea.                               This edible food looks, feels and also tastes like wheat flour which is highly rich in protein, carbohydrates, and fats. This company claims that it uses only air, electricity, water, and special microbes (an undisclosed type of soil-derived bacteria) to produce this food. Solein is the name given to this single-cell protein by Solar Foods Ltd. The company plans to sell its products by 2021. During the production of Solein, 100 times less water is needed than soy-based plants and 20,000 times less land is required than traditional farming. Lets comparison it with beef and soy, For 1kg of beef, 15,000 litres of water is required. For 1kg of soy. 2,500 ...

During the Coronavirus pandemic, we have heard nearly no good news except the healing of our ozone layer.                 Recently, there is a drastic recovery in the hole of the Ozone layer after the agreement of Montreal Protocol(1980). This is one of the positive news during the Coronavirus pandemic. The reason behind this recovery is not clear yet. Some scientists are saying that this is due to less production of ODS (Ozone Depleting Substances) and carbon dioxide. But, some scientists say this is a temporary fix in the ozone hole which may be due to the usual mild temperature in the atmosphere of the ozone layer. 'The study adds to growing evidence showing profound effectiveness of the Montreal Protocol. NOt only has the treaty spurred healing of the ozone layer, but it's also driving recent changes in Southern Hemisphere air circulation patterns. The challenges in this study were proving our hypothesis that ozone recovery is, in fa...