Gold usually melts at 1,300 kelvins—a temperature hotter than fresh lava from a volcano. But scientists recently shot a nanometers-thick sample of gold with a laser and heated it to an astonishing 19,000 kelvins (33,740 degrees Fahrenheit)—all without melting the material. The feat was completely unexpected and has overturned 40 years of accepted physics about the temperature limits of solid …
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Bakersfield gets first trailer, and it looks astonishing
Fallout: Bakersfield gets its first trailer, and it looks astonishing, and we need it right now. Since its inception in 1997, long before it became a Bethesda-owned property, the Fallout series was already one of the most popular post-apocalyptic RPGs of its genre, and now, thanks to Bethesda, it’s still going strong today. Under the guidance of Bethesda, we’ve had …
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