The Week In Numbers: The Oldest Star In The Universe, Gaming For Science, And More
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
Love 'Bot Dan Bracaglia 90 minutes: the time it takes to make your own light-up Valentine's Day card using conductive ink 13 billion years: the age of the oldest known star in the universe 14,000 tons: the mass of Fermilab's unfinished, 500-mile-long neutrino detector, which saw its first particles this week Detector Block A worker with one block of Fermilab's Ash River neutrino detector. The overall detector is made up of 28 such blocks. Photo by Fermilab 73 percent: the alarmingly high injury rate for women's snowboard cross during the 2010 Winter Games (see how that compares to other events here) 32 feet: the wingspan of Taranis, the UK's new stealth drone Taranis In Flight ...