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O monte Bromo (em indonésio: Gunung Bromo; em javanês: Gunung Brama é um estratovulcão ativo da ilha de Java, Indonésia,[1] situado na província de Java Oriental e regência de Probolinggo.

Faz parte do maciço de Tengger e o cume ergue-se a 2 239 metros de altitude. Apesar de não ser o vulcão mais alto do maciço, é o mais conhecido. A cratera tem cerca de 800 m de diâmetro e 200 m de profundidade. O maciço faz parte do Parque Nacional de Bromo-Tengger-Semeru e é uma das áreas de Java Oriental mais visitadas por turistas. O nome Bromo deriva da pronúncia javanesa de Brama, o deus criador do hinduísmo.O vulcão ergue-se no meio de uma planície chamada Mar de Areia (em javanês: Segara Wedi; em indonésio: Lautan Pasir), classificada como reserva natural desde 1919

     Bromo Volcano Crater

How would the map of Japan with its prefectures look if you translated each kanji into English?

As you may already know, one of the things I fell in love with the Japanese language was kanji. When I studied the map of japan for the first time, I always wondered how would it look translated into English. You could guess some of them like Tokyo meaning “East Capital” or Hiroshima meaning “Wide Island”. But what about the other ones?

Well I finally made a map achieving that. My favorite one was “Love Princess”

Physical Science...In Space!

Each month, we highlight a different research topic on the International Space Station. In May, our focus is physical science.

The space station is a laboratory unlike any on Earth; on-board, we can control gravity as a variable and even remove it entirely from the equation. Removing gravity reveals fundamental aspects of physics hidden by force-dependent phenomena such as buoyancy-driven convection and sedimentation.

Gravity often masks or distorts subtle forces such as surface tension and diffusion; on space station, these forces have been harnessed for a wide variety of physical science applications (combustion, fluids, colloids, surface wetting, boiling, convection, materials processing, etc).

Other examples of observations in space include boiling in which bubbles do not rise, colloidal systems containing crystalline structures unlike any seen on Earth and spherical flames burning around fuel droplets. Also observed was a uniform dispersion of tin particles in a liquid melt, instead of rising to the top as would happen in Earth’s gravity. 

So what? By understanding the fundamentals of combustion and surface tension, we may make more efficient combustion engines; better portable medical diagnostics; stronger, lighter alloys; medicines with longer shelf-life, and buildings that are more resistant to earthquakes.

Findings from physical science research on station may improve the understanding of material properties. This information could potentially revolutionize development of new and improved products for use in everything from automobiles to airplanes to spacecraft.

For more information on space station research, follow @ISS_Research on Twitter!

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Pervasive Pollution: Nurdles (Part 1)

Meet the Nurdles. They may be tiny, cute, and look like a bunch of cartoon characters, but don’t be fooled: these little guys are plotting ocean domination.

Nurdles are some of the planet’s most pervasive pollutants, found in lakes, rivers, and oceans across the globe. The tiny factory-made pellets form the raw material for every plastic product we use, and each year, billions of pounds of nurdles are produced, melted, and molded into toys, bottles, buttons, bags, pens, shoes, toothbrushes, and beads. They. Are. Everywhere. 

But their real advantage in the quest for ocean domination is their incredible endurance—which allows them to persist in an environment for generations, because their artificial makeup makes them unable to biodegrade.

So, just as long as they don’t get into the environment, we have nothing to worry about, right?

The problem is, nurdles have a crafty way of doing exactly this. Produced in several countries, and shipped to plastics manufacturing plants the world over, nurdles often escape during the production process, carried by run-off to the coast, or during shipping when they’re mistakenly tipped into the waves.

And that’s just the beginning. Look out for more on these pervasive pollutants later this week, or check out the TED-Ed Lesson The nurdles’ quest for ocean domination - Kim Preshoff

Animation by Reflective Films

Full story here. And here’s our rhyming round-up of other ancient, giant versions of modern mammals:

Image credit: Mauricio Antón/Journla of Systematic Palaeontology

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