AFP/AFP/Getty Images The Belgian Senate has extended its euthanasia law to cover terminally-ill children. Belgium has voted to extend euthanasia laws to cover children. The Belgian Senate backed the plan on Friday, which means the controversial law will now cover terminally-ill children. RELATED: EUTHANASIA BAN UPHELD BY BRITISH APPEALS COURT It means Belgium is the first country in the world ...
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When it launches in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will let us see deeper into the universe than ever before. Its enormous eye is centered around 18 octagonal mirrors which assemble to form the largest telescope mirror ever built, but someday even the James Webb Telescope (formerly the Next-Gen Space Telescope) will outlive its usefulness — and then what ...
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Impurities in diamonds can not only give them color, they can also turn diamonds into precise sensors of magnetic field and temperature. When the impurity happens to be a nitrogen atom, the crystal structure is deformed in such a way that a gap or defect, known as a nitrogen vacancy-center (NVC), is created. Electrons that are trapped in the centers ...
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