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Water discovered on Neptune-sized planet outside our solar system

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Science Water discovered on Neptune-sized planet outside our solar system

Being able to find water may make it easier to find life

By Elizabeth Lopatto on September 24, 2014 01:54 pm @VergeScience 29 Don't miss stories follow The Verge Like Follow Subscribe Follow (Thomas Berg) Share on Facebook View the original article here

Water discovered on Neptune-sized planet outside our solar system

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Physicists create tractor beam made of water

Dr Punzmann and Professor Shats testing the tractor beam. ANU/Stuart Hay

A surprising new technique created by a team of physicists led by Professor Michael Shats at the Australian National University reveals that simple wave generators can be used to move floating objects in a number of directions -- even against the waves.

"We have figured out a way of creating waves that can force a floating object to move against the direction of the wave," said Dr Horst Punzmann from the Research School of Physics and Engineering. "No one could have guessed this result."

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The technique allows the researchers to finely control objects floating in the water. Using ping pong balls, the team figured out the size and frequency of the waves required to move the object in the desired direction.

It is not, though, the waves themselves that are responsible for the movement. Rather, according to advanced particle tracking tools developed by team members Dr Nicolas Francois and Dr Hua Xia, the waves generate currents on the water's surface, which in turn move the balls.

"We found that above a certain height, these complex three-dimensional waves generate flow patterns on the surface of the water," said Professor Shats. "The tractor beam is just one of the patterns, they can be inward flows, outward flows, or vortices."

Anyone can replicate these experiments in a bathtub, but no mathematical theory yet exists that can explain them, Dr Punzmann said.

The full research can be found online in the journal Nature Physics.

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This 'Lawn Dude' is trying to get Californians to conserve water

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Meet Lawn Dude. He's a spunky ball of green turf that hopes to get Californians to conserve water as the state struggles through a persistent three-year drought. And, really, what better way to rally Americans around a cause than an adorable mascot?

Lawn Dude is being plastered over billboards in Southern California, a region that has been particularly hard hit by the drought. "I only drink 2 days a week," reads one of the ads, which features a sunglasses-wearing Lawn Dude holding a martini. Another reads, "Don't hose me man!"

And, of course, Lawn Dude has a Twitter account too.

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