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Prime Numbers Surprisingly Share a Pattern With Atom Distribution in Crystals
Often known as “the building blocks of mathematics,” prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians for centuries due to their highly unpredictable and seemingly random nature. However, a team of researchers at Princeton University have recently discovered a strange pattern in the primes’ chaos. Their novel modelling techniques revealed a surprising similarity between primes and certain naturally occurring crystalline materials, a similarity … Continue reading
Collision with a Dwarf Planet May Explain Why Our Moon is So Strange Looking
The far side of the moon is weirder than we previously thought and new research indicates that, in the distant past, the moon could have faced off against an unknown object in a massive collision that changed its face. On the near side that faces Earth, we can see large dark areas of volcanic basalt dotting the lunar landscape. Meanwhile, … Continue reading
Simulation Shows Terrifying Effects of Large Asteroid Impact
Terrifying video shows a simulation of an asteroid of 500 km diameter colliding with Earth! Earth was born as a result of repeated asteroid collisions, the moon was created by a single giant impact event. Then, Earth’s size attracted huge meteorites, which slammed into it, causing super-high-temperature rock vapour to cover the entire surface and evaporate all ocean water. The … Continue reading
Gas that Causes Mountains to Breathe Fire is Appearing Around the World
Ancient recipe for deep-earth version of photosynthesis is more common than previously known, scientists find At the top of a mountain in southwest Turkey, the ground spits fire. Known as the Flames of Chimaera, they have burned for millenniums. Local myth long held that these fires were the breath of a monster – part goat, part snake, part lion. Today … Continue reading
Should We Seed Other Worlds the With ‘Earth Brand’ Life?
The search for what we would deem to be “habitable” worlds orbiting other stars has reached a crossroads in recent years. As our technology and techniques improve, we’ve been able to identify small rocky worlds orbiting within other stars’ “habitable zones.” So far, we can measure an exoplanet’s mass, understand its physical size, even calculate its average density, revealing whether … Continue reading
Asteroid ‘Apophis’ to Make Very Close Pass of Earth in 2029
While it is very unlikely that Apophis will collide with Earth, it’s not completely impossible! via unexplained-mysteries: NASA is making preparations to study a large asteroid that is expected to pass within 19,000 miles of Earth. Named ominously after the Egyptian god of chaos, Apophis measures 340 meters across and was first spotted by astronomers at the Kitt Peak National … Continue reading
New ‘Mind Reading’ Technology Turns Thoughts to Speech
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco have developed tech that will allow entire spoken sentences to be generated based on an individual’s brain activity using ! The device consists of an electrode implant that is placed inside the brain to pick up the electrical signals associated with the movements of the lips, tongue and lower jaw. via Unexplained-Mysteries … Continue reading
China to Build Massive 20 Mile Diameter Particle Collider, Five Times More Powerful Than LHC
When a series of collisions beneath the French-Swiss border seven years ago confirmed the existence of an elementary particle, it set off a chain reaction in the world of Chinese physicist Wang Yifang. The subatomic crashes in the Large Hadron Collider had verified the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. The confirmation of the “God particle” resolved a number of … Continue reading
Aliens of the Deep Sea – The Most Intelligent Animal on Earth?
How has the octopus become so intelligent and capable of thinking in the abstract? Watch fascinating and often hilarious experiments to see just how smart they are. After this video, you’ll never think about the octopus the same. In Aliens of the Deep Sea we get to see how octopuses behave in the wild too. Off the coast of Vancouver … Continue reading
Russian Defense Magazine Reveals Paranormal Soldiers and Military Dolphin Telepathy
An article in the official magazine of Russia’s Defense Ministry has claimed that the country’s military works in tandem with psychics, employs paranormal tactics to aid soldiers and has used dolphins in telepathy experiments. A piece in the magazine Army Collection headlined “Super Soldier for the Wars of The Future” described how the military has conducted strange experiments, such as … Continue reading
