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Study Suggests Our Universe May Be 2 Billion Years Younger
The universe is looking younger every day, it seems. New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even younger than suggested by two other calculations published this year that trimmed hundreds of millions of years from the age of the cosmos. The huge swings in scientists’ estimates — even this new … Continue reading
Quantum Physicists Successfully Teleport a Qutrit for the Very First Time
Quantum teleportation has been a term related to qubits for the longest time and recently, researchers have successfully teleported ‘qutrits’. The research published on American Physical Society is a major breakthrough that will propel the quantum computation prowess to incredibly faster speeds. Scientists have been able to teleport qubits, Quantum Bits of information that have binary states – 0 or … Continue reading
Two Large Asteroids to Pass Near Earth This Weekend According to NASA
The two celestial bodies will be closest to Earth late Friday and early Saturday, in US Eastern Daylight Time, the US space agency revealed. Two large chunks of space rock will pass very close to Earth this weekend Friday night, NASA reported earlier this week. The two asteroids – named 2010 C01 and 2000 QW7 – have been documented in … Continue reading
Extraterrestrial Mineral Discovered Inside Meteorite
Scientists have discovered an exotic alien mineral that does not occur naturally anywhere on Earth. The discovery was made following a new analysis of the Wedderburn meteorite – a ‘lemon-sized’ space rock that was found back in 1951 near Wedderburn in Victoria, Australia. Scientists at the California Institute of Technology used an electron-beam microscope and electron probe to determine the … Continue reading
2 Giant Blobs at the Core of our Galaxy are Emitting Radiation, Unknown How They Got There
In 2010, astronomers working with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope announced the discovery of two giant blobs. These blobs were centered on the core of the Milky Way galaxy, but they extended above and below the plane of our galactic home for over 25,000 light-years. Their origins are still a mystery, but however they got there, they are emitting copious … Continue reading
All Comets May Have a Single Cosmic Source Within Our Solar System
American and European scientists are testing a surprising theory that all comets in our solar system come from a single point in space time, right when planets were still forming around our newly-born sun. The scientists used chemical models in a small scale survey of some 14 well-known comets to see if their composition could point to a particular point … Continue reading
Astronomers Find Water Vapor on Extrasolar Planet
Water vapor has been identified on what is being hailed as the most habitable exoplanet found to date. In an announcement earlier today, astronomers from University College London revealed the discovery of water vapor in the atmosphere of a ‘super-Earth’ planet 110 light years away. Known simply as K2-18b, this distant world is twice the size of our own planet, … Continue reading
Gel Invented that Makes Teeth Repair Themselves, Could Spell the End of Fillings
Tooth enamel can now be made to repair itself by applying a special gel. The product could save people from developing cavities that require dental fillings. Enamel is the hard, protective layer on the outside of teeth. It can be worn down by mouth acid and repeated chewing, leading to cavities that have to be plugged with fillings to prevent … Continue reading
Ancient Worm Fossil Discovery Rolls Back Origins of Animal Life
More than half a billion years ago, a strange, worm-like creature died as it crawled across the muddy sea floor. Both the organism and the trail it left lay undisturbed for so long that they fossilized. Now, they are helping to revise our understanding of when and how animals evolved. The fossil, which formed some time between 551 million and … Continue reading
Mysterious Radio Burst Picked up by China’s Radio Telescope
Is someone or something trying to contact earth? China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) has detected a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) — mysterious radio signals from outer space — for the first time, Science and Technology Daily reported. Scientists on the FAST project with the National Astronomical Observatories of China, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed … Continue reading
