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Liquid Ocean Discovered on Pluto
The enigmatic dwarf planet has been throwing up no shortage of surprises over the last few years. When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft performed a flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, it found, not a barren wasteland, but a world filled with a bewildering array of complex and varied surface features. Now scientists in Japan have determined that Sputnik Planitia … Continue reading
Mars Was Once Blue and a “Water World” Like Earth, Claims Professor
The red planet is considered by the collaborating authors as the likeliest place for life to have evolved, as they claim in their book, called Planets, coming out next week. A new BBC2 series to be screened at the end of this month is set to reveal claims by Professor Brian Cox that the Earth could once have had three … Continue reading
Scientists Create Organism with Synthetic DNA
The live, lab-made microbe, which has a fully synthetic DNA code, is the first of its kind ever created. The breakthrough was made by researchers at the laboratory of molecular biology at Cambridge University who redesigned the DNA of E Coli – a commonly found strain of bacteria. The work involved making up to 18,000 edits to the genome, then … Continue reading
Wandering Earth: Could We Move Our Planet ?
Would it really be possible to physically move our entire planet to a different orbit using giant thrusters? In the Chinese science fiction movie ‘The Wandering Earth’, humanity attempts to avoid a collision with Jupiter by using thrusters to move our planet out of the way. But just how feasible is this idea ? Space systems engineer Matteo Ceriotti lays … Continue reading
Giant ‘Jars of the Dead’ Found in Laos
Does this discovery lend support to the legends of giants that existed on earth in the long ago past? Give these a read after you’ve read the article below… Ancient Cultures from Around the World Spoke of Giants 2,000-Year-Old ‘Book Of Giants’ Describes How the Nephilim Were Destroyed Letter Revealed Ancient Giants Buried in Alaska Mythical ‘City of Giants’ in … Continue reading
Astronomers Have Found a Test to Narrow Down What Existed Before The Big Bang
Today our middle-aged Universe looks eerily smooth. Too smooth, in fact. While a rapid growth spurt in space-time would explain what we see, science needs more than nice ideas. It needs evidence that whittles away contending arguments. We might finally know where to look for some. A team of physicists from the Centre for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) … Continue reading
Deepest Ever Undersea Depth Achieved
American explorer Victor Vescovo has broken the world record by reaching a depth of nearly 7 miles. The 53-year-old made several trips to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean as part of an ambitious mission to chart the deepest parts of the sea. Sealed within a submersible vehicle known as The Limiting Factor, Vescovo succeeded … 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
Study Names New Cradle of Human Civilisation
Having started with pearl millets last year, the same research group has continued their exciting journey of examining the roots of plant domestication on the African continent, but this time looking into the genomes of a wealth of wild and cultivated yams, an African staple vegetable. Having investigated the domestication of African yams, a key crop in early African agriculture … Continue reading
Experiment Conducted Aboard the Space Station Could Hint at a Cure to Aging
Like every other living creature on the planet, our bodies are slaves to the endless march of time. There’s nothing we can to do stop it — at least not yet — and eventually we’ll fall apart just like everything that has come before us. But what if we didn’t? What if scientists could slow down, or even prevent the … Continue reading
