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Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Apocalypse and 1 Person is to Blame
Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight on Thursday amid increasing worries over nuclear weapons and climate change. Each year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit that sets the clock, decides whether the events of the previous year pushed humanity closer or further from destruction. The symbolic clock is now two-and-a-half minutes from midnight, the closest it’s been to … Continue reading
Strange that Most People Are Right Handed? Researchers Found Interesting Link From Our Ancestors
We’ve got two perfectly good hands attached to two perfectly good arms, so why do most people prefer to use one over the other for common tasks? It is thought that handedness have an important role in human growth, with an early study on the earliest indication of right-handedness in the fossil record coming off light on when and why … Continue reading
New Era of Healthcare? Scientists Have Developed a Tool that Lets Smartphones Analyze DNA
The discovery that all life is underpinned by a genetic code has changed our understanding of everything in biology. And, yet, given that DNA is thousands of times smaller than a human hair, most of the applications that involve its use have remained restricted to sophisticated labs. No longer. Over the past decade, miniaturization of computers and lab equipment has … Continue reading
Scientists Create First “Stable” Semisynthetic Organism
U.S. scientists on Monday announced the development of the “first” stable semisynthetic organism, an advancement that may have major implications for medicine and even pave the way for the creation of new life forms. “We’ve made this semisynthetic organism more life-like,” senior author Floyd Romesberg, professor of the Scripps Research Institute, said in a statement. All life on Earth is … Continue reading
Moon Villages to Be Established ‘Rather Soon’ Claims European Space Chief
The European Space Agency (ESA) director called a human colony on the Moon ‘more or less fact’ in a Wednesday press conference in Paris due to the enormous amount of work being poured into a Moon village by numerous space agencies. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, who became the ESA director-general in 2015, foresees that a Moon base is inevitable after the International … Continue reading
WATCH: Visit Scenic Pluto: NASA Puts Out Landing Simulation Video
If Pluto’s temperatures of -240°C, frozen nitrogen surface, and 7.5-billion kilometer travel distance do not turn you off from taking your next vacation there, then NASA’s new video simulating a landing on the dwarf planet may be of interest to you. To commemorate 11 years since the launch of its New Horizons spacecraft, NASA combined 100 images taken by the … Continue reading
Sitting Down for Hours a Day Speeds up Ageing Based on New Research
People should aim to stand up every 20 minutes, according to Age UK Elderly people who spend most of their time sitting down age significantly quicker than more active contemporaries, according to new research. A study of 1,500 pensioners found those who kept to a sedentary position for ten hours or more a day and who did less than 40 … Continue reading
Hi-tech Pods that Allow Human Beings to Hibernate For Long-Distance Space Travel are About to Become a Reality
On Oct. 7, 2006, Mitsutaka Uchikoshi left a barbecue on Mt. Rokko in western Japan, deciding to walk down the mountain rather than taking a cable car with his friends. He lost his way, slipped, broke his pelvis and, with nobody around to help, eventually lost consciousness. Twenty-four days later, a passing climber found Uchikoshi. His body temperature had fallen … Continue reading
A New ‘Flesh-Eating Parasite’ Relative Has Been Discovered in Australia
A new study has discovered a new species of parasite living in Australia, which shares an evolutionary ancestor to a terrifying group of ‘flesh-eating’ parasites. The new parasite – Zelonia australiensis has recently been discovered in an Australian black fly species that bites mammals – including humans. Joel Barratt, a parasite expert at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and … Continue reading
Cure? Elephant Protein That Kills Cancer Successfully Synthesized by Scientists
A team of scientists led by Dr. Joshua Schiffman has successfully synthesized an elephant protein that, in the lab, fights cancer with outstanding effectiveness. Dr. Joshua Schiffman, a physician and scientist with the Huntsman Cancer Institute, believes that large mammals, such as elephants and whales, are the key to curing cancer. The idea behind his research is simple: if a … Continue reading
