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Odds of One in 500 for Human Extinction Next year, Claimed by Mathematician
A mathematician at the University of Barcelona has estimated there is a 13 per cent chance humanity will fail to see out the 21st Century Dr Fergus Simpson, a mathematician at the University of Barcelona’s Institute of Cosmos Sciences, said there was a 0.2 per cent chance of a “global catastrophe” occurring in any given year over the course of … Continue reading
‘Super-Earth’ DISCOVERED, Chances of Finding Aliens Drastically Increased
A PLANET with similarities to Earth but FIVE times the size has been discovered relatively close by. Heralded as a ‘super-Earth’, the giant celestial body is some 33 light years away and orbits a red-dwarf star. The exoplanet – meaning it is outside of our solar system – has been scientifically dubbed GJ 536 b and has a mass roughly … Continue reading
Collision With a Massive Comet Will Be an Extinction Level Event Within 20 Years Claims Author
By Graham Hancock Extinction Level Event? Within the next 20 years, Earth faces a collision with the remnants of a comet big enough to end all life as we know it, according to the author of Magicians of the Gods Graham Hancock He claims the following: Within 20 years a comet big enough to end life as we know it … Continue reading
Scientists From The National Institutes of Health Have Identified Antibody That Neutralizes 98% Of HIV Strains
An antibody from an HIV-infected person has successfully neutralized 98 percent of HIV isolates tested, including the lion’s share of strains resistant to other antibodies of the same class, US scientists have found. The striking efficiency of the powerful antibody, named N6, makes it an ideal candidate for further research to treat or prevent HIV infection, scientists from the National … Continue reading
Bizarre Experiment: Lasers and Anti-Lasers Square Off
The Department of Energy occasionally gets up to some spooky, fringe science. Heavily redacted documents obtained through the Freedom of Information act recently confirmed that the DOE has conducted research on parallel universes and human test subjects, lending credence to some of the more out-there government research conspiracy theories. Just this week, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley … Continue reading
Space Weather Might be to Blame for Frustrating GPS Screw-Ups
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington recently explained why wonky GPS directions are sometimes caused by solar wind, the same thing responsible for the Northern Lights. Making a wrong turn thanks to inept GPS directions is one of the most infuriating experiences while driving, but scientists at the University of Texas at Arlington reassure us that these screw-ups … Continue reading
What Affect Will Tonight’s Supermoon Have On Human Behavior?
Do not be alarmed if you find yourself struggling to fall asleep tonight, for there could be a perfectly scientific reason for your insomnia. Hovering outside your window will be the biggest and brightest moon the planet has seen since January 1948 – a scientific phenomenon that takes place only when a full moon coincides with the moon being the … Continue reading
Would You Use Time Travel to Kill Baby Hitler?
You don’t want to mess this one up. It’s the philosophical question that keeps cropping up – if you could travel back in time, would you kill baby Hitler? Okay, let’s be honest, the first thing you’d do is go and see the dinosaurs, but would killing one of history’s worst babies be the second thing? Of course, at first … Continue reading
What Would a Parallel Universe Even Look Like?
If you consider that the Milky Way galaxy has a radius of 100,000 light-years (1 light-year is 9.5 trillion km), and it’s estimated that there are 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the Universe, we’re living in an unfathomably gigantic place. But what if this was just a fraction of what’s truly out there? What if our Universe is just … Continue reading
Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube in Under One Second
The robot was ridiculously fast. German technology company Infineon has broken the world record by solving the puzzle in 0.637 seconds. The quintessentially 80s brain-teaser, which was invented by Hungarian Erno Rubik, has recently enjoyed something of a resurgence due to speedcubing – a competitive sport in which human (or robot) contestants battle it out to solve the puzzle in … Continue reading
