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Fly to Another Star Within 30 Years: Plans In the Works
Can a miniature spacecraft reach Alpha Centauri in 30 years ? An ambitious new project is aiming to make interstellar travel a reality within just three decades. Launched by billionaire Yuri Milner and supported by Professor Stephen Hawking and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the $100 million project aims to send miniature spacecraft the size of a computer chip across trillions … Continue reading
Superbugs Are on To Kill 10 Million People by 2050 If Things Don’t Change—Fast
Via (Quartz) In November of 2015, scientists in southeastern China were combing through bacterial samples collected from hospitals in the Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces when they discovered something that would immediately grab the attention of the entire medical community. Many of the bacteria collected were carrying a new gene called MCR-1. It’s an innocuous-sounding name for a sequence of DNA … Continue reading
Secret Planet Beyond Neptune: 5 Things You Didn’t Know
The elusive ninth planet in our solar system has not shown itself to scientist just yet, but as more evidence is compiled, the possibility is increasing. Using their estimates, astrophysicists were able to paint a general picture of what this mysterious rock beyond Neptune may look like. Here are five things about it that you may not have known. 1. … Continue reading
Abundance of RNA in Space Could Offer Fresh Clues about Start of Life: Research
Scientists have been puzzled if the molecular building blocks of life developed here on the planet or whether space objects, such as meteorites and comets, brought them. A research team conducted a scientific experiment where they found that an artificial comet ice contained ribose and other factors that are necessary to start life on a planetary body. Ribose and some … Continue reading
Is the Universe a Sophisticated Simulation? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Other Scientists Discuss the Possibility
Via Ancient-code Although we perceive the universe as being something enormous and real, in recent years, a growing number of researchers have considered the possibility that everything we perceive as reality, could in fact turn out to be a sophisticated simulation. A group of distinguished scientists –including Neil deGrasse Tyson; Lisa Randall, theoretical physics at Harvard University; Max Tegmark, a … Continue reading
A History of Teleportation
By Arnold Isen via Wake Up World – April, 2016 Teleportation is not what you think. While commonly seen as an advanced futuristic technology capable of moving people across great distances instantaneously, teleportation may have been happening for millions of years without any technology involved. Of course, the existence of anything in nature, including objects moving faster than light or … Continue reading
Our DNA Less ‘Human’ Than Scientists Previously Thought: Research
NEW YORK: A significant portion of what we think of as our “human” DNA actually came from viruses, and a new discovery suggests that our DNA is even less human than scientists previously thought. Nineteen new pieces of non-human DNA — left by viruses that first infected our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago — have just been found, … Continue reading
Is Mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ Tugging on NASA Saturn Probe?
The hunt is on to find “Planet Nine” — a large undiscovered world, perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth and four times its size — that scientists think could be lurking in the outer solar system. After Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two planetary scientists from the California Institute of Technology, presented evidence for its existence this January, other … Continue reading
8 ‘Potentially Hazardous Asteroids’ Near Earth Discovered by NASA
Eight new asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth were spotted by NASA’s asteroid-hunter among 439 other objects rotating around our planet, according to a report newly released by the space agency. NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) telescope, which made a comeback in 2013 after going into hibernation mode in 2011, has come up with a second … Continue reading
Samsung Patents Contact Lenses With Display and Camera: Total Surveillance
Editor’s Note: At first glance it may seem fantastic, and from a pure technology standpoint it IS, but then on the other side of things, if the phones that they make are already spying on you then what about this.. Good luck putting a piece of tape over this one. South Korean company Samsung has patented a Google Glass killer, … Continue reading
