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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
A Black Hole Jet Wobbles Due To Space-Time Being Dragged Around It
An international team of researchers has discovered a curious feature of the jet of material produced by V404 Cygni, a stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. The jet wobbles in periods that can be as short as a few minutes. This happens because the black hole’s gravity is dragging space-time around the jet. As reported in Nature, such a … Continue reading
In Order to Prevent Robot Apocalypse We Must Study Machine ‘Behavior’
Experts have been warning us about potential dangers associated with artificial intelligence for quite some time. But is it too late to do anything about the impending rise of the machines? Once the stuff of far-fetched dystopian science fiction, the idea of robot overlords taking over the world at some point now seems inevitable. The late Dr. Stephen Hawking issued … Continue reading
Should We Seed Other Worlds the With ‘Earth Brand’ Life?
The search for what we would deem to be “habitable” worlds orbiting other stars has reached a crossroads in recent years. As our technology and techniques improve, we’ve been able to identify small rocky worlds orbiting within other stars’ “habitable zones.” So far, we can measure an exoplanet’s mass, understand its physical size, even calculate its average density, revealing whether … Continue reading
WiFi May Interact with Signaling Pathways in the Brain, Causing Irreversible Damage
The effects of repeated WiFi exposure on human health have been widely debated. A recent study reviewed evidence from 23 controlled scientific studies which investigated the health effects of WiFi on animals, human cell lines, and humans to determine once and for all, whether WiFi has a detrimental effect on human health. WiFi or a wireless network consists of an … Continue reading
Asteroid ‘Apophis’ to Make Very Close Pass of Earth in 2029
While it is very unlikely that Apophis will collide with Earth, it’s not completely impossible! via unexplained-mysteries: NASA is making preparations to study a large asteroid that is expected to pass within 19,000 miles of Earth. Named ominously after the Egyptian god of chaos, Apophis measures 340 meters across and was first spotted by astronomers at the Kitt Peak National … Continue reading
