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Pluto and Neptune Actually Swap Places Every 248 Years
Amazing! via curiosity: Pluto has had a rough time of it. Sure, the Earth is full of people wearing novelty T-shirts proclaiming their loyalty to what used to be called the smallest planet, but it doesn’t change the fact that scientists won’t let it back in the planet club. At least it got a couple years of being the farthest … Continue reading
Highly Realistic Female AI News Anchor Unveiled by Chinese News Agency
These two AI news anchors are incredible pieces of technology! See for yourself! via RT: Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has unveiled “the world’s first female AI news anchor.” The computer-generated journo will team up with Xinhua’s existing male AI anchors at an upcoming series of political meetings in China. The virtual reporter, named Xin Xiaomeng, was developed by Xinhua, … Continue reading
Asteroids are Stronger and Harder to Shatter than Previously Thought
As each day goes by it seems that we are seeing an increase in meteor fireballs entering our atmosphere. Could it be an indication that we could soon see a large and hazardous object headed our way. It’s no secret that since the Chelyabinsk meteor incident, a superbolide that entered Earth’s atmosphere over Russia on 15 February 2013 and lit … Continue reading
Humans Could Eventually Have Unaided Night Vision via Eye Injections of Nanoparticles
Scientists have successfully given mice the ability to see in near-infrared by injecting nanoparticles in to their eyes. The research, which was conducted by a team lead by Tian Xue from the University of Science and Technology of China and Gang Han from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, involved injecting nanoparticles in to the eyes of laboratory mice which … Continue reading
Five Things AI Started Doing All on its Own That Will Creep You Out
Artificial intelligence has been the bogeyman of science fiction since before it even existed for real. But while humanoid robots are still very much a work in progress, AI research keeps making big advances quietly behind the scenes. And it’s absolutely starting to get weird. 5. An AI Learned To Half-Ass Its Work, Then Lie About It It’s nice to … Continue reading
Scientist Discover a New Moon in Our Solar System
Neptune had a previous moon count of 13, but scientists have found yet another bringing the count now to 14. via unexplained-mysteries: Scientists have successfully identified an entirely new moon in orbit around the gas giant Neptune. Named Hippocamp after a sea creature of Greek mythology, the new moon was discovered in images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope using … Continue reading
Farout Makes Way for FarFarOut, New Furthest Object in Our Solar System Has Been Discovered
The universe has a way of surprising even its most ardent observers. Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., was scheduled to give a lecture on what was the furthest known object in the solar system. And then, just a day before his scheduled talk, he discovered an even further one. “This is hot … Continue reading
Scientist Find Tracks of Earliest Mobile Organism Dating Back 2.1 Billion Years
This looks on a little similar to something that was found on Mars (Weird Tube-Like Structures Spotted on Mars by Curiosity Rover) via Unexplained-Mysteries: Scientists have identified the fossilized tracks of a worm-like organism that lived 2.1 billion years ago. The first single-celled organisms that lived on our planet were believed to have arisen in the Earth’s oceans around four … Continue reading
Giant Asteroid Could Devastate Cities on Earth, Turn Them to Powder
“…first predicted collision date is just 10 years from now.” via Sputniknews: Princeton University graduate, physicist Jay Melosh’s golden tips on how to avoid an asteroid collision with our planet and the thousands of deaths that that would entail have emerged only now, with the closest predicted year when it may happen being 2029. Yet, NASA came to believe several … Continue reading
Our Moon Lies INSIDE Earth’s Atmosphere as Revealed by Previously Unexamined Data
The atmosphere of Earth is far larger than previously thought, it even extends far beyond the moon, scientists revealed! via RT: The amazing discovery was made thanks to data that has been sitting unexamined for over 20 years. We now know that the atmosphere surrounding our planet stretches 630,000km (391,464 miles) away and is 50 times the diameter of Earth, … Continue reading
