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A Second Rectangular Iceberg Recorded by NASA
What’s really going on though, surely if these were normal it would have been documented a very long time ago, now there this is the second one! via unexplained-mysteries: Another intriguingly geometric iceberg has been spotted in Antarctica during an Operation IceBridge aerial survey. The iceberg, just like the last one, was captured on camera off the Larsen C ice … Continue reading
Experimental Drug Cocktail Almost Doubles Lifespan in Animals Test Subjects
Pioneering research into anti-ageing mechanisms in animals has almost doubled the lifespan of the test subjects used in the experiments. A team of scientists in Singapore tried experimental combinations of different compounds on the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, and found that cocktails made up of already existing drugs could both slow the effects of ageing and significantly boost the animals’ longevity. “We … Continue reading
Mars’ Salty Water Oxygen Level Likely High Enough to Support Life
Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth billions of years ago, researchers reported Monday. In some locations, the amount of oxygen available could even keep alive a primitive, multicellular animal such as a sponge, they reported in the journal Nature Geosciences. “We discovered that brines”-water … Continue reading
Report Calls for NASA To “Ramp Up” Its Efforts To Find Alien Life
A new report says that NASA should rethink its search for alien life, and hunt not just for life as we know it – but life as we don’t know it, too. Released by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, the report – mandated by Congress – focused on astrobiology, and the search for life elsewhere in the … Continue reading
An Unexpected Echo of Space-Time Suggests a New Theory of Reality
The discovery of gravitational waves was the crowning glory of Einstein’s relativity. They might now have provided the first hint of something to scupper it. A LONG time ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes collided. We know this because more than a billion years later, on the morning of 14 September 2015, we felt it: in the world’s … Continue reading
Asteroid 2018 UA Made the Fourth-Closest Pass by Earth on Record
A space rock cruised over us, coming even closer than most communications satellites. An asteroid roughly the size of a pickup truck came within 10,000 miles of our heads Friday morning and then continued on its way without incident. Only three observed asteroids have come closer to our planet, according to NASA records that date all the way back to … Continue reading
Hawking Essays Reveal Dark Prediction: Wealthy Could Create ‘Superhuman Race’ this Century
A collection of newly published essays written by Stephen Hawking before his death reveal the iconic physicist believed wealthy people could create a new race of “superhumans” by editing their children’s DNA. The collection of articles and essays, which has appeared in part in the Sunday Times, will be published in their entirety as a book called: ‘Brief Answers to … Continue reading
Mystery Paralysis Spreading in Children Has US Health Officials Stumped
U.S. health officials on Tuesday reported a jump in cases of a rare paralyzing illness in children, and said it seems to be following an every-other-year pattern. At least 62 cases have been confirmed in 22 states this year, and at least 65 additional illnesses in those states are being investigated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … Continue reading
Does ‘Random’ Exist or Is There an Underlying Order to Everything?
The Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) wrote in “Ethics I”: “Nothing in Nature is random. … A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.” In modern physics, certain quantum processes are deemed fundamentally random. “As we currently understand it, quantum randomness is true and absolute randomness,” said theoretical physicist York Dobyns in an email to the Epoch … Continue reading
Life on Earth Came From Deep Space, Study Claims
Life may well be scattered all throughout our universe but given its massive size and the fact that it continues to expand at an astronomical rate, meaning everything is speeding away from each other, further amplifies the difficulty of finding other life. But no one can say for sure that they may not have already found us but prefer to … Continue reading
