72 New Galaxies Discovered by ESO Astronomers
The new galaxies date back 13 billion years to a time shortly after the formation of the universe. The discovery was made using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. The galaxies were situated in a patch of sky previously investigated by the Hubble Space Telescope and were identified … Continue reading
Bacteria ‘That Was’t There Before’ Found on Hull of ISS, According to Russian Cosmonaut
This is most fascinating indeed. Alien or not, if alive, it is able to survive in space. Wouldn’t that tell us a lot about the “transfer” of life/bacteria throughout the cosmos.. via RT: Living bacteria were found on the surface of the International Space Station (ISS), and they might have extraterrestrial origins, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov said. The microorganisms will … Continue reading
Will We Ever be able to Know If Our Universe is a Simulation?
Are we living in a simulation? A flurry of headlines says no: we need no longer worry about our lives being mere software spawned by a highly advanced supercomputer. These stories stem from a recent Science Advances paper about simulating quantum physics. One science magazine extrapolated from this to suggest that storing information about just a few hundred electrons needs a computer memory made up … Continue reading
Clone Cloned to Study Possible Health Issues
An international team of researchers have re-cloned the first dog to ever be cloned, to basically find out if genetically identical animals will suffer the same fate. The scientists from Seoul National University, Michigan State University and the University of Illinois had their paper on the monumental re-cloning published in the journal Scientific Reports. The group said they duplicated the … Continue reading
Canadian Lake Hints at Possible Life on Mars
The lake is made up of lots of smaller pools. The lake has been described as ‘a chunk of Mars [that] has somehow broken off and travelled 33 million miles’. Situated in British Columbia, the aptly named Spotted Lake is a large body of water with hundreds of smaller pools inside it which, according to local folklore, are said to … Continue reading
No More Hair Loss and Bald Heads?
Scientists have made a breakthrough that could eventually help lead to a cure for baldness. They discovered that in animals individual hairs communicate with each other to form an even covering all over the body, vital for furry creatures to survive in different climates. But, in humans, that signalling pathway appears to break down in certain areas, such as the … Continue reading
First Recorded Interstellar Asteroid ‘Oumuamua Looks Like Nothing Observed Before
For the first time ever astronomers have studied an asteroid that has entered the Solar System from interstellar space. Observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other observatories around the world show that this unique object was traveling through space for millions of years before its chance encounter with our star system. It appears to be a dark, … Continue reading
Skull Discovered in China Could Re-write Our Understanding of the Theory of Human Evolution
A skull found in China could re-write our entire understanding of human evolution. That’s according to scientists who have examined the important, ancient head and say that it proves the existing theory of how humans came to be is wrong. Most anthropologists believe that our species came about in Africa around 200,000 years ago – and that one group left … Continue reading
This Virtual Reality Machine Blows Your Mind Without You Taking Psychedelic Drugs
VR tech had to branch out into the world of psychedelics sooner or later. A hallucination machine developed by a British university makes it possible to trip out without taking illegal drugs. Instead of experimenting with LSD and magic mushrooms, researchers at Sussex University’s Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science have chosen a safer option that puts out more reliable data … Continue reading
Groundbreaking Smell Diagnostics: Breath Tests Could Detect up to 17 Diseases
Smell may be the key to a future of more accurate, cheaper, non-invasive diagnostics tests for everything from malaria to cancer to Parkinson’s disease. Scientists in Israel are working on a breath test that they say can detect as many as 17 diseases. Meanwhile, a US-based team is testing their device for identifying the breath signature of malaria in Malawi … Continue reading
