Understanding the expansion of the universe is one of physicists and astronomers' priority. What causes the accelerating expansion of our universe is one of science's greatest mysteries. Now, physicists say they might have found a way to explain this puzzling phenomenon. Nearly two decades ago, in 1...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 15:22
- By Daniel K. Henry
A powerful space telescope orbiting Earth has spied on two galaxies in the midst of a cosmic close call 500 million light-years away. The Hubble Space Telescope spotted two galaxies — collectively called IRAS 06076-2139 — speeding past one another at about 1.2 million miles per hour, accor...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 08:26
- By Eric Beaudoin
In about a billion years time, the sun’s increasing brightness will blast the Earth to the point that all complex life forms will die. The oceans will dwindle away until there are only two ponds left at the Earth’s poles – which become the last havens of life on our planet. That cheery pr...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 08:13
- By Anna K. Sasaki
Why do the other planets, like Venus (shown above) have a different atmosphere than Earth? Credit: ESA Here on Earth, we tend to take our atmosphere for granted, and not without reason. Our atmosphere has a lovely mix of nitrogen and oxygen (78% and 21% respectively) with trace amounts of water vapo...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 04:43
- By Linda Manly
An illustration showing changes in the Van Allen Belts as a "space tsunami" of solar radiation batters Earth's magnetic field. The toll taken by extreme weather here on Earth gets most of the attention, but a new discovery by Edmonton scientists is highlighting the impa...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 02:07
- By Steven Ryan
A new book claims almost half of us have some kind of behavioural addiction involving screens or the internet, and that has worrying implications for us as social beings. Do you have a problem with the way you're using digital devices? In the living room, the car, the classroom, the bedroom and ev...
- Monday, 15 May 2017 09:17
- By Martin Grossner
The internet is one of the most important inventions of the modern era. However, current estimates say that only 40 percent of people around the globe have access. As internet connectivity becomes ever more important, new technologies are emerging to connect the entire globe with better, ...
- Monday, 15 May 2017 08:32
- By Jennifer Levin
Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the worldwide web. I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities, and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries. In many ways, the web has l...
- Monday, 15 May 2017 07:57
- By Issac Avila
How Does the Blockchain Work? Blockchain is a decentralized data structure; it serves as the building block for digital currencies. For example, the famous Bitcoin relies on blockchain technology. But, how does the blockchain work, you ask? To avoid complications, put on your “accounting” h...
- Monday, 15 May 2017 05:50
- By Edna Thomas
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Editor’s note: This is a revised version of the original piece. We have done so to make explicit the author’s expertise with regard to the subject of this article. We have also incorporated important context that was missing in the origi...
- Monday, 15 May 2017 04:41
- By Alex Grey
Here’s what happened to global temperatures after the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs wreaked apocolyptic havoc on Earth due to circumstance rather than size, scientists have argued. New research suggests the relatively minor nine-mile wide asteroid — e...
- Monday, 15 May 2017 02:54
- By Daniel K. Henry
A New Internet From the birth of language to the dawn of the Internet, the technologies that push humanity forward allow us to collaborate at new scales. We agree on a common purpose, and work together in groups of increasing size and power. Today, with so many of us connected online, the goal of 3....
- Monday, 15 May 2017 01:54
- By Daniel K. Henry
At the lab at the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University, Elisabeth De Carvalho and her team are developing a massive MIMO-system; hundreds of antennas that will make mobile data transmission far more efficient and safe in the future. Credit: Jakob Brodersen Mobile base stations for ...
- Monday, 15 May 2017 01:39
- By Corey Parker
Nobody likes layovers, but the first astronauts heading to Mars will get to experience one of the longest such experiences of their lives. They’ll have to spend one year going around the moon, which will probably be a very annoying wait for the first people heading to the red planet. It’s not al...
- Monday, 15 May 2017 01:12
- By Anthony Frank
By combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, researchers found that the atmosphere of the distant “warm Neptune” exoplanet HAT-P-26b, illustrated here, is unexpectedly primitive, composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. The astronomers also detected water and ev...
- Sunday, 14 May 2017 10:28
- By Olivia Russell
Spaceships and Large Hadron Colliders are cool for the geek set, but we like our science a little more practical. Frankly, why is technology so geared toward people with purpose in life? What about us regular folks? We all know a bunch of nerds put on a man on the Moon, but have they ever a moon pie...
- Saturday, 13 May 2017 16:02
- By Anna K. Sasaki
Despite the reach of the Internet and its growing complexity, no physical map of the Internet had been produced, until now. The outcome highlights the Internet-dependent nature of our world. To understand the depth of the project it is important to appreciate what the Internet is. The Internet ...
- Friday, 12 May 2017 13:55
- By Clara Johnson
Last year, Google introduced the ability to save pages offline with Chrome for Android and now the search giant has eased up the process of downloading pages altogether. While there several apps that allow users to save webpages for offline reading, Google says that more than 45 ...
- Friday, 12 May 2017 07:18
- By AOFIRS .
Opera’s latest update for its desktop browser makes its easier to stay on top of conversations from various messaging apps, by baking their services right into the app. Fire up Opera and you’ll now be able to access Facebook’s Messenger, WhatsApp and Telegram right from the browser’s side...
- Friday, 12 May 2017 06:22
- By AOFIRS .
Chrome for Android now lets you save entire websites for reading later. It's perfect for folks who want to read where a connection isn't available, like on the subway. It's only available for Android users right now, unfortunately, but iOS users should try "Read it Later" or "Pocket." Google r...
- Thursday, 11 May 2017 10:48
- By Logan Hochstetler
Updating your website involves more than just rearranging words and pictures on the homepage. Changing your website involves implementing new technology behind the scenes, eliminating dot-com domains and using research to optimize pages to capture your audience’s attention. Just think about your w...
- Thursday, 11 May 2017 10:39
- By Martin Grossner
It can be a pain to upload your own Street View photos even if you have a 360-degree camera. You may have to stop to take photos every few feet, and then there's the question of getting the spherical shots from your camera to the internet. Google thinks it can help. It's working with hardware p...
- Thursday, 11 May 2017 08:54
- By Anthony Frank
As newsroom jobs decline, we analyze the main problems facing modern journalists, and how new technology is lightening the load. The news industry has changed dramatically since it was hit by a ‘media downturn’ at the end of the 2000s. Leading publications were forced to cut newsroom jobs a...
- Tuesday, 09 May 2017 08:51
- By Jennifer Levin
According to BetaNews, the United States continues to lag behind many other nations when it comes to broadband penetration and access speeds. To make matters worse, Americans pay more for Internet than many countries with faster speeds. BroadbandNow.com, which has helped over 1M people search for In...
- Tuesday, 09 May 2017 06:23
- By Corey Parker
Wearable technology in the bedroom is about to be unsheathed with the smart condom ring from i.Con that measures a wide variety of performance-related data....
- Tuesday, 09 May 2017 04:31
- By Alex Grey
