Scientists may have found a new supernova explosion or supermassive black hole in a galaxy about 600 million light years from Earth after pointing a telescope there for the first time in a couple of decades and spotting something super bright near its center. The National Radio Astronomy O...
- Thursday, 25 May 2017 00:05
- By Alex Grey
You’re forgiven if the name KIC 8462852 doesn’t ring a bell. It’s a far-off object, thought to be a star, which was only just discovered in late 2015, but it’s already managed to totally confuse researchers in its extremely brief stint on the scientific stage. The star has continually exhibi...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 08:39
- By Steven Ryan
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the distant universe. Credit: NASA. Looking up into the night sky, it's challenging enough for an amateur astronomer to count the number of naked-eye stars that are visible. With bigger telescopes, more stars become visible, making counting impossible be...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 08:15
- By Barbara Larson
An infrared image of 47 Tucanae, a dense globular cluster of stars located roughly 16,000 light years from Earth. A new study has predicted that a black hole lies at its center. (2MASS / T. Jarrett) A new method could help scientists peer inside universe’s densest star clusters to find undisc...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 08:09
- By Daniel K. Henry
Researchers believe split between chimps and humans occurred in eastern Europe, not Africa A jawbone discovered by German troops in Athens during the Second World War could be evidence that apes and humans diverged 200,000 years earlier than the current theory says. Chimpanzees and bonobos are ...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 05:06
- By Martin Grossner
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. They’re mysterious bursts of radio waves from space that are over in a fraction of a second. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are thought to occur many thousands of times a day, but since their first detec...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 04:47
- By Carol R. Venuti
The orbits of all seven Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are now known. Astronomers have nailed down the path of TRAPPIST-1h, the outermost planet in the system, finding that this world takes just under 19 Earth days to complete one lap around its small, faint host star. T...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 04:04
- By Carol R. Venuti
BREAKING BARRIERS With the advent of the internet, there are fewer barriers to communication than ever before. Distance has basically become negligible in terms of talking to each other. Ongoing developments have continued to make it even easier. Now, in many cases, language is no longer a barr...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 03:04
- By Ashley
An artist's impression of the exoplanet Proxima b, located just 4.2 lightyears from Earth. ESO/M. Kornmesser A second Earth may orbit our nearest neighboring star, and according to new simulations, it may be comfortable for life as we know it. Maybe. Proxima b is thought to be&n...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 00:57
- By Alex Grey
What does fast food have to do with interstellar travel? At first blush, not much. But halfway through the film, “The Founder,” on a grueling, recent ten hour flight, it hit me that aerospace, even NASA, might learn something from McDonald’s corporation founding CEO Ray Kroc. Three years befor...
- Tuesday, 23 May 2017 06:07
- By Issac Avila
Aimed at outdoor enthusiasts, Bing's latest updates will also surface detailed info for local campsites and campgrounds in US national parks. Bing has rolled out a new search feature aimed at hikers and campers that makes it easier to find trails and camping sites this summer. According to...
- Tuesday, 23 May 2017 05:51
- By James Gill
A distant star has begun exhibiting the same strange behavior that led astronomers to suggest an “alien megastructure” is orbiting it. Tabby’s Star first attracted the world’s attention last year when stargazers suggested the distinctive “blinking” of its light was caused by a gigantic s...
- Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:14
- By Daniel K. Henry
Brian Greene, Columbia University physicist and co-founder of the World Science Festival, explains how today's physicists and mathematicians use an Einsteinian formula to explain the universe that Einstein himself originally thought was false. ...
- Tuesday, 23 May 2017 03:12
- By Alex Grey
Think about it: What are you doing to keep your brain healthy and fit? It might seem like our brains can take care of themselves, but let’s not forget to help a brain out! If you’re feeling foggy, stressed, forgetful, moody, sleepy, or just not as sharp as you used to be, your brain might be tr...
- Tuesday, 23 May 2017 01:25
- By Anna K. Sasaki
A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia, Canada, has proposed a radical new theory about the expansion of the universe. Scientists do not know exactly why the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating pace, but the most popular theory is that this growth is being driven by ...
- Monday, 22 May 2017 14:13
- By Barbara Larson
Hello. It’s my first day back covering technology for The Atlantic. It also marks roughly 10 years that I’ve been covering science and technology, so I’ve been thinking back to my early days at Wired in the pre-crash days of 2007. The internet was then, as it is now, something we gave a kin...
- Monday, 22 May 2017 08:59
- By James Gill
Space is big and dark, and since there is no air, no one can hear you scream as you float away forever and ever and ever. But those are only the human-sized terrors that space has to offer our nightmares. Because, as you will see, if you step back a few thousand light years from your simple humanoid...
- Monday, 22 May 2017 08:10
- By Anna K. Sasaki
Crappy? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You have no idea kid! This is the image of New York taken from the International Space Station, 400 km away from any point on Earth (that is directly under it) and travelling at 27000 km/h. An image of New York taken from the International Space Station. Photo: Quora So I he...
- Monday, 22 May 2017 07:21
- By Corey Parker
We never stopped evolving. Humans are still evolving, So, where will evolution take us in 1,000 years? Chances are we'll be taller. Humans have already seen a boom in height over the last 130 years. In 1880 the average American male was 5'7" (170 cm). Today, he's 5'10" (177 cm). We may also mer...
- Monday, 22 May 2017 01:01
- By Anna K. Sasaki
A diamond ring is one of the phenomena that occurs in the last few seconds before totality during a total solar eclipse. Credit: Ben Cooper/Don Hladiuk Three months from today (May 21), a shadow of darkness will travel across the United States in the middle of the day. The portion of the cou...
- Sunday, 21 May 2017 14:23
- By Anna K. Sasaki
So you made your way to this article, but how did you do it? Did your motor cortex fire up the muscle fibers in your fingers to click on a particular area of the screen, prompting the CPU inside your device to load up this page? One day that could all seem decidedly archaic. That’s because some sm...
- Sunday, 21 May 2017 06:24
- By Carol R. Venuti
It's a big, crazy world out there, so it's understandable that strange stuff happens in it. Fortunately for us puny humans, science has been able to explain some of it. But, in the same way that explaining a joke ruins it, it remains to be seen whether or not science's explanations take the fun out ...
- Sunday, 21 May 2017 05:53
- By AOFIRS .
Credit: Viktor Fiker | Dreamstime The average temperature on Earth is in danger of exceeding a major climate threshold inside a decade, say researchers in Australia, if a dormant source of warming in the Pacific Ocean switches on, giving a boost to global temperature rise. Under the 2015 Paris Agree...
- Saturday, 20 May 2017 19:54
- By AOFIRS .
Public, private and hybrid cloud implementations will accelerate in 2017 as CIOs seek to take advantage of the cloud’s economies of scale to build core applications. Cloud computing has helped many enterprises transform themselves over the last five years, but experts agree that the market is ent...
- Saturday, 20 May 2017 19:30
- By Steven Ryan
This is an illustration of layers of radiation belts close to Earth that were produced as a result of Cold War high-altitude nuclear explosion tests. The ongoing debate about global warming and climate change includes arguments about whether our world actually faces such a problem, and whe...
- Saturday, 20 May 2017 07:10
- By Linda Manly
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