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Scientists: We Most Likely Won’t Ever Be Able to Communicate With...
A New Look When we imagine extraterrestrial intelligences, we usually think of something approximately like us—even if they may look a little unusual, possessing the requisite slimy tentacles or bug...
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What’s the Biggest Star in the Universe? Depends on Your Definition of “Big”
A Perennial Question What is the biggest star in the universe? It’s something we all wonder about at some point. After all, we know the Sun is big. Very big. But we also know from astronomical...
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Newest Discovery Moves Us One Step Closer To Making Synthetic Organisms With...
Southpaw DNA and Righty Amino Acids One of the great mysteries of life concerns what is called life’s “chirality”—that is, its “handedness.” Just like you and I, the very macromolecules that make up...
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Searching for Life: NASA Evidence Shows Europa is Far More Earth-Like Than...
Looking Better All the Time Jupiter’s moon Europa may not seem like the most promising candidate for life in our Solar System. It has no atmosphere to speak of, for one thing. For another, it’s...
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Billions of Years Ago, Mega-Tsunamis Washed Across Mars
Surf’s Up Roughly 3.4 billion years ago, a giant meteorite smacked into the northern plains of Mars. Not too surprising, perhaps, considering the crater-strewn surface of the Red Planet, which is a...
View ArticleNew Research Suggests Dark Energy Might be the Reason Time Runs Forward
About Time It’s one of those things that we take for granted—time moves forward and never backward. But did you ever stop to wonder why it moves in one direction, as opposed to the other? The question...
View ArticleScottish Waters Will Host The World’s Largest Floating Wind Farm
The Norwegian energy company, Statoil, is planning to have five 6MW Hywind turbines in place about 24 km (15 mi) off the coast of Scotland and fully operational by next year. “Floating offshore wind is...
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India Successfully Launches Tiny Reusable Space Shuttle
Joining the Club The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) just launched and recovered a tiny (7-meter/21-foot-long) prototype reusable spacecraft. The launch was set according to the “Reusable...
View ArticleVibranium: Hyperloop Pods Will be Made From Super-Light “Smart Skin” That’s...
A Futuristic Metal The idea behind the so-called “Hyperloop” system—which was first proposed in a 2013 white paper by Elon Musk, SpaceX founder and technological Tiresias—is pretty revolutionary stuff....
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Dubai 3D Printed This “Office of the Future” in Less Than 3 Weeks
Dubai’s Newest Experiment The city of Dubai, the largest and most populous in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has already proven itself to be in the vanguard of innovation. It already possesses the...
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Giant Solar Storms May Have Fueled the Evolution of Life on Earth
Early Days on Planet Earth Take a stroll on the early Earth, about 4 billion years ago, and you would have seen a very alien place indeed. Our study of other Sun-like stars, on the other hand, shows us...
View ArticleThanks to Time Dilation, Earth’s Core is 2.5 Years Younger Than its Surface
The Case of the Missing Time Now here’s some weird science for you. The Earth’s surface is actually 2.5 years older than its core. Meaning that the core of our planet (the inside) is 2.5 years younger...
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Scientists Find a Better Way to Make Structures to Create DNA Based Tech
The Littlest Origami When it comes to building at the nanoscale, DNA is the construction material of choice. That may seem a little strange. After all, DNA is nature’s hard drive, encoding the software...
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An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star
The Changeling It seems our solar system’s planets might have a foster sibling. “Planet 9,” which has been much in the news of late, may really be the spawn of another sun. At least that’s the word...
View ArticleUniversal Basic Income Hits the U.S—Citizens Will Get Paid Just For Being Born
The Oakland Experiment There’s been a lot of talk lately about “basic income”—the notion of a guaranteed financial disbursement to every human being simply for being alive. It’s an idea that has...
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Spacetime Is a Fluid and Black Holes are Holograms—New Research Means Our...
Black Hole Holograms We all know black holes are strange. Very, very strange. After all, they represent a phenomenon where gravity becomes so strong it upends the laws of physics and challenges...
View ArticleGoogle’s New Universal Quantum Computer: One Step Closer to Quantum Supremacy
Analog or Digital? It’s the Holy Grail of computing—a fully functional, multi-purpose quantum computer, furnished with all the computational power needed to tackle the most daunting of challenges....
View ArticleSuccessful Satellite Tests for a Global Quantum Network
Pie in the Sky It’s pretty obvious, by now, that the quantum frontier is the next big thing. We hear a lot nowadays about quantum computers and quantum cryptography. Quantum is truly the next era in...
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Engineers Created Tiny, Hovering Reusable Rockets
Xodiac and Xaero B Masten Space Systems is quietly making a name for itself, with the release of some pretty slick videos of their new reusable rockets Xodiac and Xaero B, which show the craft hovering...
View ArticleLIGO Just Detected Gravitational Waves From a Second Black Hole Collision!
They’ve Done it Again! Scientists at LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) just observed gravitational waves for the second time—another historic milestone for the observatory, in...
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