This New Device Can Hear The Actual Sounds Made by Individual Cells

Engineers have created a nano-sized optical fibre that can sense impossibly small forces, from the turbulence generated by swimming bacteria to the sound waves made by the beating of heart cells. Sensing in biological systems could even allow us to monitor individual cells and alert us to the subtle process...
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Astronomers scramble as ‘alien megastructure’ star dims again

The most famously weird star in our galaxy is acting up again. On Friday, 19 May, Tabby’s star began to dim, carrying on a history of mysterious dips in brightness. Astronomers are scrambling to point as many telescopes as possible at the star, which is 1,300 light-years away in the...
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Now Artificial Intelligence Is Inventing Sounds That Have Never Been Heard Before

As well as beating us at board games, driving cars, and spotting cancer, artificial intelligence is now generating brand new sounds that have never been heard before, thanks to some advanced maths combined with samples from real instruments. Before long, you might hear some of these fresh sounds pumping out...
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Scientists Assert That We Will Make Contact With Aliens in the Next Decade

Technical advances in space exploration and science are driving the increased likelihood of making contact with extraterrestrial life. Contact with alien life, especially if it happens soon, has the potential to transform humanity entirely. Both the most cynical person on Earth and the world’s greatest optimist could easily look at...
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Scientists Have Discovered a ‘Puffy’ Exoplanet With The Density of Styrofoam

The Universe just keeps on getting stranger. Astronomers have found a giant exoplanet larger than Jupiter, but with extremely low mass - a composition that gives this mysterious ’puffy planet’ a density very similar to styrofoam. The team who found KELT-11b, which orbits a star located about 320 light-years from Earth,...
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The Doomsday Clock (Infographic)

The Doomsday Clock is now at 2 ½ minutes to midnight, or nuclear disaster. But what does this really mean, and is the Doomsday Clock a useful tool?
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Weird energy beam seems to travel five times the speed of light

Please welcome to the stage a master illusionist. An energy beam that stabs out of galaxy M87 like a toothpick in a cocktail olive is pulling off the ultimate magic trick: seeming to move faster than the speed of light. Almost five times faster, in fact, as measured by the...
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Scientists Have Stabilised a One-Dimensional Metallic Material in a World-First Experiment

It’s one atom thick. Researchers have constructed the world’s thinnest metallic nanowire, creating a stable string of the chemical element tellurium, that measures just one atom thick. The team behind the nanowire says the material is the most precisely configured ’one-dimensional’ system yet, and the technique used to produce the...
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Stanislav Petrov: The man who may have saved the world

Thirty years ago, on 26 September 1983, the world was saved from potential nuclear disaster. In the early hours of the morning, the Soviet Union’s early-warning systems detected an incoming missile strike from the United States. Computer readouts suggested several missiles had been launched. The protocol for the Soviet military...
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Scientists Have Identified 40 New Genes Linked to Intelligence

Scientists have discovered 40 new genes that appear to be linked to intelligence, and the find could help neurologists understand how the human brain develops key functions associated with thinking. While the influence of these genes on intelligence is expected to be “minuscule”- a wide variety of factors are known to...
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Supernova Face-Off May Solve 40-Year-Old Antimatter Mystery

The majority of antimatter that pervades the Milky Way may come from clashing remnants of dead stars, a new study finds. The work may solve a 40-year-old astrophysics mystery, the study’s researchers said. For every particle of normal matter, there is an antimatter counterpart with the opposite electrical charge but...
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Google’s New AI Is Better at Creating AI Than the Company’s Engineers

One of the more noteworthy remarks to come out of Google I/O ’17 conference this week was CEO Sundar Pichai recalling how his team had joked that they have achieved “AI inception” with AutoML. Instead of crafting layers of dreams like in the Christopher Nolan flick, however, the AutoML system layers artificial intelligence (AI),...
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We Need to Prepare for a World Without Aging

Modern science is bringing us ever closer to a day when aging is no longer a concern. However, with our increasing life-spans come challenges and questions we must be prepared to face. Humans have always been fascinated by the prospect of long life. For a classic take on this idea...
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A “Molecular Condom” Could Be the Future of Male Contraception

Researchers at UC Berkley have found a way to block the channels that give sperm cells a ’power kick’ to penetrate the egg cell wall. There have also been other promising suggestions over the last two years. In a paper published last week in PNAS, researchers at UC Berkley have...
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Turns Out, Snakes Can Hunt in Packs, So Let’s Just All Move to Antarctica

Snake hive mind If you ever had the misfortune of being hunted by a snake, in spite of everything, you could consider yourself lucky - at least it’s not an entire nest of serpents teaming up to run you down and devour your flesh. While scientists have never really been sure if...
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Robotic turtles can be used to detect landmines in the desert

When it comes to detecting landmines, being slow is an advantage. Swarms of robotic sea turtles teaching themselves to crawl in the Arizona desert could one day be used to help clear landmines in war zones. The military already has minesweeping robots, but their bulk makes them costly and difficult...
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How Bilingual Brains Perceive Time Differently (Video)

A new study has found that what language you speak might alter your perception of time.
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A New And Unusual Force in The Universe Just Got Even Stranger

New research has expanded on the discovery of a strange phenomenon called blackbody force, showing that the effect of radiation on particles surrounding massive objects can be magnified by the space that warps around them. The find could affect how we model the formation of stars and planets, and even help us...
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Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape

For a brief time during its infancy, Earth was not a planet. It was a hot, doughnut-shaped blob called a synestia. Rocky worlds can be pulverised by collisions with each other, mushrooming into synestias before cooling off and becoming more familiar-looking celestial spheres, a new study says. Worlds across...
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Ineffective antibiotics form strong teams against deadly super bacteria

In the fight against super bacteria, University at Buffalo scientists are relying on strength in numbers to win the battle against drug resistance. A team of researchers found that combinations of three antibiotics — that are each ineffective against superbugs when used alone — are capable of eradicating two of...
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