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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Astronomers Have Finally Pinpointed The Source of One of Those Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are arguably the weirdest phenomena in our Universe right now. They’re some of the most explosive signals ever detected in space, generating as much energy as 500 million Suns in mere milliseconds, but scientists have been struggling to explain them. Now, astronomers have pinpointed the exact...
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18 Science Facts We Didn’t Know at The Start of 2017

1. Lungs don’t just facilitate respiration - they also make blood. Mammalian lungs produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour, which equates to the majority of platelets circulating the body. 2. It is mathematically possible to build an actual time machine - what’s holding us back...
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The Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself When It Doesn’t Get Enough Sleep

The reason we sleep goes far beyond simply replenishing our energy levels every 12 hours - our brains actually change states when we sleep to clear away the toxic byproducts of neural activity left behind during the day. Weirdly enough, the same process starts to occur in brains that are...
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How Ebola disables people’s immune defenses

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston scientists have unlocked mysteries of how the Ebola virus hampers the body’s natural defenses to speed the rate of infection and its accompanying lethal disease, according to a new report in PLOS Pathogens. The study was conducted in collaboration with the University of...
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Cassini Takes Most Dangerous Saturn Ring Dive Yet

The Cassini spacecraft completes its sixth dive between Saturn and its rings today (May 28), and this is the most dangerous dive yet. Instead of passing safely between the planet and its rings, the spacecraft is plunging straight through the inner edge of Saturn’s D ring. The spacecraft, which is...
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NASA Is About to Make a Big Announcement About a New Mission to “Touch The Sun”

This Wednesday, NASA will officially announce its intention to launch a probe that will dip inside the Sun’s atmosphere, calling it the first ever mission to “touch the Sun”. The Solar Probe Plus mission will have to cope with temperatures and radiation unlike any other probe, but the data it...
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