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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Physicists Are Probing The Centre of Our Galaxy to Find The Missing Fifth Force of Nature

Our current understanding of the Universe states that it’s governed by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetic, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. But there are hints of a fifth force of nature, and if it exists, we’d not only be able to fill the remaining holes in Einstein’s general...
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The Great Barrier Reef Can No Longer Be Saved by Current Efforts, Scientists Warn

You’re not going to like Plan B. The Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved by existing plans to protect the ecological site, experts have warned, saying that efforts should shift to a lesser, backup plan of maintaining the reef’s “ecological function” instead. Scientists have told an Australian government...
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Breakthrough curved sensor could dramatically improve digital camera image quality

If you’ve ever tried to take a picture in a dark restaurant, you know that it is difficult to get a clear, quality image. In the future, cameras might not struggle under these conditions thanks to a newly developed method for spherically curving the flat image sensors found in today’s...
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Researchers stumble onto a new role for breast cancer drug

When the eyes of her mice looked normal, Xu Wang was certain she had done something wrong. She was blasting the mice with blinding light to study how a specific gene affected the animals’ response to eye injury. All the mice were given the drug tamoxifen. Half were engineered to...
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Bacteria may supercharge the future of wastewater treatment

Wastewater treatment plants have a PR problem: People don’t like to think about what happens to the waste they flush down their toilets. But for many engineers and microbiologists, these plants are a hotbed of scientific advances, prompting their trade organization to propose a name change to “water resource recovery...
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World-First Trials Have Been Launched to Treat Parkinson’s And Blindness With Embryonic Stem Cells

This is happening. In a world first, surgeons in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou are planning to inject stem cells derived from human embryos into the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease with the aim of treating their debilitating symptoms. Meanwhile, another medical team in the same city is aiming...
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The World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant Is Finally Online

The world’s largest floating solar power plant is now online in China. Built by Sungrow, a supplier of PV inverter systems, the 40MW plant is now afloat in water 4 to 10 metres deep, and successfully linked to Huainan, China’s grid. The placement was chosen in large part because the...
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Breaking Newton’s Law

A ripe apple falling from a tree has inspired Sir Isaac Newton to formulate a theory that describes the motion of objects subject to a force. Newton’s equations of motion tell us that a moving body keeps on moving on a straight line unless any disturbing force may change its...
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Get Ready: Space-Mining Might Be Only a Decade Away

Is water the new oil of space? It may be to Middle Eastern oil states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who are looking at space as a way to diversify out of the earthly benefits of fossil fuel. “Middle East oil states are investing in satellite technology...
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An Additional Sixth Sense Has Been Detected on The Tongue

It’s a question that goes back to Aristotle himself: Does water have a flavour, or is it devoid of taste? For millennia, scientists have been trying to figure out if the mammalian tongue can specifically taste water, or if our brains are responding to the after-effects of something we tasted...
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CERN Just Fast-Tracked Plans to Build a Particle Collider Three Times as Big as The LHC

And 7 times more powerful. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) still has plenty of good work left to do in the field of particle acceleration, but scientists are already starting work on its replacement, set to be three times as big as the (already huge) original. Development on the LHC’s...
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Gene therapy could ‘turn off’ severe allergies

A single treatment giving life-long protection from severe allergies such as asthma could be made possible by immunology research at The University of Queensland. A team led by Associate Professor Ray Steptoe at the UQ Diamantina Institute has been able to ’turn-off’ the immune response which causes allergic reaction in...
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The World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Just Gave Rise to a ‘Molecular Black Hole’

We’ve never seen anything like it. Imagine you took all sunlight that hits our planet at any given moment, and focussed it on one (unfortunate) piece of Earth the size of a thumbnail. Now times that blistering intensity by 100, and you’re beginning to understand the insanity of the world’s...
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CRS-11 SpaceX landing!

CRS-11 SpaceX - Dragon Deployment

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The Scale of Space

A short clip showing you the mind-blowing size of the universe. Shot with SpaceEngine.org Music: Deep Space Travels - Stellaris Soundtrack
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