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!

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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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Astronomers Have a New Explanation For The ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star

Strange dips in the light from Tabby’s Star have been puzzling scientists since 2015, with some hopefuls refusing to rule out the chance that some kind of “alien megastructure” could be blocking the way. Experts have now come up with another explanation that doesn’t involve extraterrestrial technology, but rather a...
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CRS-11 SpaceX Launch Highlights

The CRS-11 mission is the first reflight of a Dragon spacecraft and marks the 100th launch from historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. Following stage separation, the first stage of Falcon 9 landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
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Your Brain Is a Time Machine: Why we need to talk about time

“TIME is a road without any bifurcations, intersections, exits, or turnarounds.” With that, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano sets up the meat of his new book, Your Brain is a Time Machine – and an intriguing difference between the way we animals navigate time as opposed to space. Not that contrasting...
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LIGO detects gravitational waves for third time

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in astronomy has been firmly opened. As was the case with the first two detections, the waves were generated when two black holes collided to form...
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What if We ARE Alone in the Universe?

In this video we’ll engage in a simple thought experiment and consider what would change if we knew we were alone in the universe, as well as two modifications of that premise. Make sure to leave a comment with your thoughts!
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Researchers Have Reorganised an Animal’s Brain to Act Like Another Species’ Brain

Species that share similar kinds of brain anatomy have been caught using different neural circuits to perform identical behaviours, and it challenges a basic assumption on the relationship between behaviour and neurology. The team is yet to figure out why this strange overlap exists among species, but the discovery points to...
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