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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The Hottest Planet in The Known Universe Has Been Found – And It’s Warmer Than Most Stars

This is groundbreaking in many, many ways Scientists have found one of the craziest exoplanets yet. It’s a huge gas giant not unlike our Solar System’s own Jupiter, but it travels around its star in just 1.5 days, with a surface hotter than most stars. The planet orbits a blazing...
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Pulsar-Based Navigation System to Get Test on Space Station

An experiment that arrived at the International Space Station today (June 5) will test a celestial navigational system that one day may guide future spaceships to Jupiter as efficiently as GPS satellites get you to Starbucks. The Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology (SEXTANT) experiment is among the projects...
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The Insane Plan to Tow an Iceberg to the Middle East

A United Arab Emirates company wants to tow an iceberg from Antarctica to the desert for drinking water, but is their plan feasible?
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Glass Appears to Form a Mysterious New State of Matter – And It’s Got Scientists Fired Up

A 30-year debate has just been reignited by a physicist who appears to have found a mysterious new state of matter in an ordinary piece of glass. For decades, this unexplained phase transition has been sought in real-life materials, and now that we have evidence for it, scientists around the...
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