Talking to E.T.? Why Math May Be the Best Language
The idea is that mathematics is as much a part of our humanity as music and art. And it is mathematics that might be understandable — even familiar — to extraterrestrial civilizations, allowing us to strike up star-speak repartee. Carl DeVito, an emeritus faculty in the mathematics department at the University...
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Expert: We’ll Find Alien Life in the Next 10 to 15 Years, but It Won’t Be Intelligent
The Search for Life From highly trained scientists toiling away at research institutes to amateur enthusiasts gazing upward from their backyards, humanity boasts no shortage of people looking for life beyond Earth. Add to that the massive size of the universe — estimates range in the trillions of galaxies — and probability dictates that we...
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Messages from fake aliens decoded quickly in online SETI contest
Do you speak alien? For years radio telescopes have been listening to the cosmos in the hope of picking up an alien message. We have had no luck yet, so while we wait René Heller organised a trial run. He simulated receiving a message from outer space and then challenged...
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A new device can clean polluted air and turn it into hydrogen energy

A team of Belgian researchers has developed a device that will remove pollutants from the air and convert them into simple hydrogen — using sunlight, nanoparticles and a photoelectric chemical membrane. This story is based on a radio interview. Listen to the full interview: The project was conceived and developed...
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Scientists Have Created The Largest Ever Virtual Universe Inside a Supercomputer

As well as studying what we can observe today, scientists rely on simulations to understand more about the past and future of the Universe – and we have a new record for the largest Universe simulation ever computed. A giant supercomputer has been used to model some 25 billion virtual...
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Worm Grows 2 Heads in Space, Surprising Scientists

The regenerative power of flatworms — which can regrow into complete individuals after they’ve been cut into pieces — is well-known among scientists. But a group of flatworms that recently visited the International Space Station (ISS) had a few surprises to share when they returned to Earth. Scientists sent the...
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Jupiter Has Been Declared The Most Ancient Planet in The Solar System

Jupiter formed in a geologic blink. Its rocky core coalesced less than a million years after the beginning of our solar system, scientists reported Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Within another 2 million or 3 million years, that core grew to 50 times the mass of Earth....
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Sun Likely Has a Long-Lost Twin

Nemesis is apparently real, even if its bad reputation is undeserved. For decades, some scientists have speculated that the sun has a companion whose gravitational tug periodically jostles comets out of their normal orbits, sending them careening toward Earth. The resulting impacts have caused mass extinctions, the thinking goes, which...
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The Human Brain Can Create Structures in Up to 11 Dimensions

Neuroscientists have used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains. What they’ve discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dimensions. We’re used to thinking of the world from a...
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Computers are starting to reason like humans

How many parks are near the new home you’re thinking of buying? What’s the best dinner-wine pairing at a restaurant? These everyday questions require relational reasoning, an important component of higher thought that has been difficult for artificial intelligence (AI) to master. Now, researchers at Google’s DeepMind have developed a...
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Alien megastructures – where we should look next

You remember the alien megastructure. No? Let me refresh your memory. Back in October 2015, the internet nearly broke when astronomers announced they had detected a strange signal that stood a remote chance of being a vast extraterrestrial construction – dubbed the alien megastructure. It was discovered using Nasa’s Kepler...
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New antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteria

Scientists from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the biotechnology company NAICONS Srl., and elsewhere have discovered a new antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteria: pseudouridimycin. The new antibiotic is produced by a microbe found in a soil sample collected in Italy and was discovered by screening microbes from soil samples. The new antibiotic...
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In a World-First, Scientists Have Achieved ‘Liquid Light’ at Room Temperature

For the first time, physicists have achieved ‘liquid light’ at room temperature, making this strange form of matter more accessible than ever. This matter is both a superfluid, which has zero friction and viscosity, and a kind of Bose-Einstein condensate – sometimes described as the fifth state of matter – and it allows light to...
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Broccoli Could Be a Secret Weapon Against Diabetes, Say ScientistsAnother reason to eat your greens.

Before reading the article please take a moment to take our survey Loading… Broccoli contains an ingredient that can help those with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugar level, according to a new study – potentially providing a much-needed treatment option for millions. A chemical in cruciferous vegetables like...
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This Machine Could Print Synthetic Life Forms on Demand, And Our Minds Are Reeling

Back in 2016, biologist Craig Venter achieved something extraordinary. He built a new species of bacteria from scratch in the lab – the simplest genetic life form known to science, made entirely through chemical synthesis of a custom-made genome. Now, he’s unveiled a new machine that could print these synthetic...
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Doctors Just Separated Twin Girls Joined at The Head in One of The World’s Rarest Surgeries

For the first time, conjoined twins Abby and Erin Delaney can sleep in separate beds. The 10-month-old girls from North Carolina were born connected at the head, an extremely rare condition. Following months of planning and preparation, the pair underwent a successful 11-hour separation surgery last week at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in southeastern Pennsylvania,...
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