The Most Astounding Fact – Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.
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Volunteers teach AI to spot slavery sites from satellite images

Online volunteers are helping to track slavery from space. A new crowdsourcing project aims to identify South Asian brick kilns – frequently the site of forced labour – in satellite images. This data will then be used to train machine learning algorithms to automatically recognise brick kilns in satellite imagery....
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ESA Moves Forward on Gravitational Wave and Exoplanet Missions

The European Space Agency has selected an ambitious space-based gravitational-wave observatory as its next large space science mission, scheduled for launch by 2034. ESA announced June 20 that its Science Program Committee has formally selected the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission for development as the third large, or “L3,”...
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Snake Rovers Might Take Us Below The Martian Surface

Human space exploration is going to kick into high gear in the coming decades. Within the inner Solar System alone, missions are being planned that will see robotic explorers and crews sent to Near Earth Objects (NEOs), back to the Moon, and even on to Mars. Beyond that, there are...
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Scientists Are Getting Creepily Close to Being Able to Read Our Minds

Scientists are one step closer to becoming mind readers after new research identified some of the complex brain patterns that go into forming sentences in our heads. Brain patterns generated by certain sentences could be predicted with 87 percent accuracy in the study, based on an ‘alphabet’ of 42 different...
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The World’s Tropical Zone Is Expanding, And We Should All Be Worried

The Tropics are defined as the area of Earth where the Sun is directly overhead at least once a year – the zone between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. However, tropical climates occur within a larger area about 30 degrees either side of the Equator. Earth’s dry subtropical zones lie adjacent to...
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Physicists Just Found One of The Forces Holding The World Together Can Also Push It Apart

No, seriously, we really will need to update the textbooks on this one. A type of force that makes molecules briefly stick to one another has been shown to have a more repulsive side, even when they aren’t being squeezed together. Since first being described in 1930, van der Waal forces have...
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An Astronomer Has a Plan to Use The Sun’s Gravity to Channel Video From The Stars

New research has demonstrated the feasibility of a rather creative solution to the challenge of sending large amounts of data over interstellar distances; we could use the Sun’s gravity. The same lensing effect that has allowed astronomers to see galaxies at the edge of the Universe would also focus streams of information...
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Carbon Nanotubes Found to Be a Safe Bet For Reconnecting Neurons

Scientists have integrated carbon nanotubes in neurons to control growth and restore lost electrical connections between nerve cells. They have shown that the carbon nanotubes can be used safely and hope they can restore neural function to people with spinal injuries. The integration of carbon nanotubes brought along some unexpected...
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Scientists Want to Genetically Engineer Heat-Resistant Cows to Survive Climate Change

Umm… The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) has proposed a plan to make cows more resistant to the temperature increase caused by global warming. The proposal has received a three-year, US$733,000 federal grant. The scientists’ plan aims to retain the quality meat cows provide while increasing the efficiency of the process...
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Another Universe May Have Bumped Into Ours and We Might Have Proof

The Cold Spot in the cosmic microwave background radiation has led astronomers to speculate the possibility of parallel universes.
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Happy Aphelion! Earth Is Farthest from the Sun Today

Earth gets farther from the sun today (July 3) than it does at any other point during the year. The moment of greatest separation, known as aphelion, comes at 4:11 p.m. EDT (2011 GMT) today, when Earth and the sun will be 94,505,901 miles (152,092,505 kilometers) apart. On average, Earth lies 92,955,807 miles...
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If We Stopped Emitting Greenhouse Gases Right Now, Would We Stop Climate Change?

Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. We know this from billions of observations, documented in thousands of journal papers and texts and summarised every few years by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The primary cause of that change is the release of carbon dioxide from burning coal, oil and natural...
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NASA Is Planning an Asteroid Deflection Test Mission in Case The Unthinkable Happens

NASA is preparing an ambitious test mission to see if it’s capable of deflecting an incoming asteroid that, if left unchecked, would imperil Earth. The space agency wants to examine whether it’s possible to knock threatening space rocks off their trajectory to prevent the fiery annihilation of all we hold dear, and has signalled...
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This Battery-Free Cellphone Works by Harvesting Power From Ambient Radio Signals

If there’s a bottleneck in today’s smartphones and mobile devices generally, it’s battery life – or, rather, the lack of it – but a new innovation from researchers in the US could mean an end to constantly staring at that sad-looking little red battery icon. Scientists have developed a working...
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This Quantum Theory Predicts That The Future Might Be Influencing The Past

One of the weirder aspects of quantum mechanics could be explained by an equally weird idea – that causation can run backwards in time as well as forwards. What Einstein called “spooky” action at a distance could theoretically be evidence of retrocausality, which is the particle equivalent of you getting a stomach ache...
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The Large Hadron Collider Just Detected a New Particle That’s Heavier Than a Proton

The Large Hadron Collider has once again done what it does best – smash bits of matter together and find new particles in the carnage. This time physicists have come across a real charmer. It’s four times heavier than a proton and could help challenge some ideas about how this...
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We’re Sending Another Probe to Mercury to Work Out Why The Planet’s Shrinking

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have unveiled the probe they’re sending to study Mercury in 2018, tasked with figuring out why the smallest planet in the Solar System appears to be shrinking. The BepiColombo spacecraft is also going to be tasked with looking for...
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NASA Jupiter Probe to Fly Over Great Red Spot Tonight

NASA’s Juno spacecraft is about to get the best-ever look at Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot. Juno will fly over the 10,000-mile-wide (16,000 kilometers) storm — which is so big that three Earths could fit inside it — at 10:06 p.m. EDT tonight (July 10; 0206 GMT on July 11), during the probe’s...
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