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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Today (July 12) the Internet makes its stand! Click here to protect net neutrality!
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Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Success! NASA’s Juno mission has completed a close flyby of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. All of the probe’s science instruments were operational, NASA officials said in a statement, as was the craft’s JunoCam. Data and photos are now streaming back to Earth. Raw images of the gigantic storm, 1.3 times as wide...
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These 100 Companies Are to Blame For 71% of The World’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Since 1988, a mere 100 companies have been responsible for 71 percent of the entire world’s industrial greenhouse gas emissions. This data comes from an inaugural report published by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an environmental non-profit. Charting the rapid expansion of the fossil fuel industry in the last 28 years, they...
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Robotic landers could start mining the moon as early as 2020

A permanent robotic mining outpost on the moon could be on the cards as early as 2020. The Florida-based company Moon Express has raised over $45 million in funding for three expeditions that will culminate in a mission to mine moon rocks and return them to Earth. Because the laws governing usage of...
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Close up of the Great Red Spot

On July 11, the Juno spacecraft once again swung near to Jupiter's turbulent cloud tops in its looping 53 day orbit around the Solar System's ruling gas giant. About 11 minutes after perijove 7, its closest approach on this orbit, it passed directly above Jupiter's Great Red Spot. During the much anticipated fly over, it captured this close-up image data from a distance of less than 10,000 kilometers. The raw JunoCam data was subsequently processed by citizen scientists. Very long-lived but found to be shrinking, the Solar System's largest storm system was measure to be 16,350 kilometers wide on April 15. That's about 1.3 times the diameter of planet Earth.