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There Could Be a Bunch of Tardigrades Alive on The Moon Right Now
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There Could Be a Bunch of Tardigrades Alive on The Moon Right Now
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There Could Be a Bunch of Tardigrades Alive on The Moon Right Now
A horde of microscopic critters called tardigrades were passengers aboard the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet, which crashed into the lunar surface nearly four months ago.
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These Sharks Produce an Eerie Glow Through a Mechanism Previously Unknown to Science
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These Sharks Produce an Eerie Glow Through a Mechanism Previously Unknown to Science
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These Sharks Produce an Eerie Glow Through a Mechanism Previously Unknown to Science
Glowing catsharks that lurk the briny depths have a fluorescence mechanism never seen before in another organism. And that glow could be conferring some serious perks - such as the ability to pick out other sharks among the many fluorescent things
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Scientists Successfully Turn Breast Cancer Cells Into Fat to Stop Them From Spreading
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Scientists Successfully Turn Breast Cancer Cells Into Fat to Stop Them From Spreading
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Scientists Successfully Turn Breast Cancer Cells Into Fat to Stop Them From Spreading
Researchers have been able to coax human breast cancer cells to turn into fat cells in a new proof-of-concept study in mice.
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Not All Viruses Are Bad For You. Here Are Some That Can Have a Protective Effect
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Not All Viruses Are Bad For You. Here Are Some That Can Have a Protective Effect
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Not All Viruses Are Bad For You. Here Are Some That Can Have a Protective Effect
Viruses are mostly known for their aggressive and infectious nature.
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Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Has Emitted a Mysteriously Bright Flare
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Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Has Emitted a Mysteriously Bright Flare
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Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Has Emitted a Mysteriously Bright Flare
The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, is relatively quiet. It's not an active nucleus, spewing light and heat into the space around it; most of the time, the black hole's activity is low key, with minimal fluctu
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Astronomers Just Got Closer to Unravelling The Mystery of 'Glitching' Pulsars
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Astronomers Just Got Closer to Unravelling The Mystery of 'Glitching' Pulsars
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Astronomers Just Got Closer to Unravelling The Mystery of 'Glitching' Pulsars
A peculiar hiccup in the rotation speed of a dead star has turned out to be even more interesting than we thought. For the first time, astronomers have shown that the rotation of the Vela pulsar slowed down immediately before its 2016 glitch.
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Women Are Not Better at Multitasking. They Just Do More Work, Studies Show
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Women Are Not Better at Multitasking. They Just Do More Work, Studies Show
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Women Are Not Better at Multitasking. They Just Do More Work, Studies Show
Multitasking has traditionally been perceived as a woman's domain. A woman, particularly one with children, will routinely be juggling a job and running a household – in itself a frantic mix of kids' lunch boxes, housework, and organising appoint
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Independent Data Just Confirmed July as Earth's Hottest Month Since Records Began
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Independent Data Just Confirmed July as Earth's Hottest Month Since Records Began
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Independent Data Just Confirmed July as Earth's Hottest Month Since Records Began
Data from thousands of surface monitoring stations worldwide, including ocean buoys in the Pacific and land-based thermometers dotting the continents, show that July 2019 was the warmest month on Earth since at least 1850.
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For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Made a Stable Ring of Pure Carbon
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For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Made a Stable Ring of Pure Carbon
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For The First Time Ever, Scientists Have Made a Stable Ring of Pure Carbon
Carbon can be arranged in a number of configurations. When each of its atoms is bonded to three other carbon atoms, it's relatively soft graphite. Add just one more bond and it becomes one of the hardest minerals known, diamond. Chuck 60 carbon ato
Bubble Experiment Finds Universal Laws
Physicists have found examples of “universality” in a system of confined bubbles. The work could help researchers understand the strange behavior of singularities.
Each time a drop drips from a faucet, nature performs a magic trick. Breaking one blob into two calls for passage through a singularity — a single point where physical quantities flirt with the infinite. As the neck connecting the two blobs thins to nothing, the fluid pressure and speed race upward toward infinity, as if they were being divided by zero. Here, the equations used to describe fluids suffer a mathematical explosion. Order returns only after the sudden break.
Physicists have found examples of “universality” in a system of confined bubbles. The work could help researchers understand the strange behavior of singularities.
Each time a drop drips from a faucet, nature performs a magic trick. Breaking one blob into two calls for passage through a singularity — a single point where physical quantities flirt with the infinite. As the neck connecting the two blobs thins to nothing, the fluid pressure and speed race upward toward infinity, as if they were being divided by zero. Here, the equations used to describe fluids suffer a mathematical explosion. Order returns only after the sudden break.
Should we go to Myanmar again to film some more pagodas?
Video here:
Myanmar 2019 Ultra HD, pagodas https://youtu.be/j3BUhl_wwiQ
Video here:
Myanmar 2019 Ultra HD, pagodas https://youtu.be/j3BUhl_wwiQ
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Scientists Just Traced Antibiotic Resistance Millions of Years Into The Past
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Scientists Just Traced Antibiotic Resistance Millions of Years Into The Past
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Scientists Just Traced Antibiotic Resistance Millions of Years Into The Past
New research has traced the history of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance back some 350-500 million years, a study in deep microorganism genealogy that could help in our current battle to contain the rise of superbugs.
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Earth May Have Supported Life Much Earlier Than We Thought, Study Suggests
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Earth May Have Supported Life Much Earlier Than We Thought, Study Suggests
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Earth May Have Supported Life Much Earlier Than We Thought, Study Suggests
Early Earth grew up in a chaotic time. As our planet tried to find its place in a relatively young Solar System about 4.5 billion years ago, it was under constant attack from waves of comets, whizzing asteroids, and even some failed proto-planets.
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Brilliant Video Shows a Comet Get Utterly Vaporised by Our Sun
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Brilliant Video Shows a Comet Get Utterly Vaporised by Our Sun
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Brilliant Video Shows a Comet Get Utterly Vaporised by Our Sun
Between its raging heat and intense gravity, the region really close to the Sun is a pretty hazardous place. And that has been spectacularly demonstrated in a new video of a comet, like the legendary Icarus, falling to its doom when it veered a lit
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These 9 'Moonshot' Innovations Will Remind You How Ingenious Humans Can Truly Be
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These 9 'Moonshot' Innovations Will Remind You How Ingenious Humans Can Truly Be
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These 9 'Moonshot' Innovations Will Remind You How Ingenious Humans Can Truly Be
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped foot on the Moon in 1969, they helped to cement the idea of a "moonshot" – a goal or achievement that challenges what we thought was possible.
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Physicists Have Built The World's Smallest Engine, And It's Seriously Tiny
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Physicists Have Built The World's Smallest Engine, And It's Seriously Tiny
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Physicists Have Built The World's Smallest Engine, And It's Seriously Tiny
It's not like the one in your car, but a team of physicists at Trinity College Dublin have built what they claim is the world's smallest engine. The engine is the size of a single calcium ion - about ten billion times smaller than an automobile eng
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It's Not Just Brazil's Amazon - Bolivia's Vital Forests Are Burning Out of Control, Too
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It's Not Just Brazil's Amazon - Bolivia's Vital Forests Are Burning Out of Control, Too
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It's Not Just Brazil's Amazon - Bolivia's Vital Forests Are Burning Out of Control, Too
Up to 800,000 hectares of the unique Chiquitano forest were burned to the ground in Bolivia between August 18 and August 23. That's more forest than is usually destroyed across the country in two years.