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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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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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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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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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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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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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Get Ready: Space-Mining Might Be Only a Decade Away
Is water the new oil of space? It may be to Middle Eastern oil states such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who are looking at space as a way to diversify out of the earthly benefits of fossil fuel. “Middle East oil states are investing in satellite technology...
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The World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant Is Finally Online
The world’s largest floating solar power plant is now online in China. Built by Sungrow, a supplier of PV inverter systems, the 40MW plant is now afloat in water 4 to 10 metres deep, and successfully linked to Huainan, China’s grid. The placement was chosen in large part because the...
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Bacteria may supercharge the future of wastewater treatment
Wastewater treatment plants have a PR problem: People don’t like to think about what happens to the waste they flush down their toilets. But for many engineers and microbiologists, these plants are a hotbed of scientific advances, prompting their trade organization to propose a name change to “water resource recovery...
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Breakthrough curved sensor could dramatically improve digital camera image quality
If you’ve ever tried to take a picture in a dark restaurant, you know that it is difficult to get a clear, quality image. In the future, cameras might not struggle under these conditions thanks to a newly developed method for spherically curving the flat image sensors found in today’s...
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Physicists Are Probing The Centre of Our Galaxy to Find The Missing Fifth Force of Nature
Our current understanding of the Universe states that it’s governed by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetic, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. But there are hints of a fifth force of nature, and if it exists, we’d not only be able to fill the remaining holes in Einstein’s general...
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NASA Is About to Make a Big Announcement About a New Mission to “Touch The Sun”
This Wednesday, NASA will officially announce its intention to launch a probe that will dip inside the Sun’s atmosphere, calling it the first ever mission to “touch the Sun”. The Solar Probe Plus mission will have to cope with temperatures and radiation unlike any other probe, but the data it...
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How Ebola disables people’s immune defenses
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston scientists have unlocked mysteries of how the Ebola virus hampers the body’s natural defenses to speed the rate of infection and its accompanying lethal disease, according to a new report in PLOS Pathogens. The study was conducted in collaboration with the University of...
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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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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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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 (First re-flown Dragon)
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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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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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Latest view of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno spacecraft
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Breaking Newton’s Law
A ripe apple falling from a tree has inspired Sir Isaac Newton to formulate a theory that describes the motion of objects subject to a force. Newton’s equations of motion tell us that a moving body keeps on moving on a straight line unless any disturbing force may change its...
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World-First Trials Have Been Launched to Treat Parkinson’s And Blindness With Embryonic Stem Cells
This is happening. In a world first, surgeons in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou are planning to inject stem cells derived from human embryos into the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease with the aim of treating their debilitating symptoms. Meanwhile, another medical team in the same city is aiming...
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Researchers stumble onto a new role for breast cancer drug
When the eyes of her mice looked normal, Xu Wang was certain she had done something wrong. She was blasting the mice with blinding light to study how a specific gene affected the animals’ response to eye injury. All the mice were given the drug tamoxifen. Half were engineered to...
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The Great Barrier Reef Can No Longer Be Saved by Current Efforts, Scientists Warn
You’re not going to like Plan B. The Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved by existing plans to protect the ecological site, experts have warned, saying that efforts should shift to a lesser, backup plan of maintaining the reef’s “ecological function” instead. Scientists have told an Australian government...
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Moore’s Law Is Ending… So, What’s Next?
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Cassini Takes Most Dangerous Saturn Ring Dive Yet
The Cassini spacecraft completes its sixth dive between Saturn and its rings today (May 28), and this is the most dangerous dive yet. Instead of passing safely between the planet and its rings, the spacecraft is plunging straight through the inner edge of Saturn’s D ring. The spacecraft, which is...
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