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For The First Time, Physicists Have Observed a Giant Magnetic ‘Bridge’ Between Galaxies
For the first time, scientists have detected evidence of a magnetic field that’s associated with the vast intergalactic ’bridge’ that links our two nearest galactic neighbours. Known as the Magellanic Bridge, the bridge is a huge stream of neutral gas that stretches some 75,000 light-years between our two neighbouring galaxies,...
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Carl Sagan – You Are Here (Pale Blue Dot)
This excerpt from A Pale Blue Dot was inspired by an image taken, at Carl Sagan’s suggestion, by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990. As the spacecraft left our planetary neighborhood for the fringes of the solar system, engineers turned it around for one last look at its home planet....
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A New Dinosaur Fossil Found in Alberta Is So Well-Preserved It Looks Like a Statue
Before being assembled into something recognisable at a museum, most dinosaur fossils look to the casual observer like nothing more than common rocks. No one, however, would confuse the over 110 million-year-old nodosaur fossil for a stone. The fossil, being unveiled today in Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, is so...
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Scientists Are at a Loss to Explain This Mysterious Cosmic Radio Signal
There are now 22 of them, and we still have no idea what they are, what they mean, or where in the Universe they come from - fast radio bursts, those brilliant bursts of energy that last mere milliseconds, but are a billion timesmore luminous than anything we’ve seen in...
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Several Massive Viruses Could be ‘Re-awakened’ if the Arctic Permafrost Continues to Thaw
Revitalised ancient viruses might one day get added to the list of ominous consequences of melting ice. Scientists working in the Arctic circle over the past few decades have unearthed several massive viruses that some say could be re-awakened if the permafrost that imprisons them dissolves. In 2015, researchers in Siberia uncovered...
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A New Gene-Editing Technique Has Eliminated Acute HIV Infection in Living Animals
For the first time, researchers have used gene-editing to eliminate HIV DNA from the genomes of three different animal models to ensure that replication of the virus was completely shut down. The technique has been demonstrated in animals with both acute and latent HIV, and was successful in human immune...
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Watch drone footage of CERN's data centre
World class champion for drone freestyle driving and racing, Chad Nowak, came to CERN to record acrobatic footage. Watch this video to get a glimpse of the CERN data centre: the heart of CERN’s entire scientific, administrative, and computing infrastructure.
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Researchers cure diabetes in mice without side effects
Researchers at the University of Texas Health San Antonio report they have essentially cured type 1 diabetes in laboratory mice by using gene transfer. The discovery increases the types of pancreatic cells that secrete insulin, which represents a potential cure for type 1 diabetes and could end insulin dependence in...
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New CRISPR Technique Targets and Destroys Cancer’s Command Center
The past several months have been no less than astounding ones for the CRISPRgene-editing tool. In September, 2016, researchers in Germany discovered a way to use CRISPR to edit out cancer mutations. In November, Chinese researchers used CRISPR technology on a person for the first time. Then, in January if this year,...
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Electrode can tell you if a baby is really experiencing pain
When a baby’s crying, it can be difficult to know what’s wrong. Detecting brain signals could provide a more reliable way to tell if babies are in pain. “Babies can’t talk, so we need other ways to tell if they’re in pain,” says Rebeccah Slater, at the University of Oxford....
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Space Telescopes of the future
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That Crazy Plan to Refreeze the Arctic Is Actually Getting a Trial Run in Switzerland
Back in February, physicists announced an outlandish plan to ’re-freeze’ the Arctic, by installing 10 million wind-powered pumps over the ice cap to replenish the dwindling sea ice. The idea was so wild, no one actually thought it would happen, but researchers in Switzerland have just launched a trial that...
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Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 with NROL-76
SpaceX have successfully launched a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A today at 11:15 UTC, 07:15 Local time, May 1st 2017. The rocket placed the first payload SpaceX have launched for the National Reconnaissance Office simply known as NROL-76 into orbit. Nothing more is...
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Joint mission to Europa could seek life under the ice
It will take more than six years to get there. But if long-anticipated signs of life are found on Europa, a newly-proposed joint American-European trek to the enigmatic moon of Jupiter will have been worth it. Called the Joint Europa Mission, the proposal was unveiled on 24 April by Michel Blanc...
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6 Scientific Benefits of Playing Videogames
The jury is in – video games are not the mind-melting devil creations that your parents made them out to be. Not only can gaming be a whole lot of fun, but recent research has revealed there’s also a range of scientific benefits to playing videogames – everything from increasing...
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Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 Launch Webcast (Live Now)
SpaceX is targeting launch of Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 51-minute launch window opens on Monday, May 15, at 7:20 p.m. EDT, or 23:20 UTC. A backup launch window opens on Tuesday, May 16, at 7:20 p.m. EDT,...
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Earth’s forests grew 9% in a new satellite survey
The Age of Exploration may be long past, but even in the 21st century, our maps can still get a major update. Using satellite imagery, a new study has found hidden forests all over the world—almost enough for a second Amazon—in areas with little moisture known as drylands. Past estimates...
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Scientists Achieve Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication For The First Time
Quantum communication is a strange beast, but one of the weirdest proposed forms of it is called counterfactual communication - a type of quantum communication where no particles travel between two recipients. Theoretical physicists have long proposed that such a form of communication would be possible, but now, for...
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Boom! Supersonic Passenger Jet Coming by 2020
Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic has just partnered with startup Boom Technology to build a supersonic aircraft, Boom Technology announced. The plane would zip through the skies faster than the Concorde jet or any other commercial aircraft today, Boom Technology said. Aircraft that fly faster than the speed of sound...
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A Breakthrough in How We Treat Cancer Is on The Horizon
There’s been a push in the past few years to use genetic information to guide the treatment decisions of cancer patients. It’s something former President Barack Obama started tackling with his 2015 Precision Medicine Initiative. The excitement is logical: to treat cancer, it makes sense to have as much information as possible....
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We’d Need 1.7 Earths to Make Our Consumption Sustainable
President Donald Trump has acted on his campaign promises to reverse Obama’s environmental policies and proposed a budget that would significantly slash the Environmental Protection Agency’s funding in an effort to take federal responsibility out of environmental regulations. More recently, White House officials have met to discuss whether the United...
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NASA released its first incredible video of our closest look at Saturn yet
On April 26, the Cassini spacecraft flew closer to Saturn than ever before — between the gap that separates the planet from its rings.
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Gravitational waves could show hints of extra dimensions
Signatures of extra dimensions that don’t normally affect the four dimensions we can observe could show up in the way they warp ripples in space-time Hidden dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying gravitational waves – and spotting such signatures of extra dimensions could help solve some of the...
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Here’s how an asteroid impact would kill you
It won’t be a tsunami. Nor an earthquake. Not even the crushing impact of the space rock. No, if an asteroid kills you, gusting winds and shock waves from falling and exploding space rocks will most likely be to blame. That’s one of the conclusions of a recent computer simulation...
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Beautiful short film showing the progress of the Voyagers through our solar system
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Infrared telescope spots mystery flare-ups in distant galaxies
Some things that go bump in the night can only be seen with heat vision. SPRITEs, a new class of astronomical explosion, may be showing us never-before-seen phases in the lives and deaths of stars. SPRITEs, short for “eSPecially Red Intermediate-luminosity Transient Events”, are undetectable in visible light. They were...
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Martian Soil Can Be Compressed Into Bricks Stronger Than Concrete
We can make bricks out of the red dirt on Mars, and they’ll be stronger than steel-reinforced concrete. Scientists from the University of California have made a brick-like rock from the closest thing to Martian soil – a simulant they created and named Mars-1a. Compressing the soil at high pressures forced...
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First look at images from Cassini’s dive between Saturn’s rings
We’re getting up close and personal with Saturn. These are the first images of the planet taken as the Cassini spacecraft made the first of its 22 planned dives between its rings. The first dive, which began on 26 April, takes Cassini closer than any spacecraft has been before. These Grand Finale...
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