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The Sun Will Die And Turn Into A White Dwarf In 5 Billion Years From Now

Stars are born, live and die, and our Sun is in the middle of its life right now. When it dies, it will begin to swell and then expel its gaseous matter into space, until only a small, cold, dead…

June 24, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Humans Could Inhabit Moons, Not Just Planets

Until now, we’ve only heard of one planet harboring life: Planet Earth. But we’ve all asked ourselves if there is a planet like ours somewhere in space. A new study suggests that we should also consider moons as a good…

June 23, 2018 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Mysterious Extinct Ape Unearthed From A 2,300-Year-Old Ancient Chinese Tomb

Scientists unearthed the remains of an unknown mysterious extinct ape from a 2,300-year-old ancient Chinese tomb recently, as reported by BBC. The fossilized bones indicate that the mysterious ape, which still puzzles the scientists, was a gibbon monkey species. They called…

June 22, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

World’s First Known Baby Manta Rays Nursery Discovered By Scientists

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, USA, in cooperation with NOAA, has examined and described the world’s first known baby manta rays nursery. The nursery was found in the Gulf of Mexico, in the…

June 22, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Einstein’s Theory Of General Relativity Confirmed On A Galactic Scale

More than a century after Albert Einstein postulated the theory of general relativity, the astronomers, helped by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), have made it possible to accurately test Einstein’s most famous theory outside the Solar System.…

June 22, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

There Is No Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilization In The Visible Universe, A New Model Predicts

For the search for an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, the Fermi Paradox is still one significant obstacle. According to Enrico Fermi, a renowned Italian physicist, the paradox addresses the discrepancy between the chances that the extraterrestrial intelligence is abundant in the…

June 22, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Deep Learning Algorithm Developed By Baidu For Tumor Detection Is Much Faster And More Accurate

Baidu has presented a new artificial intelligence, a deep learning algorithm capable of tumor detection much better than a human. In fact, the algorithm, which is also open source so that it can be used by others, will help human…

June 21, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Ancient Fish Reconstructed By Australian Scientists Starting From 400-Million-Year-Old Fossils

Australian paleontologists reconstructed an ancient fish starting from its 400 million-year-old fossils found at Lake Burrinjuck dam, at the head of the Murrumbidgee River, north of Brindabellas, in New South Wales. This prehistoric Australian fish belonged to the placoderms group, a…

June 21, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Missing Part Of Ordinary Matter (Baryons) Found By Scientists In The Space Between Galaxies

Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder discovered the missing part of ordinary matter within the space between galaxies. Baryons, commonly known as ordinary matter, exist in every physical object. In fact, baryons are the matter that everything in…

June 21, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Stonehenge Constructors Applied Pythagoras’ Theorem 2,000 Years Before It Was Postulated

Stonehenge is an ancient monument built somewhen between 3000 BC and 2000 BC in Wiltshire, England, UK. The mystery has always surrounded this monument which is part of a vaster network of Neolithic monuments spread on the British territory. In Megalith, a new…

June 21, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

A Recent Meteorite Impact On Mars Caused An Avalanche Of Martian Dust

NASA has photographed the stunning view of a recent meteorite impact on Mars which caused an avalanche of Martian dust. NASA officials explained that the meteorite hit Mars somewhen within the last 10 years, but most probably the event took…

June 20, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Ancient Sea Creature Discovered By Scientists, Named After President Barack Obama

The recently discovered ancient sea creature lived 500 million years ago in the Earth’s oceans. The scientists from the University of California-Riverside, who found this old marine creature, named it after President Barack Obama, honoring the former President’s passion for science.…

June 20, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

“DNA Printer,” A Revolutionary DNA Synthesis Technique, Developed At The UC Berkeley

Scientists at the prestigious University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have designed a new way to create DNA sequences on demand that promises to be faster, cheaper and more accurate than the regular DNA synthesis technique used so far in…

June 19, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Took A Break From Work To Take A Selfie During The Dust Storm On Mars

The most massive dust storm on Mars ever observed to date, the same on which took out the NASA’s Opportunity Rover, is now moving towards the side of the planet where the other Mars rover, NASA’s Curiosity Rover, is studying…

June 19, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Devouring A Star, Spotted By Astronomers With ESA’s XMM-Newton Observatory

Scientists witnessed a rare and hard-to-observe phenomenon – an intermediate-mass black hole devouring a star. The observations were made by a team of astronomers using the data gathered by the ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory, the NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and Swift X-Ray…

June 19, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0