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For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Have Detected Planets Outside Our Galaxy

on February 06, 2018

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SpaceX's Biggest Rocket Ever Is About to Launch Elon Musk's Red Tesla to Mars

on February 06, 2018

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NASA Makes Contact With Satellite Thought Lost 13 Years Ago

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A Massive Object Devastated Uranus A Long Time Ago And It Never Fully Recovered

Our Solar System is a pretty calm place these days, all things considered, but that wasn’t always the case. In the period when the planets were still forming, collisions between various large bodies were common, and they ultimately helped shape the system that we see today. New research shows that Uranus, a chilly, hostile planet with a number of peculiar features, was the victim of a devastating impact during those early years, and it might explain some of the planet’s strange personality.

Uranus moves much differently than the other planets in our Solar System, spinning on its side in comparison to the rest of the worlds in our neighborhood. Astronomers have often wondered just how this happened, but simulations performed by scientists at Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology might have finally produced the answer.
“We ran more than 50 different impact scenarios using a high-powered super computer to see if we could recreate the conditions that shaped the planet’s …

According to Einstein Time is an Illusion, and Here is the Proof

Time is actually relative, and flexible and, according to Albert Einstein himself, "the dividing line between past, present, and future is an illusion". Below in the video Prof. Brian Greene explains this concepts beautifully…. So watch and learn.

80-Year-Old Man Hasn’t Watered This Sealed Bottle Garden Since 1972 And It’s Still Alive

In a beautiful example of a closed but functional ecosystem, David Latimer has grown a garden sealed inside a giant glass bottle that he has only opened once since he started it almost 60 years ago. Latimer planted the terrarium garden on Easter Sunday in 1960. He placed some compost and a quarter pint of water into a 10-gallon glass carboy and inserted a spiderwort sprout, which is not typically an indoor plant, using wires.
In 1972, he opened the plant terrarium again to add a bit of water. With that one exception, the garden has remained sealed – all it needs is plenty of sunlight!
It might seem strange to some that a sealed terrarium plants garden would thrive like this, but it’s not – the garden is a perfectly self-sufficient ecosystem.
The bacteria in the compost eats the dead plants and break down the oxygen given off by the plants, turning it into the carbon dioxide for photosynthesis that the plants need to survive. The bottle is an excellent micro version of the earth as a w…

Breaking: Scientists Have Reversed Time with a Quantum Computer

Time: it's constantly running out and we never have enough of it. Some say it’s an illusion, some say it flies like an arrow. Well, this arrow of time is a big headache in physics. Why does time have a particular direction? And can such a direction be reversed?
A new study, published in Scientific Reports, is providing an important point of discussion on the subject. An international team of researchers has constructed a time-reversal program on a quantum computer, in an experiment that has huge implications for our understanding of quantum computing. Their approach also revealed something rather important: the time-reversal operation is so complex that it is extremely improbable, maybe impossible, for it to happen spontaneously in nature. As far as laws of physics go, in many cases, there’s nothing to stop us going forward and backward in time. In certain quantum systems it is possible to create a time-reversal operation. Here, the team crafted a thought experiment based on a real…

Praying Mantis Perfectly Preserved In Amber Was Between 23-34 Million Years Old

There is an incredible natural process in which insects and even animals can become entombed in tree sap that eventually becomes amber, keeping them frozen in time forever. This real phenomenon was highlighted and popularized by the blockbuster film Jurassic Park, where a scientist character was able to extract dinosaur blood from mosquitos that were trapped in amber.

In 2016, a small praying mantis that was perfectly intact in a piece of amber was sold through Heritage Auctions for $6,000. The incredible piece was discovered somewhere in the Dominican Republic. Heritage Auctions estimates that this piece dates back to the Oligocene period, which means that it is anywhere between 23 million and 33.9 million years old.

According to the auction description from a similar sale:

“This present specimen boasts one of the rarest and most sought after of all inclusions; the Praying Mantis. When found at all, these ferocious insects are usually distorted or lacking limbs due to their fearful str…

Meet A 12 Year Old Who Built A Nuclear Reactor In His Playroom

Fourteen-year-old Jackson Oswalt, a native of Memphis, is a seemingly mundane eighth-grade school goer in most ways. He hangs around with his buddies, enjoys going to school, and plays video games here and there. But it is what he sometimes does at home that is far from mundane: he loves working on the nuclear reactor he built at his home from the time he was just twelve years old.

He embarked on this journey of learning about nuclear science when he came across the story of Taylor Wilson, another fourteen-year-old teen who also built a nuclear reactor in the garage of his residence in the year 2008, in Reno, in the state of Nevada. This achievement made Taylor the youngest ever person to accomplish nuclear fusion. His work earned him commendations and awards. In fact, he was also visited by former President of The United States, Barrack Obama. Taylor Wilson, who is now aged 24, is engaged in research in order to amend and render nuclear fusion additionally competent.
Taylor Wilson was …

NASA Scientists Make GROUNDBREAKING Discovery - ‘Nothing Like This Has EVER Been Captured’

NASA researchers caught a new glimpse of Ultima Thule as one of their spacecraft flew past the distant object. Located four billion miles from Earth, scientists at NASA may have to re-evaluate not just the shape of the object itself but also their understanding of planets. The event was hailed as rare by Alan Stern, principal investigator on the New Horizons mission.

He said: “Nothing quite like this has ever been captured in imagery.
“We've never seen something like this orbiting the Sun."
New Horizons project scientist, Hal Weaver added: “This will undoubtedly motivate new theories of planetesimal formation in the early solar system.”
Originally described as being like a snowman, the new images show it to be more like two pancakes. It was called the snowman as Ultima Thule resembled two spheres sitting on top of each other but those have now been defunct due to the new images. Mr Stern said: “We had an impression of Ultima Thule based on the limited number of images returned in…

UK Put a Black Hole on a 50p Coin to Honour Stephen Hawking, And It Looks Stunning

It's been a year since the renowned and profoundly influential physicist Stephen Hawking passed away, and the Royal Mint has honoured his legacy in the form of a new commemorative 50 pence coin.

If you've ever been concerned that British currency doesn't feature enough astrophysical equations, we have good news. Although the collector's item, sold on the Royal Mint website, won't be released into circulation, the stunning coin displays the formula describing a black hole's entropy.
Rather than featuring a portrait of the scientist himself, the designer went for something far more abstract, and yet something Stephen Hawking, who had a great sense of humour, would hopefully have approved of.
"I wanted to fit a big black hole on the tiny coin and wish he was still here chortling at the thought," engraver Edwina Ellis told the BBC.

NASA: Meteor Exploded Over Russia With 10x Energy of Atomic Bomb

A meteor caused a massive explosion in Earth’s atmosphere in December 2018, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). The fireball was so powerful that it released ten times the energy of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, BBC reports.
The explosion occurred over the Bering Sea, off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula — an area so remote that no observers apparently saw or reported the blast. However, it was spotted by Japan’s Himawari satellite. The U.S. Air Force also noticed the event, and notified NASA. The fireball descended through Earth’s atmosphere at a blistering 32 kilometers per second. The explosion occurred 15 miles (25.6 km) above the surface and released 173 kilotons of energy. The Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 exploded with the energy of 15 kilotons — enough force to turn most of downtown Washington, DC into rubble and severely damage concrete buildings, according to the Washington Post. It’s not the most powerful meteor blast JPL has record…

Flat Earthers Spend $20,000 Trying To Prove Earth Is Flat, Accidentally Prove It's Round

In what may be one of the most satisfying TV moments we can recall, a group of conspiracy theorists have accidentally spent thousands of dollars to prove that yes, actually, the Earth is round. The scene in a new Netflix documentary called Behind the Curve, which follows a group of Flat Earthers, a "small but growing contingent of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is flat".
One of those Flat Earthers is Bob Knodel, who hosts a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to the theory and who is one of the team relying on a $20,000 laser gyroscope to prove the Earth doesn't actually rotate. Except... It does. "What we found is, when we turned on that gyroscope, we found that we were picking up a drift," Knodel explains. "A 15-degree per hour drift. "Now, obviously we were taken aback by that - 'Wow, that's kind of a problem.' "We obviously were not willing to accept that, and so we started looking for easy…

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