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MIT Just Created Living Plants That Glow Like A Lamp, And Could Grow Glowing Trees To Replace Streetlights

on October 12, 2018

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A Meteor Just Exploded Over Cuba With the Energy of 1,400 Tons of TNT

Last week, local media reports indicated that a meteorite hit the Cuban town of Viñales after soaring across the Florida Keys, with residents reporting hearing a massive sonic boom as well as seeing a trail in the sky. The event was apparently picked up by the National Weather Service Key West’s radar some 26,000 feet off the ground, as well as caught on film by locals and a webcam in Ft. Myer connected to EarthCam.

Now we know just how powerful that event was. According to new data posted by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies and flagged by CNET, the object’s collision with the atmosphere released the energy of around 1.4 kilotons (1,400 tons) of TNT.
That may sound like a lot (and it is). But such events are relatively common, just usually pass without much fanfare. Roughly 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and humans are far from equally distributed over its land, meaning that many impacts go with few or no human eyewitnesse…

Nearly Frozen Waves Captured On Camera By Nantucket Photographer

Photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh found himself staring at an ocean full of Slurpee. The waters of the Atlantic Ocean looked like it due to the unusually cold temperatures that were making it freeze. Lakes freeze every year, but oceans freezing is a rare sight.

The photographer/surfer/ocean enthusiast set out to capture the beauty of this rare event. While the partially-frozen waves churned and hit the shore, they appeared to be made out of something thicker than water. Jonathan describes the sight as follows, “The wind was howling from the southwest which would typically make rough or choppy conditions, not so good for surfing. But since the surface of the sea was frozen slush, the wind did not change the shape. They were perfect dreamy slush waves.” The pictures below show this bizarre phenomenon.
They were a strange, thick consistency.

Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years in Siberian Permafrost Wriggle to Life

Did you ever wake up from a long nap feeling a little disoriented, not quite knowing where you were? Now, imagine getting a wake-up call after being "asleep" for 42,000 years. In Siberia, melting permafrost is releasing nematodes — microscopic worms that live in soil — that have been suspended in a deep freeze since the Pleistocene. Despite being frozen for tens of thousands of years, two species of these worms were successfully revived, scientists recently reported in a new study.

Their findings, published in the May 2018 issue of the journal Doklady Biological Sciences, represent the first evidence of multicellular organisms returning to life after a long-term slumber in Arctic permafrost, the researchers wrote.
Though nematodes are tiny — typically measuring about 1 millimeter in length — they are known to possess impressive abilities. Some are found living 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers) below Earth's surface, deeper than any other multicellular animal. Certain worms that …

A Thermometer Just Broke At -62°C (-80°F) In The World’s Coldest Village, And The Photos Are Breathtaking

Welcome to Oymyakon, a village where students are expected to attend class till temperatures reach minus -52°C (-62°F). The remote Siberian village is considered to be the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world, and it has just plummeted into a -62°C (-80°F) winter, making our daily complaints about the weather sound rather silly.

We already introduced you this place when a photographer Amos Chapple traveled there to brave the freeze. “I was wearing thin trousers when I first stepped outside into -47°C (-52°F),” Chapple said. “I remember feeling like the cold was physically gripping my legs, the other surprise was that occasionally my saliva would freeze into needles that would prick my lips.”

This time, however, the cold is even stronger, not only gripping legs but turning people’s eyelashes into icicles as well. The official weather station at the ‘pole of cold’ registered -59°C (-74°F), but the new electronic thermometer claimed the weather was -62°C (-80°F). In fact, …

The Door to Hell: A Giant Hole in the Desert Which Has Been Burning for 48 Years

The Door to Hell is a real place. It's not located in your ex-boyfriend's apartment building; it's in Turkmenistan. The name isn't literal, of course, but one look at this giant, burning desert crater of flames might have you second-guessing.

Haunted houses and creepy basements are one thing, but the scare factor is taken to a new level near the village of Derweze in the middle of the Karakum Desert. The Darvaza gas crater, aptly nicknamed by locals "The Door to Hell" or "The Gates of Hell," is a burning crater that stretches 230 feet across and reaches 65 feet deep. Satan's swimming pool has been engulfed in flames since 1971.

Here's the story: Back in the early '70s when Turkmenistan was part of the Soviet Union, some Soviet geologists trekked out into the Karakum in search of oil. They started drilling, and that's when things went south. Unbeknownst to them, the team and their equipment were sitting atop a huge underground pocket of…

Albino Baby Turtle Born With Its Heart OUTSIDE Its Body Has Survived

An albino baby turtle born with its heart beating outside its body has defied all the odds and appears to be thriving despite its disadvantages. The tiny reptile, known as Hope, has such a rare condition that the condition has not yet been named in veterinary medicine. A similar condition in humans is dubbed ectopia cordis and affects about one in 126,000 births.

Owner Mike Aquilina - known as AquaMike on Instagram - looks after the Albino Pinkbelly Sideneck at his home in New Jersey. He received Hope from his friend Gerard, a US turtle breeder.
Mr Aquilina, 29, said: 'Hope has impacted my life in so many ways it actually makes me emotional.
'She's so small and so fragile, the most delicate thing but she's fearless. People can see that and she's got so many people rooting for her around the world. She's spreading hope while also giving me hope. Hope has changed my life for the better in such a short amount of time.'

Hope's guardian has no guidance to follow…

Astronomers Detect Strange Star Signals That Are "Probably" Aliens Making Contact

A recent study published by two Canadian astronomers, claims an anomaly in the pulsing of a collection of stars is probably proof of an alien civilization. There can be several other explanations for this signal but the researchers really do consider an extraterrestrial connection as one of the potential reaons to what they’ve practical.
The researchers Ermanno Borra and Eric Trottier from the Université Laval in Quebec examined variations in 2.5 million stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey project and determined that 234 of them showed abnormal behavior. Actually, the stars appeared to be signaling, with the possible reason that its aliens trying to make contact. This theory was boosted by the deductionthat the 234 signals perfectly accorded with the shape of an extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) signal, projected by Borra’s earlier study.
Researcher were baffled after learning that 234 stars out of 2.5 million release a very precise signal, something that fits perfectly into prev…

Beam Me Up, Scientists Discover Possible Evidence That We Are Living In A Parallel Universe

I'd just like to take this opportunity to say hello to the infinite number of other James Dawsons who are at this very moment gearing up to blow the infinite number of minds of the infinite number of LADbible readers. I say this because, according to science, there are an infinite number of parallel universes that contain infinite versions of ourselves.

Woah, man, woah.
It might sound like the kind of thing you think about after you've taken a bong hit, but apparently in one universe you might be Prime Minister, while in another you could be made of Nutella and at this very moment be facing the prospect of being spread onto a pancake.

In the science community, this is known as the theory of the 'multiverse', and a new study has found that a mysterious 'Cold Spot' in space could prove our universe is just one of an everlasting string of realities.
The Cold Spot was formed when the universe formed more than 13 billion years ago. It was first spotted by NASA's WMA…

New Research Suggest Andromeda And Milky Way Galaxies Are Already Touching, Might Collide Sooner Than We Think

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy won’t collide for next 4 billion years. But but a recent discovery of a massive halo of hot gas close to Andromeda Galaxy may mean that our galaxies are already touching. Astrophysicist Nicholas Lehner from University of Notre Dame, led a group of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope to detect an enormous halo of hot, ionized gas about 2 million light years in diameter around the galaxy.
The Andromeda Galaxy and Milky Way are the largest member of a ragtag group of some 54 galaxies, called the Local Group. Andromeda, with almost a trillion stars — twice as many as the Milky Way — shines 25% brighter and can simply be seen with the naked eye from outlying and rural skies.

If the recently discovered halo spreads at least a million light years in our direction, our two galaxies are way MUCH closer to touching than previously thought.
Lehner defines halos as the “gaseous atmospheres of galaxies”.Regardless of its huge size, Andromeda’s nimbus is almo…

Bionic Contacts: Goodbye Glasses. Hello Vision That’s 3x Better Than 20/20

According to the World Health Organization, almost 285 million people worldwide have vision problems. For many people around the globe, simply seeing is a struggle. According to the National Eye Institute more than half of all Americans will have cataracts at some point in their life and it is the the leading cause of blindness. But that may soon change because people with vision problems may have new hope.

Ocumetics Bionic Lens are invented by Dr. Garth Webb. You can learn more about how it works and more in the video below.

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