Showing posts from May, 2019
With the death of Tam, the last male Sumatran rhino in Malaysia, another nail has been hammered into the species' coffin. Now, only one female Sumatran rhino named Iman remains in the country, ending efforts to produce offspring. Tam …
Don't freak out, but you probably have a few dozen arachnids grinding up on the tiny shafts of hair lodged inside your face, quietly gorging themselves on your natural oils. OK, you can freak out if you want. But there's nothing wrong…
A new Filipino law requires all graduating high school and college students to plant at least 10 trees each before they can graduate. The law formalises a tradition of planting trees upon graduation, which is also hoped to simultaneously combat…
The Solar System might be a soggier place than we previously thought - even in the glacially cold reaches of the Kuiper Belt. There, dwarf planet Pluto could be harbouring liquid oceans under a shell of nitrogen ice. It was thought that the…
Gifs are short, silent animations. Unlike videos, they carry no sound files within them. Which is why it's extremely odd that a lot of people online claim to be able to hear one. Does anyone in visual perception know why you can hear t…
Our universe is huge and some parts are very old and if we somehow happen to live on a planet that’s fairly young, aliens must also exist somewhere. But where the hell are they? Kurz Gesagt tries to find an answer in this beautiful animation ex…
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 The Space Academy readers. I say this be…
If you grew up in America, you've probably used Arabic numerals pretty much every day of your life in some way. Same if you're English, French, or from most other countries. Even in China and Japan, where other numerals are used ( 零 ,Y…
Image Credit:- courtesy of Heikka Valja We all know that magnets always have two poles, South Pole and North Pole even if you cut it into pieces very single piece will have two poles. Paul Dirac in 1931 predicted “Magnetic monopoles”. In pa…
The ultimate goal of physics is to create a single equation which can be applied anywhere in the universe. It is quite sure that we are not there yet and there is a long journey ahead of humankind to achieve that ultimate goal of physics. During th…
NASA is requesting an additional $1.6 billion in funding for next year to accelerate its manned mission to the Moon by 2024, which the agency revealed will be titled Artemis, the New York Times reported on Monday. Per CNN , NASA emphasize…
NASA has unveiled the dream job for lazy buggers - lying in bed for a couple of months and getting paid €16,500 (£14,177) for your efforts. Not bad, eh? The space agency, working in partnership with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) is looking …
On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a Texas investor found something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: litter. Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, made the unsettling discovery as…
Stunning high-definition photographs of the far side of the Moon have been captured by China's lunar rover, Yutu-2. The images show the dusty lunar terrain pitted with craters, tracks made by Yutu-2 after descent from the Chang'e-4 la…
Deforestation is a recurrent problem in practically the entire world. Recovering the damage done in recent years as a result of large industries and land depredated for agriculture and livestock is a difficult task. But Thailand believes it has f…
A flightless bird that became extinct when its home island became flooded by the sea "came back to life" when a similar species evolved in the same location, scientists have discovered. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth an…
A 12-year-old schoolgirl has been accepted into Mensa International after learning she is more intelligent than both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Olivia Manning, from Liverpool, succeeded to get a massive score in an IQ test of 162 - we…
Oops — humans did it again. Not one, but two subspecies of giraffes have been added to a list of endangered animals. This means that they are under threat of extinction, and it is largely due to human activity in their habitats. According to a ne…
When wildlife photographer Brent Cizek bought a small plastic boat last winter, he was hoping to ply the lakes of northern Minnesota and capture the most intimate scenes of animals in their natural environment. He had no idea how intimate he wou…
As the planet warms, the mass of Earth will be redistributed and cause the planet to rotate faster, adding to the plethora of challenges global warming threatens. Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere heats up the globe, and as a…
Earth is not flat but the universe is. Below in the video Physics Girl explains how the universe is flat.
It's big news, set to shock, amaze, and entertain the world. But unfortunately, it's got nothing to do with extraterrestrial stoners melding with Earth's plants. However, since you're now reading, you'll almost certainly …
Nuclear weapons are, no doubt, scary and deadly but when you try to dig deeper and search for how destructive these weapons truly are, they get even more frightening. The nuclear weapons we’ve made after the first atomic bombs are so powerful …
Neil deGrasse Tyson is known for his excellent research as an astrophysicist, publishing several works on both science and spirituality. While he openly claims to be agnostic, putting most of his faith in the universe, a recent interview may b…
A black hole with millions of times more mass than the sun is hurtling towards Earth and will one day wipe out life as we know it. The black hole is speeding towards us at 110 kilometres per second and is at the centre of the Andromeda Galax…
