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With a single image, scientists changed our understanding of the Sun forever
Astronomers have been staring at the Sun for decades but only recently have they been able…
Spotting elephants from space: A satellite revolution
Using the highest resolution satellite imagery currently available—Worldview 3—from Maxar Technologies and deep learning, (TensorFlow API,…
There Used to Be Aliens in Our Galaxy, but They Killed Themselves Off
ETs have a thing for self-annihilation. At leat that might be the grim conclusion… Read more…
Tardigrades may have taken over the Moon
There’s live on the Moon!!! At least since 2019 when Israeli Beresheet spacecraft crash-landed on the…
Artificial intelligence solves Schrödinger’s equation
A team of scientists at Freie Universität Berlin has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) method for…
Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri
Strange radio transmissions appear to be coming from our nearest star system; now scientists are trying…
Newly discovered Jupiter-like world could be the long-sought ‘Planet X’
When the Hubble Space Telescope set its sights toward the binary star system HD 106906, astronomers…
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations
The arxiv database used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of…
Somehow, a Monstrous Supermassive Black Hole Has Gone Missing
The Universe is full of galaxy clusters, but Abell 2261 is in a class of its…
Scientists think they’ve detected radio emissions from an alien world
Scientists used a radio telescope in the netherlands to study three different stars known to host…
Shock test in boy, 4, could rewrite coronavirus timeline
A university in Italy claims to have found evidence of the first case of coronavirus one…
Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe
Physicists give us an early view of a third kingdom of quasiparticles that only arise in…
NASA’s new Hubble images will blow your mind
NASA just released a treasure trove of cosmic imagery. Read more at Mashable ME…
MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in landmark pilot trial
In the late 1970s and early 1980s MDMA was often utilized to help facilitate positive results…
After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer’s cipher has been solved by amateur code breakers
More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern…
Scientists Devise a Method to Edit Mitochondrial DNA. Here’s How It Works and Why It Matters
There’s a mini second genome inside your cells, but no one could figure out how to…
Farmer fish become first animal found domesticating another species
Human civilization wouldn’t be where it is today if we hadn’t domesticated animals to be either…
Mathematician Solves Centuries-Old Grazing Goat Problem Exactly
Mathematicians and math enthusiasts have been pondering this problem in various forms for more than 270…
Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe
Guellati-khélifa gauges the fine-structure constant by measuring how strongly rubidium atoms recoil when they absorb a…