Latest Posts

Volcanic Activity on Ancient Mars May Have Produced Organic Life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2017
New research suggests that active volcanoes on the Red Planet could have created an environment habitable to ancient microbes.

By David Aragorn
First ‘image’ of a dark matter web that connects galaxies 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 19, 2017
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to capture the first composite image of a dark matter bridge that connects galaxies together. The scientists publish their work in a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

By David Aragorn
Researchers link robots into surveillance teams 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 19, 2017
If you were monitoring a security camera and saw someone set down a backpack and walk away, you might pay special attention – especially if you had been alerted to watch that particular person. According to Cornell researchers, this might be a job robots could do better than humans, by communicating at the speed of light and sharing images.

By David Aragorn
The Mystery of How Black Holes Collide and Merge Is Beginning to Unravel 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2017
A new study pursues a kind of “paleontology” for gravitational waves in an attempt to explain how and why black holes collide and merge.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Are Getting Closer to Understanding Where All the Antimatter Has Gone 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 18, 2017
You and me, we’re matter. Everyone you know is matter. Everything on Earth, spare a few particles, is matter. Most of the things in space are matter. But we don’t have convincing reasons why there should be so much more matter than antimatter. So where’s all the antimatter?

By David Aragorn
Scientists make progress on unravelling the puzzle of merging black holes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 18, 2017
Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have made progress in understanding a key mystery of gravitational-wave astrophysics: how two black holes can come together and merge.

By David Aragorn
The Surface of Saturn’s Titan is Electrically Charged –“It’s a Strange, Electrostatically Sticky World”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2017
“Titan’s extreme physical environment requires scientists to think differently about what we’ve learned of Earth’s granular dynamics,” said Josef Dufek, with the Georgia Institute of Technology. “Landforms are influenced by forces that aren’t intuitive to us because those forces aren’t so important on Earth. Titan is a strange, electrostatically sticky world.” Visually, Titan is the

By David Aragorn
Scientists Witnessed DNA Protecting Itself From Radiation 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 14, 2017
DNA protects itself from damage naturally, and scientists are hoping to gain insight into how the process works in order to achieve breakthrough treatments for cancer and other diseases that arise from the breakage and mutation of DNA.

By David Aragorn
Mars’s atmosphere hosts metal layers that shouldn’t exist 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2017
Mars’s atmosphere harbours a layer of electrically charged metal atoms, and they’re not behaving as expected.

By David Aragorn
These May Be the Deepest Traces of Life on Earth 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- April 14, 2017
A hidden ecosystem seems to lurk six miles below the Mariana Trench, offering clues for finding life across the solar system.

By David Aragorn

Featured Video

Top Authors

CONTRIBUTOR

ADMINISTRATOR

FORMER_PUBLISHER

CONTRIBUTOR