A YouTuber shared a video last week in which he claimed that a shape-shifting UFO has been spotted in the Colombian sky. Later the same video was shared by a prominent conspiracy theorist Scott C Waring.
READ MOREHuman skin contains sensitive nerve cells that detect pressure, temperature and other sensations that allow tactile interactions with the environment. To help robots and prosthetic devices attain these abilities, scientists are trying to develop electronic skins. Now researchers report a new method in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that creates an ultrathin, stretchable electronic skin, which could be used for a variety of human-machine interactions.
READ MOREPeacock spiders keep dancing their way into our hearts. They’re tiny, they’re colourful, they’re fluffy and they have killer moves.
READ MOREResearchers have mapped light emitted by tendrils of gas that are strung between galaxies
READ MOREForty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s icy surface, which give Europa the look of a veiny eyeball. Missions to the outer solar system in the decades since have amassed enough additional information about Europa to make it a high-priority target of investigation in NASA’s search for life.
READ MOREAlthough the UFO news is currently talking up the latest Pentagon admission of the validity of those pesky videos that were released over two years ago, they are still in the “we don’t know what these are” phase of public discourse.
READ MORE