NASA announced that it is putting together an independent team of researchers this fall to study sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, the updated term now used to refer to UFOs. The space agency […]
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Eavesdropping on the Brain With 10,000 Electrodes
Thanks to advances in neuroscience and microelectronics engineering, we finally have a tool that will let us begin to reverse engineer the wonders of the brain. People often think of technology as applied science, but […]
How to Make the Universe Think for Us
Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors. When it comes to conventional machine learning, computer scientists have […]
The Incredible Life of Maria Sibylla Merian
In the jungle of Suriname, the German-born Swiss naturalist, entomologist and botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian discovered insect metamorphosis. This animation celebrates her many notable contributions to the natural sciences in an age when such […]
Turning Back the Clock
Imagine if we could turn back the clock on age-related illnesses by reprogramming our cells to be younger? In a recent Nature Aging paper, Genentech and Salk Institute scientists show that cellular reprogramming techniques safely […]
Algae Grown by an Artificial Intelligence Could Broduce ‘Clean’ Fuel for Jets
Researchers at Texas A&M believe that algal biofuels could reduce carbon emissions, mitigate climate change, alleviate petroleum dependency and transform the bio-economy. Professor Joshua Yuan said: “The commercialisation of algal biofuel has been hindered by […]
Footage of Hypersonic Metallic UFO Shown by Pentagon Officials at Historic Hearing
UFO sightings are “frequent and continuing,” Pentagon officials said at the first public hearing on the subject since the 1960s. Pentagon officials speaking at the first public hearing on UFOs since the 1960s have shown […]
Researchers Use Algae to Power a Computer for Months
The experiment suggests that cyanobacteria ‘batteries’ using sunlight and water could run small devices. Researchers have discovered how to use cyanobacteria—commonly called blue-green algae—to continuously power a microprocessor for a span of more than six […]
The First Photo of the Milky Way’s Monster Black Hole Sagittarius A*
The Event Horizon Telescope has captured a historic first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The image, which was taken in the light of submillimeter radio waves, confirms that […]
Hologram Doctors Beamed to Space Station to Visit Astronauts
In 2021, a team of hologram doctors was “holoported” to space to visit astronauts living aboard the International Space Station, NASA has revealed in a new post. The hologram teams, led by NASA flight surgeon […]
Ferrofluid: The Spectacular Sight of Magnets Meeting Metallic Liquid
Phenomena fuses art and science together to explore naturally occurring patterns, and the fundamental forces of nature that create them, to take us on an ambitious, innovative, and psychedelic journey through the fabric of the […]
The Creator of the CRISPR Babies Has Been Released from a Chinese Prison
He Jiankui created the first gene-edited children. The price was his career. And his freedom. The daring Chinese biophysicist who created the world’s first gene-edited children has been set free after three years in a […]
James Webb Teams Successfully Align Mirror
On March 16, NASA announced that one of the most critical steps in the commissioning process had been completed — the alignment of all 18 individual mirrors on James Webb’s primary mirror. Meanwhile, as optics […]
How Believers in the Paranormal Birthed the Pentagon’s New Hunt for UFOs
The Pentagon’s new office for what has been rebranded as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, has deep roots in the paranormal. Underneath the Washington defense talk about threats from China and Russia, there is a […]
The De-extinction of the Tasmanian Wolf is Brought One Step Closer
The University of Melbourne is establishing a world-class research lab for de-extinction and marsupial conservation science. The Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research (TIGRR) Lab, led by Professor Andrew Pask, which will develop technologies that could […]
Researchers Create Molecule That Can Pave Way for Mini-Transistors
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in developing a simple hydrocarbon molecule with a logic gate function, similar to that in transistors, in a single molecule. The discovery could make electric components on […]
Jacques Vallée Still Doesn’t Know What UFOs Are
After six globe-trotting decades spent probing “the phenomenon,” the French information scientist is sure of only one thing: The truth is really, really out there. Vallée has written 12 books on what he and others […]
Pivotal Mental States
The idea that adversity presents us with an opportunity for change is familiar to all of us in the form of a story. We have all heard stories of sudden self-transformation, or what the US […]
Why Are Letters Shaped the Way They Are?
Linguistic games and research are revealing a hidden connection between what words look and sound like, and what they mean. n the Cratylus Dialogue, written by Plato, Socrates confronted this same linguistic dilemma: do names […]
Scientists Create Full Spectrum Cannabis Without the Plant
Canadian and Israeli company BioHarvest Sciences has announced the successful production of 22 pounds of fully viable cannabis biomass without actually growing the plant. This first-of-its-kind achievement comes only weeks after the same company added […]
Researchers Getting Better at Regenerating Lab Animals’ Limbs
Regrowing human limbs is a much bigger challenge, but some researchers think they’ll live to see it. Like humans, African clawed frogs can’t regrow missing limbs — yet. Scientists have gotten frogs with amputated legs […]
New Virus-Like Particles Can Deliver CRISPR to Any Cell in the Body
This month, a team at Harvard led by Dr. David Liu launched a new generation of molecular carriers inspired by viruses. This month, a team at Harvard led by Dr. David Liu launched a new […]
Irish Scientists Develop Low-Cost Way to Produce Graphene
Researchers created a biocompatible graphene ink and used household printers to make electronic components. Scientists in Ireland have developed a new low-cost method to produce graphene, which could accelerate adoption of the strong and light […]
James Webb Space Telescope Arrives at New Home in Space
After traveling almost a million miles, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reached its final destination yesterday. The most powerful observatory ever to launch to space, the James Webb Space Telescope lifted off on Dec. 25, […]
Astronomers Just Mapped The ‘Bubble’ That Traps Our Planet
Astronomers have discovered that a 1000-light-year-wide “Local Bubble” surrounding the Sun and Earth is responsible for the formation of all nearby, young stars. The study reveals that Earth and all of the stars and star-forming […]
Spectacular Space Missions to Look Forward to in 2022
Astronomers ended 2021 on a high with the launch on December 25 of the James Webb Space Telescope, but what else lies in store for space science this year? NASA’s Artemis program to send human […]
NASA Turns to Religious Scholars to Prepare Humanity for Alien Contact
A priest, a rabbi and an imam are among theologians hired by NASA to examine how the world would react if life beyond earth was found on other planets. The US space agency NASA has […]
The 10 Strangest Space Structures Discovered in 2021
As a reminder that the universe just gets stranger and stranger the farther you get from Earth, here are 10 of the most awesome, extreme and enigmatic space structures discovered in 2021. This year, scientists […]
The Ultimate Guide to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope will probe the cosmos to uncover the history of the universe from the Big Bang to alien planet formation and beyond. It is one of NASA’s Great Observatories, […]
The Universe Can Bend the Laws of Physics All By Itself, Scientists Say
A new theory suggests that the universe perpetuates itself by constantly adapting its own physical laws over time. An autodidact is someone who has learned a subject without a teacher or formal education. Famous examples […]