They collected roughly 4,000 TB of data in 1,024 hard drives. That picture better be good.

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Submitted on April 14th 2017 by doodlegirl with 1 comments

Vantablack is now available in a spray-on form that blocks 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light — enough to make an otherwise detailed 3D object appear as a flat black void. By Kacey Deamer. (Apr. 5, 2017)

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Submitted on April 18th 2017 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

Emerging slang, identified by searches for words’ definitions

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Submitted on April 16th 2017 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

Flakka was believed to be behind two cannibalistic attacks in Florida that left one man blind and a married couple dead. It wasn't so. Here‘s why we need facts, not myths, about dangerous drugs. By Joseph Palamar. (Nov. 28, 2016)

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Submitted on April 19th 2017 by AdelleChattre

Rai Favela | 13 Abril 2017, 10:06

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Submitted on April 15th 2017 by lostwonder

The case for dark matter is regarded as so overwhelming that its existence is often reported as fact. Lately, though, cracks of doubt have started to appear… By Pavel Kroupa. (Nov. 25, 2016)

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Submitted on April 18th 2017 by AdelleChattre

Around 13% of cache of ice cylinders extracted from glaciers in Canadian Arctic exposed to high heat in new storage facility at University of Alberta

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Submitted on April 16th 2017 by baron778

It’s harder than you think to make up a random sequence. Our ability to do so  changes with age – and could give insight into cognitive decline

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Submitted on April 16th 2017 by kxh

Scientists call for "amphibian arks" to protect wild salamanders in Europe from a deadly infection.

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Submitted on April 20th 2017 by jcscher

March was 1.3°C above pre-industrial average temperatures. More notably, this March marks a whopping 627 months in a row of warmer than normal temperatures. If you were born after December 1964, you’ve never experienced a month cooler than average on this planet.

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Submitted on April 20th 2017 by kxh with 2 comments

Malaysia Airlines, which lost a wide-body jet with 239 people aboard three years ago in one of history’s most enduring aviation mysteries, has become the first airline to sign an agreement for space-based flight tracking of its aircraft. Malaysia Airlines Bhd. reached a deal with Aireon LLC, SITAONAIR and FlightAware LLC to enable it to monitor the flight paths of its aircraft anywhere in the world including over the polar regions and the most remote oceans, according to an emailed press release from Aireon.

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Submitted on April 19th 2017 by rexall

The remains of five Archbishops of Canterbury have been found beneath a medieval parish church next to Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's official London residence. Builders renovating the Garden Museum, housed at the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, found a hidden crypt containing 30 lead coffins. Site manager Karl Patten said: "We discovered numerous coffins - and one of them had a gold crown on top of it".

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Submitted on April 16th 2017 by jedlicka

New clues to an old mystery about Inca writing aren’t etched in stone. They’re tied in knots. By Daniel Stone.

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Submitted on April 20th 2017 by AdelleChattre

The Kepler space telescope has been instrumental in discovering planets orbiting stars outside of our solar system. The sheer volume of data that has come out of the mission has allowed scientists to discover thousands of exoplanets that would have been difficult, if not impossible, to see from Earth.

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Submitted on April 17th 2017 by larylin

In case you missed it, Facebook’s annual developer conference started today. At the event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed key details about where the company is going next, specifically focusing on what Facebook is working on in relation to bots, virtual reality, augmented reality, and new communication methods (such as advances they are working on in Messenger). Oh, and he also said that key details are going to be revealed tomorrow about Facebook’s “direct brain interface.”

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Submitted on April 19th 2017 by spacepopper with 1 comments

Scientific evidence of a ‘higher’ state of consciousness has been found in a study led by the University of Sussex.

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Submitted on April 19th 2017 by imokruok

The footprint made by a reptile that lived almost 250 million years ago has been found in the Pyrenees.

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Submitted on April 20th 2017 by jcscher

Slow-motion video and weights tied to the ends of pendulums reveal that the stomping and whipping of our feet cause shoelaces to unknot.

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Submitted on April 15th 2017 by CatLady

The fear that robots will soon take your jobs has a grain of truth to it - however, the future paves the way for more jobs for humans, based in technological innovation. An increasingly popular concern is that robots will eat up labour’s share of income at an accelerating rate, leaving ordinary workers impoverished and unemployed. A common dinner conversation topic in Silicon Valley is universal basic income, and the typical argument advanced for UBI is that we are destined to indefinitely continue losing jobs faster than we replace them. Variants on this theme have circulated since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

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Submitted on April 19th 2017 by messi with 1 comments

You saw the pictures in science class—a profile view of the human brain, sectioned by function. The piece at the very front, right behind where a forehead would be if the brain were actually in someone’s head, is the pre-frontal cortex. It handles problem-solving, goal-setting, and task execution. And it works with the limbic system, which is connected and sits closer to the center of the brain. The limbic system processes emotions and triggers emotional responses, in part because of its storage of long-term memory.

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Submitted on April 20th 2017 by melaniee