Astronomers spotted an unexpected trail in the gas surrounding a dwarf galaxy while using the Hubble Space Telescope…. The light emitting from the trail traveled more than 7.5 billion years to reach Earth and is thought to be traveling at a breakneck speed of 1,600km/s (3.5 million mph). Science Alert Read more…
I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos. — Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics
“All right, we’re going to begin this hour with a question on many people’s minds these days, amid all these major developments in the field of artificial intelligence. And that question is this: How long until the machines replace us, take our jobs?” That’s the beginning of a segment broadcast Read more…
You may have seen stories over the past week or so with headlines like, “Part of the sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists,” or “Unbelievable moment a piece of the sun BREAKS OFF baffles scientists” or even “NASA captures piece of sun breaking off, baffles scientists.” Read more…
Scientists from China’s Hebei University of Science and Technology have developed an ice-melting additive for asphalt that could remain active for years. [The researchers started] out by developing a chloride-free acetate-based salt. Such salts are considerably less environmentally harmful than chlorides, they’re less corrosive to steel and other materials, plus Read more…
A 19-month-old girl named Teddi recently became the first child in the U.K. outside a clinical trial to receive a new gene therapy for metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a fatal genetic disorder, the National Health Service (NHS) announced. Roughly six months out from treatment, “Teddi is a happy and healthy toddler Read more…
A team of engineers studying the 500-year-old, backward writings of Leonardo da Vinci have found evidence that the Italian polymath was working out gravity a century before its foundations were established by Galileo Galilei. The team’s findings come from a revisit of the Codex Arundel, a compilation of documents written Read more…