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Japan will help NASA build a space station near the Moon
Japan will join NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program.
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What Can Cause a False Positive Drug Test
Getting ready to take a drug test for a job or for other reasons? Watch out for these common things that could lead to a false positive result.
Psychology | Psychology
Slow walkers have slower minds, scientists reveal
William Blake did it dreamily, Sigmund Freud languidly, and Albert Einstein almost religiously.
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Voyager Mission Detects Unexpected Pressure At The Edge Of The Solar System
NASA’s Voyager 1 mission scientists have calculated the total pressure from particles in the outer region of the solar system, known as the heliosheath during an opportune timing of a solar event that made the measurement possible.
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Inbound interstellar comet Borisov has a toxic tail
The space rock isn't from around here, but the poisons it carries are.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Russian Mine Yields Diamond-Within-Diamond Stone; First of its Kind
The stone weighs 0.62 carats, while the internal gem weighs 0.02 carats. It may be more than 800 million years old.
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Quantum Research News | What Is Quantum Superposition?
For the first time ever, physicists tested the phenomenon of quantum superposition using molecules. That's a big deal.
Entertainment | Miscellanneous Trek
Warp speeds in 'Star Trek' are achingly slow, and a simple animation by a former NASA scientist proves it
The animation shows how long it takes the starship "Enterprise" in "Star Trek" to reach Pluto at warp factors that break the known laws of physics.
Science & Technology | Science
Why Is It So Dark in Outer Space?
It's a question scientists have been asking for more than 400 years.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
New Research Finds Blood Test for Cancer
A new cancer-detecting blood test, while only in the developmental stage, has already made waves in the medical community.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Moon Landing: Why It's Still So Hard to Land on the Moon
Two missions from SpaceIL and the Indian Space Research Organization both failed to land craft on the moon this year. Fifty years after Apollo, we spoke to two space experts to understand why are lunar landings still so challenging.
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Black holes might not be black holes at all – BGR
Of all the features of our universe, black holes might be the most interesting, as well as the most frightening. These ultra-dense spots in space suck in everything around them, and once a black hole has you in its grasp, there's quite literally no escapi
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Dutch inventor says his ocean cleaning boom is working
After a series of setbacks, a system for catching plastic floating in the Pacific between California and Hawaii is now working, its Dutch inventor said Wednesday. Boyan Slat, a university dropout who founded The Ocean Cleanup nonprofit, announced that the
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Ancient tree with record of Earth's magnetic field reversal in its rings discovered
The kauri tree, found in New Zealand, lived over 40,000 years ago.
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How Microbiomes Could Save the Planet
With antibiotic resistance on the rise, the earth’s rivers and water sources suffering from chronic levels of pollution, and industrialized farming damaging ecosystems crucial to the health of humans and the planet, scientists are searching for innovati
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New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms
A powerful disaster-inducing geomagnetic storm is an inevitability in the near future, likely causing blackouts, satellite failures, and more. Unlike other threats to our planet, such as supervolcanoes or asteroids, the time frame for a cataclysmic geomag
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
How NASA gave birth to modern computing—and gets no credit for it
The space agency and MIT’s bet on the integrated circuit kicked off the digital age.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
The Navy Says UFO Videos Are Real
The U.S. Navy says three leaked videos showing reported encounters between Navy aircraft and UFOs are real. And they were never meant to be released.
Health & Fitness | Health & Wellness
Regular aerobic exercise may slow Alzheimer's progression - CNN
A proof-of-concept study shows regular aerobic exercise may prevent or slow cognitive decline in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
The Mysterious Bronze Objects that Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries - Mental Floss - Pocket
The first dodecahedron was discovered nearly 300 years ago, yet no one is certain just what they were used for.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Space Photos: The Most Amazing Images This Week! | Space
See the best photos on Space.com this week.
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Study finds the universe might be 2 billion years younger
WASHINGTON (AP) — The universe is looking younger every day, it seems. New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even...
Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation
Israeli Researchers Unveil New Coding Technique To Store Data On DNA
Researchers at the Technion and the IDC Herzliya suggest DNA could be part of a viable, long-term solution to storing the incredible amounts of data we produce every day. | NoCamels
Science & Technology | Science & Space
A Visit to Watery Super-Earth Alien Planet K2-18 b Would Be Super-Strange | Space
The alien planet K2-18 b would be a truly exotic vacation destination.
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Water detected on potentially 'habitable' exoplanet for first time, scientists say
Scientists have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a “super-Earth” exoplanet with potentially habitable temperatures. The discovery, which is being touted as a milestone, could have major implications in the search for life outside the Solar System
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Mathematicians Solve '42' Problem With Planetary Supercomputer
Mathematicians have finally figured out the three cubed numbers that add up to 42. This has settled a problem that has been pondered for 65 years: namely, can each of the natural numbers below 100 be expressed as the sum of three cubes?
Science & Technology | Science
Left-handed DNA found - and it changes brain structure
Scientists start to chip away at the mystery of why one in 10 people is left-handed.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
NASA catches a Mars avalanche red-handed - CNET
See the epic dust cloud kicked up by falling ice on Mars.
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TESS Finds First Nearby Super-Earth (and it may be Habitable)
A trio of planets found in a nearby solar system offer one world that could have water, and maybe life!
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Teen’s Water Pollution Removal Idea Wins Google Science Fair
An Irish teenager won an international online science competition sponsored by Google earlier in August.
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Apollo 11 Put the First Men on the Moon. What About Missions 12-17?
You know Apollo 11. But what did the other Apollo missions accomplish after Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind?
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Why Soviets Sent Dogs, Not Primates, to Space - The Atlantic
Researchers didn’t know how people would react to weightlessness. So they sent animals first.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Einstein’s General Relativity passes the test at the centre of our Galaxy
Measurements of a star close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way confirms the predictions General Relativity
Family & Parenting | Kids
How do you find water bears (tardigrades) in the wild? | The Kid Should See This
Tardigrades (also called water bears or moss piglets) refer to over 1,150 species of microscopic aquatic animals that can be found in moss, ferns,
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
Definition of Closed Timelike Curve
Definition of a closed timelike curve and how closed timelike curves can be used in relativity for the purposes of time travel.
Entertainment | Entertainment
The Physics of Avengers: Endgame - Tom Wong - Medium
The Marvel Cinematic Universe makes ample references to physics to justify their plots and superheroes’ powers. Since the release of Avengers: Endgame, several people have asked me about it, since I…
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Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time. High-dimensional teleportation could play an important role in future quantum computers.
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Auguat 18 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Auguat 18 2019 The highlights include: Israeli scientists have developed a new treatment for melanoma. Israel gave free sports footware to Kenyan lacrosse players. Israeli space technology is out of this world.
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Scientists finding new ways to fight plastic waste | Fox News
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) scientist Gregg Beckham is an avid scuba diver. So he's seen the problem of plastics in the world's oceans firsthand.
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Study that claims white police no more likely to shoot minorities draws fire | Science | AAAS
Even with new crowdsourced databases, measuring racial bias remains difficult
Science & Technology | Science
NASA's Voyagers Grow Weaker Each Year. What NASA Is Doing About It.
NASA is rationing watts to keep its oldest mission going.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Introduction to Quantum Programming - Towards Data Science
In depth walkthrough of quantum programming for beginners, building up from the mathematical foundations of qubits to how to run on a real quantum computer.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Tardigrades that crash-landed on the moon may still be alive, but they’re not having fun | Popular Science
The moon is a barren place, but every so often humanity sends it some visitors. Most recently, the dusty rock received a rather large delegation of Earth’s toughest living critters.
Pets & Animals | Animals
Human-sized penguin discovered in Waipara
The fossilised bones of Crossvallia waiparensis were found by amateur palaeontologist Leigh Love at the Waipara Greensand fossil site in North Canterbury last year.
Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness
New Science Reveals 3 Shockingly Simple Secrets to Living Longer (Surprise: They Help Smokers and Drinkers the Most)
Worried about your bad habits? Time to change your breakfast plans.
Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation
Israel eyes next-gen satellite launch to scrutinize universe under new light | The Times of Israel
Micro-satellite weighing 160 kilos has projected 2023 launch; it will operate in ultraviolet light to answer 'some of the big questions in astrophysics'
Science & Technology | Science
Jupiter just got slammed by something so big we saw it from Earth
It's bright, it's white and fortunately it's very far away from here.
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Thousands Of The Toughest Known Animals In The Universe Are Now On The Moon | WIRED
The Beresheet lunar lander carried thousands of books, DNA samples, and a few thousand water bears to the moon. But did any of it survive the crash?
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Evidence of 14B year-old 'time machine' star found 35,000 light-years from Earth | Fox News
Astronomers have found evidence of one of the oldest stars in the universe, a star that lived 13.8 billion years ago, nestled inside a star that's nearly as old.
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Aug. 8 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Aug. 8 2019 The highlights include: Israeli scientists have transformed MRI scans to detect brain diseases. Israel’s upgrade of neonatal units in Ghana has saved hundreds of babies. Israelis take hundreds of s
Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation
NASA Solar Probe Spacecraft Fitted With Israeli Tech Reveals Extraordinary Amount Of Data
The probe is fitted with an Israeli-engineered sensor capturing high-res images of the sun's atmosphere; scientists say the data downlinked to Earth is much more than they expected by this point | NoCamels
Science & Technology | Science
Here’s why everything you thought you knew about gravity is wrong
Unless you think hard about gravity, your brain associates gravity with your relationship to the ground beneath your feet
Science & Technology | Science
Move Over, Energizer Bunny! NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Just Got Its Nuclear Battery
NASA's next spacecraft on the Red Planet, Mars 2020, is getting a nuclear battery to do science on the Red Planet.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Could You Pass This Astronaut Aptitude Test? | Mental Floss
Think you've got what it takes to follow in the footsteps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin? Take this Astronaut Test and find out.
Science & Technology | Science
Sea of Galilee earthquakes triggered by excessive water pumping | Science | AAAS
Taking water from the ground can unload faults and trigger tremors
Science & Technology | Science
To Stop Mosquito Bites, Silence Your Skin's Bacteria | Science | Smithsonian
Texas scientists tricked mosquitoes into skipping a blood meal by modifying the way bacteria talk to each other
Science & Technology | Science
Unhatched Gulls Shake Their Shells to Warn Siblings of Danger | The Scientist Magazine®
The unborn chicks translate auditory alarms from adult birds into quaking vibrations.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Mathematician Solves Computer Science Conjecture in Two Pages | Quanta Magazine
The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
How going to the Moon changed the universe—back on Earth
What we get wrong about Apollo.
Science & Technology | Science
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Were Almost Left on the Moon | Time
Even after half a century, people still don’t know much about the little broken switch that nearly stranded Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the…
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Here's What Music Apollo 11 Astronauts Enjoyed for Their Walk on the Moon | Military.com
NASA began equipping astronauts with small Sony TC-50 cassette recorders on the Apollo 7 mission. They used them to play mixtapes.
Science & Technology | Science
BBC - Apollo in 50 numbers: Time
Humanity has spent little more than three Earth days exploring the Moon. But that time has given us an extraordinary insight into our nearest celestial neighbour.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
The birth of the electronic beep: The story behind the sound that rules our lives.
The story behind the sound that rules our lives.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Why the Moon landing matters, 50 years later
We owe our current digital age to the 1960s Space Race. What will today’s Space Race herald for the future?
Science & Technology | Fun Science Stuff
Guess who was waiting at the Moon for Apollo 11? The Russians
How the race to the Moon between the United States and the Soviet Union was a race to the very end.
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Demoted by University for Views on Gender, Professor Sues
Demoted by University for Views on Gender, Professor Sues
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Would we have landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, if JFK had lived?
JFK’s private conversations and public statements in his last year as president crackle with high-stakes gamesmanship and Cold War intrigue.
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A retired teacher found some seahorses off Long Beach. Then he built a secret world for them
Rog Hanson created a secret habitat for seahorses in the coastal waters off Long Beach. He's come to see them about 1,000 times.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Breathtaking Simulation Recreates Neil Armstrong’s View of the Apollo 11 Landing
Choppy video taken by a camera next to Buzz Aldrin’s window is the only visual record we have of the first Moon landing. Using archival data and new high-res images, a team from NASA has recreated the Apollo 11 landing, showing Neil Armstrong’s perspe
Science & Technology | Science & Space
This is the scariest, most counterintuitive thing astronauts had to do in space
Flying in space to rendezvous with another craft is so hard that the first U.S. astronaut to try it completely failed.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Your brain works in space. But in 1961, we didn’t know that
Would astronauts sent into space be able to think? It was a genuine question as we embarked upon our mission to get to the Moon.
Science & Technology | Biology & Medicine
The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies | The New Yorker
New “living drugs”—made from a patient’s own cells—can cure once incurable cancers, Siddhartha Mukherjee writes. But can we afford them?
Science & Technology | Tech
IBM Research explains how quantum computing works and why it matters | VentureBeat
Jeffrey Welser, vice president and lab director at IBM Research at Almaden, breaks down quantum computing in terms anyone can understand.
News | News
This Week's Sanity Report from Israel July 14 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 14 2019 The highlights include: An Israeli scientist has developed a new way to lure and destroy cancer cells. An Arab Muslim represents Israel in women’s Euro high-jump championships. Israel is designing
News | News
Swiss Researchers Have A Simple Idea For Countering Climate Change: Plant A Trillion Trees
"The nice thing about this solution is it’s really low-tech," says Thomas Crowther, a co-author of the study and climate change ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Science & Technology | Biology & Medicine
The battle between virus and host cell
When viruses enter the body, such as during an influenza or a gastrointestinal infection, the processes within the infected cells change: In the worst case, the virus takes the helm and reprograms the cell to its advantage. It then produces viral componen
Science & Technology | Paleontology
Oldest completely preserved lily discovered in Brazil
Already 115 million years ago, tropical flowering plants were apparently very diverse and showed all typical characteristics. This is the conclusion of an international team of researchers led by Clément Coiffard, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. The team
Science & Technology | Science
These Odd 'Quasiparticles' Could Finally Unmask Dark Matter | Space
Tiny ripples called magnons could lure even a fleeting, lightweight dark matter particle out of hiding.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course
Astronomers have spotted a distant pair of titanic black holes headed for a collision.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
SpaceX contracted by NASA to launch black hole and neutron star research craft | TechCrunch
SpaceX has been awarded a new contract by NASA to launch the agency’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE. This research spacecraft will study polarized light from sources including neutron stars, pulsar wind nebulae and supermassive black holes
Science & Technology | Science
Trees that traveled to space now live on Earth. Here's where to find them.
Grown from hundreds of seeds that went to the moon on Apollo 14, the arboreal oddities were almost lost to history.
Science & Technology | Archaeology & Anthropology
Phillistines, Biblical Enemies of the Israelites, Were European, DNA Reveals
Ancient DNA has revealed the roots of the biblical Philistines.
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
A Massive Seaweed Bloom Is Smothering Life from the Caribbean to West Africa
Researchers call it the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Red Planet Dust Storms Rage in Mars Express Photos | Space
It's dust-storm season in northern Mars, as a series of newly released photos makes very clear.
News | News
This Week's Sanity Report from Israel July 7 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel July 7 2019 The highlights include: Israeli surgeons perform unique operation to save a baby. An Israeli-Arab has become the chairman of Israel’s largest bank. Israeli cybersecurity has prevented dozens of glo
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Scientists attempting to open portal to a parallel universe | The Independent
Could 2019 be the year humans open the first portal to a shadowy dimension which mirrors our own world? Scientists in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee hope so, and have completed building equipment they are to test this summer which may
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Why plants don’t die from cancer
Humans and other mammals and birds would have been killed many times over by Chernobyl's radiation that plants in the most contaminated areas received. So why is plant life so resilient to radiation and nuclear disaster?
Science & Technology | Science
Could a gut bacterium boost athletic performance? | Science | AAAS
Lactic acid–eating bacterium elevated in elite runners
News | News
New study solves one of the biggest mysteries in the Dead Sea | ISRAEL21c
Researchers suggest that tiny salt fingers across the surface of the lake interact with each other as they sink down, piling up salt crystals on the deepest parts of the Dead Sea’s floor.
Science & Technology | The Ocean & The Environment
Why Are Octopuses So Smart? - The Atlantic
A new hypothesis suggests that their vaunted intelligence and short-lived, solitary nature are all linked to a fourth trait.
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel June 30 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 30 2019 The highlights include: Israeli-devised cancer therapy is completely curing terminally ill UK patients. The first Druze to become an Israeli Air Force pilot. South Africa is to install Israeli “wa
Science & Technology | Physics & Cosmology
The Beginning of TIme - Stephen Hawking
This lecture is the intellectual property of Professor S.W.Hawking. You may not reproduce, edit, translate, distribute, publish or host this document in any way with out the permission of Professor...
History | History
Apollo in 50 numbers: Food
Apollo’s multi-day missions meant astronauts needed good quality food. But how do you cook a meal in space when you don’t have a stove or even hot water?
Science & Technology | Science & Space
NASA drone will soar over Saturn's largest moon
The Dragonfly mission will explore Titan's atmosphere and hydrocarbon lakes.
Science & Technology | Science
NASA's Ambitious Mission to Titan - The Atlantic
The agency plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan, a moon of Saturn with some crucial ingredients for habitability.
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
Are coal-fired power plants affecting your drinking water?
When you get a drink of water from your fridge or sink, do you think about where that water came from? It has traveled through pipes from a water treatment plant where it underwent chemical processes to make it safe to drink. Chlorine is added to the wate
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Ceres is a Strange Place, Including a Volcanic Peak 4,000 Meters High Made From Bubbling Salt Water, Mud and Rock - Univ
A new study based on data from the Dawn spacecraft explains the unusual feature called Ahuna Mons on Ceres. It's basically a 4km high mud volcano.
Science & Technology | Biology & Medicine
Why plants don't die from cancer
Chernobyl has become a byword for catastrophe. The 1986 nuclear disaster, recently brought back into the public eye by the hugely popular TV show of the same name, caused thousands of cancers, turned a once populous area into a ghost city, and resulted in
Science & Technology | Science
Earthquake 'holy grail' unlocked by scientists to predict strikes - Daily Star
A NEW way of measuring earthquakes may unlock the “holy grail” of where and when they will strike.
Science & Technology | Science
It could take 118 years for female computer scientists to match publishing rates of male colleagues | Science | AAAS
Studies examine the slow change in the ratio of female to male authors
Science & Technology | Science
NASA Moon landing: How Apollo 11 landed on Moon with computers weaker than your smartphone
NASA’S Apollo 11 crew landed on the surface of the Moon for the first time in human history using computers considerably weaker than the average smartphone used today, a tech expert has revealed.
Science & Technology | Science
These vampire birds have something in common with vampire bats, and it’s not just a taste for blood | Science | AAAS
Similar bacteria help both animals subsist on a diet of blood
Science & Technology | Science
Scientists use sound to see around corners | Science | AAAS
Echoes could help autonomous cars—or spies
Psychology | Personality
When we are Angry Or Afraid we can be Less in Control of Our Actions
By Matthew Warren. First study of its kind raises questions about the accountability of people going through extreme emotions.
News | News
This Week's Sanity Report from Israel June 10 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel June 10 2019 The highlights include: Rare positive news in the search for pancreatic cancer treatment. Israeli experts are helping seven Muslim countries save their coral reefs. Intel Israel has launched its 10t
Science & Technology | Archaeology & Anthropology
DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians
Two children's milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age.
Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness
Study of marathon runners reveals a ‘hard limit’ on human endurance | Science
Pregnancy is as metabolically taxing as an ultramarathon
Entertainment | Movies & Other Stuff
Breaking Down HBO's 'Chernobyl' With a Radiation Specialist Who Works at Chernobyl
"I think it is one of the most accurate re-creations to date."
Science & Technology | Geekery
What Is a Light-Year? | Space
On the scale of the universe, measuring distances in miles or kilometers just doesn't cut it. That's why you may often hear astronomers use the term light-year. But what exactly is a light-year?
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
Why Gulping Down a Cold Drink Feels So Rewarding
In a study of mice, researchers found no links between the neural systems related to reward and monitoring water intake.
Science & Technology | Science
Gut bacteria may contribute to autism symptoms, mouse study finds | Science | AAAS
Fecal transplants from children with autism reduce social behavior in mice
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
Scientists Cook Up a New Way to Make Breathable Oxygen on Mars | Space
Scientists have found a new way that future Mars explorers could potentially generate their own oxygen while visiting the planet.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Navy Pilots Describe Encounters With UFOs | Daily Wire
When we think of unidentified flying objects (UFO), we tend to think of aliens, but we must remember that not all UFOs are extraterrestrial.
News | News
This Week's Sanity Report from Israel May 26 2019
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel May 26 2019 The highlights include: Israeli scientists can protect the blood-brain-barrier to prevent brain diseases. Israelis are generating water from the air for Uzbekistan orphans. An Israeli rescue robot ca
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Gorgeous Orion Nebula Glows in Stunning Red and Blue Light (Photo) | Space
Captured in the visible light spectrum, this deep-space image paints a sharp and colorful picture of the great Orion Nebula.
Science & Technology | Science
These tiny microbes are munching away at plastic waste in the ocean | Science | AAAS
The organisms could be making a small dent in ocean pollution
Science & Technology | Biology & Medicine
New technique promises improved metastatic prostate cancer detection
Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of male cancer deaths worldwide. Deaths from prostate cancer are primarily due to metastasized cancer, in which cancer cells have migrated through the body and begun to grow in other areas. Results reported in B
News | Clean Energy
Turning one greenhouse gas into another could combat climate change
Sucking methane from the air might deliver a bigger bang for the buck than just removing carbon dioxide.
Science & Technology | Science
Moondust Could Cloud Our Lunar Ambitions
It's superfine. It's sharp. It sticks to everything. Before we return to the moon, we'll have to conquer one of the weirdest substances in the solar system.
Science & Technology | Science
Detecting middle ear fluid using smartphones | Science Translational Medicine
Ear infections are typically diagnosed using specialized equipment to assess eardrum mobility: The presence of fluid in the middle ear, indicative of likely ear infection, limits eardrum mobility. Chan et al . developed a smartphone system to detect middl
Science & Technology | Science
This bird lost the ability to fly twice on the same island, thousands of years apart | Science | AAAS
“Iterative evolution” allowed Aldabra rails to evolve a second time
Science & Technology | Science
The lost plains of Doggerland emerge from the North Sea | Science | AAAS
3D mapping effort will reveal the ancient submerged landscape
Science & Technology | Science
The Worst Nuclear Accident in History Turned Chernobyl Into Something Nobody Expected
Reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered an explosion during a technical test on April 26, 1986. As a result of the accident, in the then Soviet Union, more than 400 times more radiation was emitted than that released by th
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
If There Were a Time Warp, How Would Physicists Find It? | Space
How will physicists know if we're in a time warp?
Science & Technology | Science & Space
NASA launches rah-rah trailer (with Captain Kirk) for 2024 moon mission: 'We are going'
Let Captain Kirk get you excited about returning humans to the moon.
Miscellaneous | Los Angeles Stuff
Those 96 Million Black Balls in LA's Reservoir Are Not Just There to Save Water
Ninety-six million. That's how many black plastic 'shade balls' it takes to cover the Los Angeles reservoir. Why, you ask? Well, despite what has often been reported as the main purpose of these balls, the idea didn't actually start with
Science & Technology | Science
The moon may be tectonically active, and geologists are shaken
A new look at Apollo-era seismic data revealed that the moon's insides might be warmer than scientists thought possible.
Health & Fitness | Health
Can the Damage of Alzheimer’s Be Undone?
With epigenetics, there’s new hope for doing just that.
Science & Technology | SCIENCE
For a Split Second, a (Simulated) Particle Went Backward in Time - The New York Times
Using a quantum computer, physicists successfully reversed time for an artificial atom. You can even try it at home.
History | Archeology
ToI asks the experts: What are the most important finds of Israeli archaeology? | The Times of Israel
From Dead Sea Scrolls to space-age tech, the dramatic history of the ever-developing field is indelibly entwined with that of the nation itself
Science & Technology | Tech News
Scientists figure out new way to remove salt from water | Science & Tech News
The solvent-based method could be much cheaper to use than reverse osmosis or distillation based on water evaporating,
Science & Technology | Science
This Milky Way Photo on Nat Geo is Raising Eyebrows
National Geographic recently published a series of gorgeous photos by photographer Beth Moon that shows some of the world’s oldest trees under the stars. But one photo, in particular, is now raising eyebrows after sharp-eyed readers noticed something strange about it.
Science & Technology | Archaeology & Anthropology
The Lion Man: an Ice Age masterpiece – The British Museum Blog
The Lion Man is a masterpiece. Sculpted with great originality, virtuosity and technical skill from mammoth ivory, this 40,000-year-old image is 31 centimetres tall. It has the head of a cave lion with a partly human body. He stands upright, perhaps on ti
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Dying space missions remembered in inspiring final images
Spacecraft and Mars rovers don't live forever. Some run out of power, others succumb to the elements These are the last views they saw of the cosmos.
Psychology | Psychology
Brain scans show promise in spotting suicidal thoughts - CBS News
Comparing scans of people's brains thinking about the word "death," you get different results in a person who has thought about suicide and one who has not
Science & Technology | Tech News
The US Urgently Needs New Genetic Privacy Laws | WIRED
The laws governing DNA data in the US are patchy and incomplete. Yet people keep putting their DNA on the internet, compromising everyone's genetic anonymity.
Pets & Animals | Animals!
Dogs can tune out noise, just like people at cocktail parties
This discovery is useful for handlers of working dogs, who often have to summon their canines in chaotic situations.
Science & Technology | Science
Video Shows How Hard It Really Is to Walk on Earth After 6 Months in Space
Going to space is serious business. How serious? Well, let this video from NASA astronaut Drew Feustel tell you.
Science & Technology | Science
Earth's magnetic north pole is moving too fast for experts to keep up. Now scientists might know why.
Scientists have modeled the jerks inside our planet's core that cause magnetic north to go haywire. Accurate models of magnetic north inform our GPS.
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
UCSD Dr. Kang Zhang's human research violations showcase national issue
Dr. Kang Zhang is the chief of eye genetics at UCSD with a history of research violations that put patients in harm’s way for years.
News | Interesting Links
Astronomers have spotted the universe’s first molecule | Science | AAAS
Helium hydride detected by airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy telescope
Science & Technology | Science
When you die ‘you know you’re dead because your brain keeps working’, scientist claims | Fox News
We know we are dead when we die because our brains keep working to make us aware of what's happening around us, haunting new research suggests.
Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation
Turn, stop, then sit: A research-based guide for Parkinson's patients | The Times of Israel
Tel Aviv University team studies why patients with Parkinson's disease have difficulty transitioning from walking to sitting, leading to greater instability and falls
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
What a Year in Space Did to Scott Kelly
An unprecedented and illuminating study monitored identical twins, one in space and one on Earth.
Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation
SpaceIL chief: 'Beresheet 2 starts Sunday; we'll put our flag on the moon' | The Times of Israel
After crash on lunar surface, billionaire Morris Kahn announces new project on-air, says mission team will meet Sunday to begin work on successor to Israel's first moon lander
Science & Technology | SCIENCE
We've Seen a Black Hole Directly for the First Time
A supermassive black hole has been revealed.
News | Israel & The Jewish Community
With two days to go, Beresheet zeroes in on moon landing | The Times of Israel
Spacecraft completes second-to-last maneuver ahead of touchdown expected on Thursday night
Science & Technology | Science
Ancient ‘Snowball Earth’ thawed out in a flash | Science | AAAS
Rocks in China point to a geologically fast melting event 635 million years ago
Science & Technology | Science
California's Eerie 'Earthquake Pause' Is Unprecedented
California hasn't seen a ground-rupturing earthquake in 100 years. That's unprecedented.
