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Science & Technology | Science
Cooped Up at Home? Help Scientists Spot Penguins from Space or Seek Out Galaxies - Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen - Coronavirus, God, and Science
Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen – Coronavirus, God, and Science The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: When PM Benjamin Netanyahu said, in a March 21 TV interview, that “with God’s help we’ll get through” the corona
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Steroids could do more harm than good in treating coronavirus -- ScienceDaily
Steroids should be avoided in the treatment of the current novel coronavirus, experts have advised. A commentary article published in The Lancet concludes that, based on evidence from previous outbreaks of similar types of infection such as SARS, steroids
News | In The News
Why this Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: ‘We’re going to be fine’
A Nobel laureate predicted China's recovery weeks before it happened. Analyzing the numbers, he sees a much brighter global outcome than many experts.
Science & Technology | Archaeology & Anthropology
One of Darwin's evolution theories finally proved by Cambridge researcher
Scientists have proved one of Charles Darwin's theories of evolution for the first time—nearly 140 years after his death.
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
Why most deadly viruses arise in Africa or Asia | Cosmos
And it’s expected to get worse.
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel March 15, 2020
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 15, 2020 Although Israel has closed its international borders to counter the coronavirus, Israelis continue with their life-enhancing activities and innovative developments. These include medical breakthro
Science & Technology | SCIENCE
When Voyager 2 Calls Home, Earth Soon Won’t Be Able to Answer
NASA will spend 11 months upgrading the only piece of its Deep Space Network that can send commands to the probe, which has crossed into interstellar space.
Science & Technology | Science
SpaceX’s Starship rocket prototype collapsed on itself this weekend
Videos show SN1 crumpling during a pressure test.
Science & Technology | Science
Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously, Especially This One Concept
It's hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of light is absolute. It is little wonder then why science fiction franchises routinely employ FTL (Faster-than-Light) as a plot device.
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel March 1, 2020
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel March 1, 2020 The coronavirus is currently one of the top “bad news” stories, but Israel is busy countering it – there are seven relevant articles in this week’s positive Israel newslette
Entertainment | Miscellanneous Trek
Star Trek's warp speed travel would have tragic consequences
In science fiction, traveling to the edges of the cosmos is as simple as pushing a button. But in reality? We're exploring the cost of traveling at warp speeds.
Science & Technology | Science
H. salminicola: Scientists discover first animal that doesn't breathe
H. salminicola, a common salmon parasite, is the first animal found in the wild to not have mitochondrial DNA, which is required for respiration.
Entertainment | Miscellanneous Trek
Star Trek's transporters would be a menace to society, science says
Could elements of this imagined future in Star Trek be horrors in disguise? No, we're not talking about Klingon cuisine. We're talking about transporters.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Ant Nebula | Flickr
From ground-based telescopes, the so-called "ant nebula" (Menzel 3, or Mz 3) resembles the head and thorax of a garden-variety ant.
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 16, 2020
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 16, 2020 This week’s newsletter is full of examples of Israeli individuals and innovations going above and beyond what previously was imaginable. Controlling a single cell, decoding brain signals and
News | Clean Energy
After 40 Years of Hunting, Scientists Identify a Key Flaw in Solar Panel Efficiency
Solar panels are fantastic pieces of technology, but we need to work out how to make them even more efficient – and last year, scientists solved a 40-year-old mystery around one of the key obstacles to increased efficiency.
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
The Supposedly Physics-Defying NASA Thruster Doesn't Work, New Research Confirms
If you want to send something deep, deep into space, it’s impractical to load it up with lots of heavy propellant. Scientists with their eyes on long-distance space travel have contemplated thrusters that wouldn’t need any propellant at all. The EmDri
Science & Technology | Archaeology & Anthropology
Investigating Homo floresiensis and the myth of the ebu gogo | Aeon Ideas
Do ancient bones prove the myth of the ravenous, pendulum-breasted hobbit stalking the past? How science blends with legend
Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation
Israeli researchers find method to convert carbon-containing waste to gas
Carbon-containing waste has presented an increasingly problematic challenge for industrialized societies
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 9, 2020
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 9, 2020 The highlights include: A new treatment may be a future cure for Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases. Microsoft Israel is developing an app to help patients find clinical trials. WIZO celebrates
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
Trump said to propose roughly $3 billion NASA budget boost for 2021 – TechCrunch
President Donald Trump is set to request a budget of $25.6 billion for NASA for its fiscal 2021 operating year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. It’s looking for nearly $3 billion more than the $22.6 billion NASA had for its current fisca
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously, Especially One Specific Concept
It's hard living in a relativistic Universe, where even the nearest stars are so far away and the speed of light is absolute. It is little wonder then why science fiction franchises routinely employ…
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 2, 2020
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Feb. 2, 2020 Israel is essential for maintaining the safety and smooth-running of governments, world economies, global health systems, multinationals and more. This week’s newsletter includes recent news o
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Voyager 2 shut off its instruments to save power, NASA says - CNN
Voyager 2 was only expected to last for five years, but it's still operating 42 years after launch.
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 26, 2020
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 26, 2020 The highlights include: A new Israeli treatment could be a cure for Type 2 diabetes. An Israeli wristband device treats irregular heartbeats. A government leadership program for children of Israeli
Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation
Israel: Study shows how children benefit from intellectually disabled siblings
Researchers using artwork analysis find that a disabled child has a positive effect on family, correlating with higher scores on empathy and closeness, less conflict and rivalry
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This Week's Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 19, 2020
This Week’s Sanity Report from Israel Jan. 19, 2020 The earth-shattering Israeli innovations and activities in this week’s newsletter are again making a global impact. The US and UK have adopted new Israeli medical devices and have invited doz
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem
You enter a cave. At the end of a dark corridor, you encounter a pair of sealed chambers. Inside each chamber is an all-knowing wizard. The prophecy says that with these oracles’ help, you can learn the answers to unanswerable problems. But there’s a catc
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Is there a wormhole hiding at the center of the Milky Way?
We talk to Dejan Stojkovic, professor of cosmology, about whether the black hole at the centre of our Galaxy might actually be a wormhole instead.
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Venice canals nearly dry, months after historic floods | Fox News
Just weeks after Venice, Italy was mostly underwater after suffering some of its worst floods in more than 50 years, its famous canals have now dried up, leaving them unnavigable thanks to low tide.
Health & Fitness | Sleep
How Sleep Changes Your Brain, From Infancy to Old Age, According to Science
Neuroscience reveals many ways sleep changes our brain, from neuron growth to white matter density and the developmental dangers of jet lag.
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Titanic wave of star-forming gases found in Milky Way | Fox Business
It took a 3-D project to make the discovery possible.
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
When the Cobra Bites, You’ll Be Glad Someone Sequenced Its Genome - The New York Times
Some scientists hope genomic technologies will lead to improved antivenom.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Breakthrough pancreatic cancer treatment phase III trial opens in Israel - The Jerusalem Post
Hope is that successful trials will allow Rafael Pharmaceuticals will receive expedited FDA approval by late 2020.
Science & Technology | Science
This Guy Is Pretty Sure His Time Machine Would Work
A longtime advocate for time travel says he has a “prototype” of a device that uses lasers to twist time. So: Just how possible is time travel anyway?
Science & Technology | Science
Scientists debunk 5 common meat-eating myths | Inverse
Like much in science, the truth about meat is nuanced. One group of scientists says that reducing red and processed meat is a top priority for your health and the planet's. Another says these foods pose no problems for health. A nutritionist clears up som
Science & Technology | Paleontology
Researchers learn more about teen-age T.Rex
Without a doubt, Tyrannosaurus rex is the most famous dinosaur in the world. The 40-foot-long predator with bone crushing teeth inside a five-foot long head are the stuff of legend. Now, a look within the bones of two mid-sized, immature T. rex allow scie
Science & Technology | Biology & Medicine
Alzheimer 'tau' protein far surpasses amyloid in predicting toll on brain tissue
Brain imaging of pathological tau-protein "tangles" reliably predicts the location of future brain atrophy in Alzheimer's patients a year or more in advance, according to a new study by scientists at the UC San Francisco Memory and Aging Center.
Science & Technology | Biology & Medicine
Heart attack discovery could give hope to people not able to be treated
Heart disease remains the largest killer in Australia and around the world. A new study has shown that a protein therapy- recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor-AB (rhPDGF-AB) - could improve outcomes following heart attack.
Health & Fitness | Health & Wellness
Here's The Real Science on What Happens in Your Body When You Drink Too Much
With the holiday season well underway and New Year's Eve approaching, you might find yourself drinking more alcohol than usual.
Science & Technology | SCIENCE
It Will Take 20,000 Years for Our Earliest Probes to Reach Alpha Centauri
The earliest explorations of the universe beyond our solar system were made by four probes launched in the 1970s -- Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2. But where will these early probes end up? And how long will they travel before finding another star?
News | Animal Links
Plants 'Talk' To Each Other When A Threat Is Nearby, Study Finds
Researchers at Cornell University have discovered that plants can indeed communicate among each other to warn of nearby threats and pests.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
Five Impossible Facts That Would Have To Be True If The Earth Were Flat
It isn’t flat, and these simple observations that you can make from the ground can demonstrate it to anyone.
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What The 3 Biggest Physics Discoveries Of The Decade Mean For The Future Of Science
Finding the Higgs boson, gravitational waves, and imaging a black hole's event horizon were huge. There's even more to the story.
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Does Space Really Have A Vacuum Effect Like In The Movies?
We often see ship hull breaches in space movies, but do they accurately depict the vacuum's pull? This question was originally answered on Quora by Robert Frost.
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
DNA from Stone Age ‘chewing gum’ tells an incredible story
For the first time, scientists used 5,700-year-old saliva to sequence the complete human genome of an ancient hunter gatherer, as well as the world of microbes that lived inside her.
Politics | Leftist Lunacy
Woke Science Jumps the Shark
It is not secret that the wokerati are making steady inroads into the domain of the hard sciences (physics, chemistry, engineering, etc). But Nature magazine, although left of center, might have been thought immune from the sillier aspects of the PC cultu
Advice & Self-Help | Health & Fitness
Smoking may trigger diabetes in pregnant women, Israeli/American study finds
Gestational diabetes leads to complications for mother and child; 'ideally, women should quit smoking before they try to become pregnant,' Hebrew University researcher says
Science & Technology | Science
These are the top 20 scientific discoveries of the decade
The 2010s yielded many incredible finds and important milestones. Here are our favorites.
Science & Technology | Paleontology
Early meat-eating dinosaur revealed via spectacular fossil
The nearly complete skeleton belongs to an apex predator of the Triassic that hunted the ancestors of today’s mammals.
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
Everything You Need to Know About Genetic Testing | WIRED
Everything you need to know about DNA, medical breakthroughs, and genetic privacy.
Science & Technology | Science
Dying coral reefs could be saved by playing sounds of healthy coral reefs from speakers | Fox News
Scientists have looked at various methods to save endangered coral reefs for years, looking at everything from growing them in labs to making them pollution resistant. A new study suggests that sounds from healthy reefs could also play a role in saving th
Science & Technology | Science & Technology
How Close Are We to Star Trek Propulsion? | Discover Magazine
It’s popular to talk about how the original Star Trek, set in the 23rd century, predicted many devices that we’re using already here in 2014. It started with communicators that manifested as flip-open cell phones that many already consider too primitive, moved through computers that talk and recognize human voices and provide instant translation (all of which are constantly improving), to medical applications such as needle-free injection, anti-radiation drugs, and a medical tricorder.
Family & Parenting | Kids
These Contact Lenses May Help Slow Down Nearsightedness in Children
These contacts do more than just help your kiddo to see better.
Science & Technology | Science
$700 Quintillion Metal Asteroid Is Likely Former Planet Core
16 Psyche, an asteroid made up of 95% metals, is estimated to be worth $700 quintillion, and may even be the former core of a protoplanet.
Politics | Politics
Why Everything They Say About Climate Change Is Wrong
Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. And increasingly extreme statements by activists undermine environmental progress, say climate scientists.
Science & Technology | Science
Science Says the Most Successful Kids Have Parents Who Do These 5 Things | Inc.com
A handful of recent studies indicate the important things which parents should focus on.
Science & Technology | Biology & Medicine
Why the CDC warns antibiotic-resistant fungal infections are an urgent health threat
Mention fungi and most people think of eating mushrooms or yeasts in bread or beer. But fungi are now on the CDC's list of public health threats as the number of deadly infections they cause rise.
Science & Technology | Tech
Doctors Are Testing Human Suspended Animation for the First Time
The University of Maryland Medical Center has assembled a team to conduct the suspended animation experiment, but the rules governing ...
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
Saturn is officially losing its rings — and they're disappearing much faster than scientists had anticipated
Saturn is losing its rings faster than previously thought. Scientists estimate the rings will be gone in 100 million years.
Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation
Translating Research Into Real-World Innovation: 5 Lessons To Learn From Israel's Success
In this guest post, Dr. Mark Shmulevich of the Zimin Institutes says scientific breakthroughs are the key to solving pressing global problems such as climate change and care for aging populations. | NoCamels
Science & Technology | Technology
The Laser Weapon Is Really, Really Finally Here
Rejoice if you look towards the dystopia of the Star Wars universe, for laser weapons have finally, at long last, arrived. The laser, a weapon system perpetually “ten or fifteen years away” from operational use, is off the development treadmill and en
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12?
This is what my mom said to me when I told her about this little mathematical anomaly. And it is just that, an anomaly. After all, it defies basic logic. How could adding positive numbers equal not…
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
How to Perform Calendar Calculations in Your Head
In less than 30 minutes, learn how to calculate which weekday any given date occurs on
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Blood Test May Detect Breast Cancer BEFORE it Starts
A new, simple blood test currently being developed in the United Kingdom may be a significant game changer in the fight against breast cancer.
Science & Technology | Science
Interstellar space even weirder than expected, NASA's Voyager 2 reveals
The spacecraft is just the second ever to venture beyond the boundary that separates us from the rest of the galaxy.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Reaction Engines’ Mach 5 engine is just the tip of the new aerospace boom | TechCrunch
Imagine a hypersonic passenger aircraft that would cut the journey time between London and New York to around two hours. At Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, the aircraft would complete a trip across the Atlantic in around 120 minutes. Mach 5 is m
Science & Technology | Science
Mail-In DNA Tests: Genetics, Security, and More
If you’re thinking about using an at-home DNA test kit, here are a few things to think about before mailing it in.
Health & Fitness | Health
Anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen and aspirin can battle major depression, scientists find
Anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen and aspirin can battle major depression effectively and could be a safer alternative than antidepressants, a major new study suggests.
History | History
Mind-boggling facts that sound fake, but are actually true
Some facts are so mind-boggling that they sound bogus. We did the digging to bring you all the wildest trivia no one believes could possibly be true.
Science & Technology | Science & Space
Why is space so cold if the sun is so hot?
Earth is a pretty mild place, but space is full of wild temperature extremes.
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash
The Chicxulub event was as damaging to life in the oceans as it was to creatures on land, a study shows.
Science & Technology | Science
Japan will help NASA build a space station near the Moon
Japan will join NASA's Artemis lunar exploration program.
Science & Technology | Science
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.
Science & Technology | Science
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.
Science & Technology | Science
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.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
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.
Science & Technology | Science
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
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
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.
Science & Technology | Science
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
Science & Technology | Science
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.
Science & Technology | Science
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.
Science & Technology | Science
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.
Science & Technology | Cool Stuff
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!
News | Heroes & Heroines
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.
Science & Technology | Science
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?
Science & Technology | Science
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…
Science & Technology | Science
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.
News | News
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.
Science & Technology | Science
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.
Science & Technology | Science
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.
Science & Technology | Science
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?
Science & Technology | Science
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.
News | News
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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
