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Oct 20, 2018

Earth’s core is solid but slightly ‘squishier’ than first thought

Posted by in category: futurism

Seismologists from from the Australia National University (ANU) have found the first conclusive proof that the Earth’s innermost core is solid after 80 years of searching.

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Oct 20, 2018

Rare Groundcherry Could Soon Be Everywhere, Thanks to Gene Editing

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, food

Hundreds of crops in developing countries are relatively unknown in the developed world because they’re often hard to grow or export. But scientists have found that CRISPR editing can speed up traditional plant breeding techniques.

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Oct 20, 2018

Asteroid mining might actually be better for the environment

Posted by in category: space

The first study of its environmental impact suggests that extracting resources such as platinum from asteroids might be cleaner than doing so on Earth.

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Oct 20, 2018

The Universe Is Always Looking

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, space

Yay… another person who gets it 👀.


The one thing you probably understand about quantum physics is actually a poor metaphor for the modern state of the field.

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Oct 20, 2018

Want to know when you’re going to die?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

New DNA tools can decode your natural lifespan…


Your life span is written in your DNA, and we’re learning to read the code.

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Oct 20, 2018

Deafness could be reversed? Scientists discover how to regrow lost cells in the ear

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

Could deafness be reversed? Scientists re-grow damaged hair cells that have been killed off by age or noise inside the ear…


Researchers from the University of Rochester found that viruses, genetics and even existing drugs could cause little hairs to regrow in the inner ear. These hairs pick up on noises entering the ear.

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Oct 20, 2018

Milky Way’s Youngest Pulsar Found 19,000 Light-Years From Earth

Posted by in category: cosmology

The pulsar is roughly 500-years-old and was spotted with the help of NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

Astronomers have managed to locate the youngest pulsar in the Milky Way, NASA announced yesterday. Dubbed PSR J1846-0258, the pulsar was spotted inside one of our galaxy’s supernova remnants — found 19,000 light-years away from our planet, in the Aquila constellation (The Eagle).

This exciting discovery — first detailed in a study published earlier this year in The Astrophysical Journal — could shed more light into supernova explosions and the new beginnings that arise from the death of a stellar giant.

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Oct 20, 2018

The Eternal Quest for Aether, the Cosmic Stuff That Never Was

Posted by in category: futurism

Aristotle called it the fifth element. Alchemists thought it was the key to the philosopher’s stone. Scientists believed it was the stuff light moved through. But it never existed at all.

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Oct 20, 2018

What would you see if you could travel at the speed of light?

Posted by in category: futurism

Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity was born from this very question, and the answer is as weird as you’d expect.

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Oct 20, 2018

Artificial intelligence better than physicists at designing quantum science experiments

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics, robotics/AI, science

Perhaps physicists should leave human intuition at the laboratory door when designing quantum experiments too.

An Australian crew enlisted the help of a neural network — a type of artificial intelligence — to optimise the way they capture super-cold atoms.

Usually, physicists smoothly tune lasers and magnetic fields to gradually coax atoms into a cloud, according to study co-author Ben Buchler from the Australian National University.

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