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Oct 31, 2018

Circling a Black Hole

Posted by in category: cosmology

There is a monster at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy that eats stars. If it’s not a black hole, astronomers don’t know what else it could be: https://nyti.ms/2RrvazD

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Oct 31, 2018

40 years ago, NASA sent a message to aliens — here’s what it says

Posted by in category: alien life

The message is carried on a golden record.


In September 1977, NASA launched Voyager I from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The craft carried a golden record that contained a message to aliens from the people of Earth. Here’s what it said.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This video was originally posted on February 17, 2016.

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Oct 31, 2018

Dr. Antonei Csoka at Ending Age-Related Diseases 2018 — Aging as Meta-Disease

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Good information 💜.


Dr. Antonei Csoka of Howard University discusses the concept of aging as meta-disease and about the hierarchy of some of the Hallmarks of Aging. He also discusses some of the philosophical and metaphysical underpinnings for the goal of overcoming age-related disease.

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Oct 31, 2018

Wanted: Researchers for China’s mega telescope to interpret signals from across the universe

Posted by in category: space

Hidden in a remote mountain location is the world’s largest radio telescope which has already discovered 53 starsThe problem is finding enough astronomers to analyse the data.

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Oct 31, 2018

How fungus and sweat could transform Martian exploration

Posted by in category: space

As a product designer imagines a Martian boot made out of human sweat and fungus, her quest sparks a new question: can biomaterials open the door for a human colony on Mars?

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Oct 31, 2018

Scientists Find Link Between Parkinson’s Disease and the Appendix

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Scientists have found further evidence that the gut, or more specifically the appendix, might play a role in the development of Parkinson’s disease.

The international team of scientists reviewed two datasets, including a large registry from Sweden, and found that removal of the appendix was associated with a decreased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. They also found that the human appendix contains clumps of a protein called alpha-synuclein in a form associated with the disease. There’s more work to be done, and the authors are not advocating that people preemptively remove their appendixes, but they hope that the research could provide a pathway towards treatment.

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Oct 31, 2018

Project Discovery: a simple guide

Posted by in category: space

Find out how online gamers are helping scientists discover new exoplanets by playing EVE Online and taking part in Project Discovery.

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Oct 31, 2018

New spinal cord therapy helps patients walk again

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Three people regained leg movements after using a new type of treatment, the latest in a suite of results involving electrical stimulation.

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Oct 31, 2018

Hawaii top court approves controversial Thirty Meter Telescope

Posted by in category: space

Construction had halted in 2015 amid protests from native Hawaiians who consider the land sacred.

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Oct 31, 2018

Why the number 137 is one of the greatest mysteries in physics

Posted by in categories: information science, mathematics, particle physics

The constant figures in other situations, making physicists wonder why. Why does nature insist on this number? It has appeared in various calculations in physics since the 1880s, spurring numerous attempts to come up with a Grand Unified Theory that would incorporate the constant since. So far no single explanation took hold. Recent research also introduced the possibility that the constant has actually increased over the last six billion years, even though slightly. If you’d like to know the math behind fine structure constant more specifically, the way you arrive at alpha is by putting the 3 constants h, c, and e together in the equation — As the units c, e, and h cancel each other out, the.

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