“We’re talking wind speeds of 20 percent the speed of light, which is more than 200 million kilometres an hour. That’s equivalent to a category 77 hurricane,” said Jesse Rogerson, an astrophysicist…
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NASA is Seeking Funding for Nextgen Aircraft Designs
The world famous aerospace organization NASA has requested a 23% increases in its funding. The reasons behind this massive budget increase? To construct NASA’s next generation designs for commercial aircraft. These prototype…
Astronomers Finally Reveal the Source of Massive Deep Space Energy Bursts
Astronomers have finally been able to shed some light on the one of the greatest modern astrological mysteries. They have determined the source of a fast radio burst (FRB) that swept past…
What Makes you Snap? The Brain’s Rage Circuit
What is it that causes you to “snap”? To suddenly and explosively lash out verbally or physically? It may be something small. Cut off in traffic, the restaurant got your order wrong,…
This Death Valley Fish is a Younger Species than We Thought
The Devils Hole Pupfish are possibly the rarest fish in the world. As few as 35 individuals have been counted among them in the past. This specific species of fish only appears…
Largest Prime Number Ever Just Discovered
The largest prime number in history has just been discovered by a team of researchers at the University of Central Missouri. Are you ready for it? It’s 2 raised to the power…
Banned Toxins are Killing Europe’s Whales
A new study in Scientific Reports finds that the oceans around Europe are in serious trouble. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) may have been banned as far back as the 1970s, but their use in…
Faraday Future Electric Car is Taking Tesla Head On at CES in Las Vegas
Faraday Future’s electric car took Tesla Motors head on by unveiling its car at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 4, 2016. The FFZERO1 Concept vehicle is a test bed and…
Scientists create Tractor beam that manipulates objects mid-air using sound waves
Once strictly limited to science fiction novels and movies, Tractor beam is now a reality as researchers have created a working model of this technology using sound waves. With huge potential in…
Irish firm Nuritas lands $3.2 million in first round funding
Ireland based star-up Nuritas has landed $3.2 million in first round of funding with Singapore-based New Protein Capital (NPC), a food and agro-tech investment firm, leading the round. Nuritas is using unique…
£4.2m project to develop robots to fix potholes, drones to repair light fixtures
A new £4.2m national infrastructure research project led by researchers at University of Leeds is going to build robots to fix potholes, and drones to repair light fixtures. The funding for the…
Foam-like material paves way for artificial heart, lightweight prosthetics, more
Advances in material science has implications in a number of other branches including artificial limbs and once such research by Cornell University scientists has opened up doors that could eventually pave way…
Building a digital brain one slice at a time
If you want to learn how something works, one strategy is to take it apart and put it back together again. For 10 years, a global initiative called the Blue Brain Project–hosted…
Gannets at a greater risk from offshore wind farms than previously thought
Protected populations of gannets are at a greater risk from offshore wind farms than previously thought because a new study has found that they fly at an average height of 27 metres…
‘Stonehenge’ creators constructed Marshenge on Mars: Alien hunter
A keen alien hunter has spotted what is believed to be a Stonehenge-like structure on Mars and according to the UFO enthusiast, those who created Stonehenge on Earth may have built s…