Explorando os Enigmas do Superuniverso
Two years after the Starshot Breakthrough Initiative was launched with the aim of sending an object towards our nearest stellar neighbour, we’re still left staring at the heavens dreaming of the possibility. A team of materials scientists has taken a more sober look at the current state of technology and listed what we need to […]
Evidence of Hepatitis B has been found in human DNA dating back to the Bronze Age, around 4,500 years ago. We now have proof that it infected humans broadly across Eurasia for millennia, pushing back the earliest evidence we have by thousands of years. Previously, the earliest evidence of Hepatitis B was just 450 years […]
Scientists have trained a spider to jump on command in the hopes that it will inspire a new generation of robots modelled on nature. There are lots of spiders that have the ability to jump, and the regal jumping spider (Phidippus regius), which the researchers used in this particular study, is no misnomer. The regal […]
When heroes hang around a while, the power level of those around them needs to step up to test their mettle. And the Luke Cage Season 2 trailer shows both villains and companions are turning things up a notch. First season Cage was a tour de force, and while we love Cage himself we’re absolutely […]
For years, Kendra Jackson battled an incessantly runny nose – sniffling and sneezing, blowing and losing sleep each night. Jackson said she initially thought she was getting a cold, then, as her symptoms persisted, doctors suggested it was possibly seasonal allergies, placing her among the more than 50 million Americans who struggle with them each […]
California just became the first state in the US to require all new homes to be built with rooftop solar panels. The California Energy Commission hearing room was packed full on Wednesday as the commission voted unanimously in favor of the proposed rule. Starting on 1 January, 2020 any new home that’s three stories tall […]
A new study involving more than 100,000 volunteer gamers is the latest to show that quantum entanglement works. It’s a phenomenon Einstein was famously uncertain about, calling it “spooky action at a distance”. And that description sums it up pretty well – it’s the idea that particles can influence each other when they’re not connected, […]
Apparently, withdrawing from the Paris climate accord wasn’t enough. Now, the Trump administration wants to restrict the world’s ability to measure carbon emissions. According to a new report from the journal Science, the Trump administration has quietly killed NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) – a $10 million-a-year research project, which monitors the flow of Earth’s […]
We know crows are like, really smart, but are they use-a-credit-card-to-buy-a-train-ticket smart? Well, actually… maybe. One crow has been caught in the act of appearing to try just that after stealing a woman’s credit card in Japan. In the video from Tokyo’s Kinshichō Station, originally posted to Twitter by user @kinoshi42155049, the corvid is filmed […]
For years, the state of California has been leading the nation in solar production, employing more than 86,000 workers in its local solar industry. And, as of last year, the state generated about 16 percent of its energy needs from solar power alone. Now, the Golden State is about to go even greener. On Wednesday, […]