Explorando os Enigmas do Superuniverso
Advertisement Those wishing to honor the theoretical physicist, who died in March aged 76, can apply via a public ballot. Applicants need to give their birth date – which can be any day up to 31 December 2038. Prof Hawking’s foundation said the possibility of time travel had not been disproven and could not be excluded. […]
Advertisement Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking star system. It’s called IGR J17062-6143, and it’s a very compact binary, where one of the stars is a rapidly spinning, superdense neutron star called an X-ray pulsar. The two stars take just 38 minutes to orbit each other. That’s the fastest orbital period of any X-ray pulsar binary […]
Advertisement Announcement alert! NASA is preparing to give us some big news about Jupiter’s moon Europa, and it could have some major implications for the search for life. On Monday May 14 at 1pm EDT (5pm GMT), the agency will hold a briefing “to discuss the latest analysis of Jupiter’s moon Europa and its status as one […]
An ancient Buddhist statue in Japan has been found to contain a collection of mysterious scrolls and artifacts, and researchers have no idea what might be inside. The statue has long resided in the Hokke-ji Temple in the Japanese city of Nara. Local legends have it that the statue in the Hokke-ji Temple might contain […]
Spoiler alert! Stop the scary theme music! Forget about being a Nefertiti mummy on Halloween. Science has killed hopes for any new movies based on the mummy of Queen Nefertiti being released from her secret burial chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun. A comprehensive series of ground-penetrating radar scans found no hidden chambers, hallways or […]
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 […]