We Should Search for Aliens by Looking for Their Space Junk
Instead of looking for megastructures and spaceships, we should consider something a bit more obvious.
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Instead of looking for megastructures and spaceships, we should consider something a bit more obvious.
Diamonds may be rare and precious on Earth, but in the context of the cosmos, they’re remarkably abundant.
Jason, whose amber coffin was found in Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar, is now the oldest known member of the featherwing beetle lineage.
A test developed by scientists in the UK and US might someday be able to pinpoint the men most likely to get prostate cancer.
A massive dust storm on Mars has forced NASA to temporarily suspend operations of its Opportunity rover.
Replace 30% of the natural gas with hydrogen to cut consumption without any compatibility issues.
Dating back a whopping 550 million years and found in a limestone bed in China, these ancient prints were made by an unknown sea creature.
These unknown objects survived a close encounter with a black hole, but what exactly are they?
Pluto’s most famous visitor, the New Horizons spacecraft, has woken up after 165 days of hibernation.
The reason Hurricane Harvey was so bad? It got stuck.
A new study details a strategy that helped Chinese restaurant owners and chefs in the US city of Philadelphia cut back on sodium without sacrificing taste.
Companies have not yet been selected, but NASA’s March report touts several examples of existing partnerships with Orbital ATK and SpaceX, and the addition of a third service provider.
New findings make it seem like maybe, at some point in the planet’s history, the conditions were ripe for some extraterrestrial beings.
It could eventually lead to treatments for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other deadly brain-wasting disorders.
"We may expect further surprises in future research and we are looking forward to finding them."
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