Mad Carbon Sucking Project Takes Another Leap Forward
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After a couple of billion years, most stars with a mass similar to our Sun eventually die, shedding outer layers and creating beautiful planetary nebulas. On the outer layers of this nebula, Abell 78, a dying star had a second stab at life. Read more >>
Now computers can tell who you are, even at night.
We all have our personal feelings about how a burger should be cooked. But most agree that the meal should be very much dead. In reality, that’s not the case at all.
This may look like a piece of abstract art, but you’re actually looking at the cutting-edge of optical technology. This microscopic set-up can pulse light on-and-off a bewildering 90 billion times per second. Read More >>
This presents huge challenges for scientists and doctors in the near future.
Resemblance to Bender from Futurama's arm not intentional.
For a long time, we thought of tool use as the thing that made us human, but we actually share the ability with many other primates, as well as surprising animals like crows and sea otters.
The Sombrero Galaxy is 50 million light years away, but it looks much closer in this detailed image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Nigeria marked its first full year with no new polio cases on Friday, thanks to an inoculation campaign which carried on despite continuing violence in the north and other major challenges for public health workers.
A team of astronomers did the maths to figure out what would happen.
Humans are pretty good at mucking up the Earth, but climate change, at least, was wreaking havoc long before we got involved.
Have you ever wondered what happens if you drop a coin (or coins) into a block of dry ice? Wonder no more. Read More >>
A picture of some deformed plant sex organs is alarming people all over the internet this week, but despite the proximity to Fukushima radiation probably isn't too blame.
Now that’s a planet, folks! Classification be damned, Pluto is an amazing little world, and this high-res, enhanced-colour image is the latest awe-inspiring portrait of it. Read More >>
A searchable database of all your memories—creepy? Or a blessing for your shrinking attention span? Either way, Google has scored a patent for just such a device.
