The break-up of a supercontinent may have caused a ‘Snowball Earth’.
The Earth might have been sent into an ice age by the break-up of a supercontinent 750 million years ago, creating a global snowball.
The break-up probably caused an increase in rainfall and weathering of rock, say climatologists. This would have sucked greenhouse gases […]
Gamma rays from galaxy centre may signify less massive missing particles.
Gamma rays streaming from the centre of our galaxy could be the signature of elusive dark matter, astrophysicists claim. The rays support an exotic theory about dark matter: that it consists…
Fluid device could find its way into pocket-sized gadgets.
Researchers have unveiled a fluid lens that can alter its focusing power at the flick of an electric switch. The device could find use in hand-held computers and camera telephones, its inventors say.
The FluidFocus lens…
A faint pair of stars, 220 trillion miles away, has been tentatively identified as the “home base” of intelligent extraterrestrials who allegedly visited Earth in 1961.
This hypothesis is based on a strange, almost bizarre series of events mixing astronomical research with hypnosis, amnesia, and alien humanoid creatures. Read on…
Investigations into lava lakes on the surface of Io, the intensely volcanic moon that orbits Jupiter, may provide clues to what Earth looked like in its earliest phases, according to researchers at the University at Buffalo and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“When I look at the data, it becomes startlingly suggestive to me that this […]
A new type of exotic particle appears to have been created fleetingly at an accelerator in Germany, reveal physicists.
When our human ancestors started eating meat, evolution served up a healthy bonus the development of genes that offset high cholesterol and chronic diseases associated with a meat-rich diet, according to a new USC study.
Those ancestors also started living longer than ever before an unexpected evolutionary twist…..
Paul Allen, the co-founder of software titan Microsoft, is ploughing a slice of his fortune into the search for life on other planets.
Mr Allen is donating $13.5m to the California-based Seti Institute.
A vibrating accelerator pedal that tells motorists when to slow down could save them a substantial amount of money in fuel bills.
Media reports about Bush’s plans to return to the moon or go to Mars quickly declared that this would cost a trillion dollars or even more. That number was widely repeated within the modern media echo chamber, often by supposedly reputable sources. It may have already done substantial damage to the Bush space policy, creating […]
MatchingDonors.com is among the recent responses to a stark fact: Every year, about 6,000 people in critical need of a transplant die waiting for an organ.
Two failed attempts to transplant adult stem cells into the hearts of laboratory mice are casting doubt on the value and safety of clinical trials testing a similar approach to repair the hearts of humans.