Scientists Create a New Kind of Liquid That Can Push Itself Along a Flat Surface
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Scientists Create a New Kind of Liquid That Can Push Itself Along a Flat Surface
Moving a liquid from point A to point B typically requires either a sloping surface or a pump of some sort to apply pressure. A new kind of material that is in early development requires neither, instead relying on a squirming skeleton of microscopic fibres…
Scientists Think They Have Another Reason Humans Became Smarter Than Our Ancestors - Blood
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Scientists Think They Have Another Reason Humans Became Smarter Than Our Ancestors - Blood
Anthropologists have been curious about the evolution of human intelligence for many decades. The main lines of research have involved archaeological finds concerning the use of fire, tools and so on. But what about looking for evidence in fossil skulls,…
Brain Cells We Thought Were Just Fillers Might Actually Be the Key to Our Body Clocks
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Brain Cells We Thought Were Just Fillers Might Actually Be the Key to Our Body Clocks
Scientists have discovered that brain cells that were once considered to be simple place-holders for neurons could actually play an important role in helping to regulate our circadian behaviour. Astrocytes are a kind of glial cell – the support cells that…
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This Object Has Been Sprayed With the World's Blackest Material, and It's Freaking Us Out
This Object Has Been Sprayed With the World's Blackest Material, and It's Freaking Us Out
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This Object Has Been Sprayed With the World's Blackest Material, and It's Freaking Us Out
Well, we've finally cracked it. Scientists have finally figured out how to paint a portal to another dimension, as prophesied by Loony Tunes' the Roadrunner. Who wants to try driving a (very small) truck right through that gaping void circle? In all seriousness…
Researchers have successfully used spinach leaves to build functioning human heart tissue, complete with veins that can transport blood
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Elon Musk launches Neuralink, a venture to merge the human brain with AI
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Elon Musk launches Neuralink, a venture to merge the human brain with AI
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is backing a brain-computer interface venture called Neuralink, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which is still in the earliest stages of existence and has no public presence whatsoever, is centered on creating…
Immortal Stem Cells Let Scientists Create an Unlimited Supply of Artificial Blood
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Immortal Stem Cells Let Scientists Create an Unlimited Supply of Artificial Blood
Researchers have developed a line immortal stem cells that allow them to generate an unlimited supply of artificial red blood cells on demand. If these artificial blood cells pass clinical trials, they'll be far more efficient for medical use than current…
A Mystery Space Plane Just Broke an Orbital Record - and We STILL Don't Know Why It's There
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A Mystery Space Plane Just Broke an Orbital Record - and We STILL Don't Know Why It's There
On 20 May 2015, the US Air Force launched a solar-powered, unmanned space plane into Earth's orbit to carry out its fourth top secret mission, and now, almost two years later, we're still no closer to figuring out what it's doing up there. The robotic X-37B…
The Arctic Is Turning Green at an Alarming Rate, and Scientists Finally Know Why
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The Arctic Is Turning Green at an Alarming Rate, and Scientists Finally Know Why
Arctic sea ice is turning progressively greener, and for years now, scientists couldn't for the life of them figure out what was going on. They knew the green had to come from blooms of microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton growing under the sea…
Giant Waves That Drive Weather on Earth Have Just Been Found Rippling Across Our Sun
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Giant Waves That Drive Weather on Earth Have Just Been Found Rippling Across Our Sun
Researchers have found evidence that the same giant, magnetised waves that ripple through Earth's atmosphere might also exist on our Sun. These waves are known as Rossby or planetary waves, and they usually occur way above Earth's surface, influencing weather…
A Giant U-Shaped Skyscraper Designed for New York Would Be the Longest Building in the World
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A Giant U-Shaped Skyscraper Designed for New York Would Be the Longest Building in the World
Manhattan developers keep building skyscrapers taller and taller, but Greek architect Ioannis Oikonomou hopes to break a new kind of record. His firm, Oiio Studio, has designed a U-shaped tower called the "Big Bend" that aims to become, what Oikonomou calls…
Scientists have restored vision to blind tadpoles by surgically implanting eyes onto their tails, and treating the augmented animals with a drug that boosts nerve growth
A probe the size of a basketball court has taken unprecedented new images of Jupiter. NASA's US$1 billion Juno spacecraft, launched in August 2011, took five years to reach and settle into orbit around the gas giant, which is more than 415 million miles (670 kilometres) from Earth
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NASA's Juno Probe Just Sent Back Breathtaking New Images of Jupiter
A probe the size of a basketball court has taken unprecedented new images of Jupiter. NASA's US$1 billion Juno spacecraft, launched in August 2011, took five years to reach and settle into orbit around the gas giant, which is more than 415 million miles (670…
The future of space tourism is looking more tantalising than ever, with Jeff Bezos' private spaceflight company Blue Origin unveiling the first interior images of its New Shepard space capsule this week
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Scientists Have Detected an Unexplained Explosion Coming From a Galaxy 10.7 Billion Light-Years Away: https://goo.gl/fXLpxU
Scientists Think They've Pinpointed the Group of Brain Cells That Respond to Meditation
A physical link between deep breathing and a calm mind
A physical link between deep breathing and a calm mind
New Simulations Suggest Dark Energy Might Not Exist
68 percent of the Universe might not exist...
https://goo.gl/64iIPb
68 percent of the Universe might not exist...
https://goo.gl/64iIPb
Supersonic Plasma Jets Have Been Detected in Earth's Atmosphere for the First Time
Hitting temperatures of almost 10,000°C. https://goo.gl/I94LjM
Hitting temperatures of almost 10,000°C. https://goo.gl/I94LjM
The World Just Got a SECOND Doomsday Vault, Because of Course We Did
Everything is fine: https://www.telegram.expert/2017/04/world-just-got-second-doomsday-vault.html
Everything is fine: https://www.telegram.expert/2017/04/world-just-got-second-doomsday-vault.html
These Mysterious Mosaics Reveal the Existence of a Long-Lost Roman City Called Ucetia
Read here; https://www.telegram.expert/2017/04/these-mysterious-mosaics-reveal.html
Read here; https://www.telegram.expert/2017/04/these-mysterious-mosaics-reveal.html