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Neil deGrasse Tyson Reveals When He Thinks We’ll Find Aliens

Oct 24
2018

It might not be the answer you were expecting.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin ship to be used for rocket landings docked at Port of Pensacola

Posted by Genevieve Klien in space travel

Oct 24
2018

The Port of Pensacola has a 600-foot visitor that will soon be a landing platform for rockets, but questions remain as to why it is there and for how long it will remain.

These Researchers Want to Send Smells Over the Internet

Posted by Genevieve Klien in internet

Oct 24
2018

With electrodes up the nose, they made people smell things that weren’t there.

Tomorrow’s telescopes will be planet-sized quantum teleportation devices

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism, quantum physics

Oct 24
2018

A team of Harvard physicists recently published research showing how future telescopes will rely on quantum entanglement to see across the universe.

How we discovered a new species of the ‘missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism

Oct 24
2018

A new type of _Archaeopteryx_ fossil helps build the case for this creature being called ‘the first bird’.

Can we cure colour blindness?

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical

Oct 24
2018

Colour blindness, otherwise known as colour vision deficiency, affects around 8% of men.

The future of flying is electric planes

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism, transportation

Oct 24
2018

The future of flight

The next all-electric vehicle is the airplane.

by Sasha Lekach

Ask a Spaceman: The Quirks of Quark Star Physics

Posted by Genevieve Klien in particle physics

Oct 24
2018

Astrophysicist digs deep into quark stars in the latest episode of ‘Ask a Spaceman.’

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe snaps Earth pic as its speeds to the Sun

Posted by Genevieve Klien in space

Oct 24
2018

NASA has released an image of the Earth captured by the Parker Solar Probe on its historic journey to the Sun.

The picture was captured on Sept. 25 by Parker’s Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) instrument.

When the image of the Earth was taken, Parker Solar Probe was about 27 million miles from Earth. The average distance between the Sun and Earth is 93 million miles.

It Could be Possible to Transfer Data Through Gravitational Waves

Posted by Genevieve Klien in physics, satellites

Oct 24
2018

This discovery not only opened up an exciting new field of research, but has opened the door to many intriguing possibilities. One such possibility, according to a new study by a team of Russian scientists, is that gravitational waves could be used to transmit information. In much the same way as electromagnetic waves are used to communicate via antennas and satellites, the future of communications could be gravitationally-based.

The study, which recently appeared in the scientific journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, was led by Olga Babourova, a professor at the Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPSU), and included members from Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (MADI) and the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN).