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Looking into the past: Why it should be a part of our scientific quest. NASA images show an unidentified object 100 times larger than Earth coming out of the Sun. Dwarf Planet 'On Collision Course With Moon' May Explain Mysterious Lunar Surface, Say Scientists. We've seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own. Scientists Finally Detect The Universe’s First Molecule. The more we try to answer questions about the so-called “Big Bang,” which scientists believe occurred 13.8 billion years ago, and the evolution of the universe, the more challenging it gets to do so.

Scientists Finally Detect The Universe’s First Molecule

However, scientists believe they have detected the universe’s first molecule. They believe these early molecules were essential in the evolution of the world as we know it today, although those molecules are absent now. Researchers have long believed the helium hydride ion HeH+ was the universe’s first molecule. However, until now, researchers couldn’t find any evidence of its existence. They reported their discovery in a paper published in the journal Nature.

Scientists say that after the Big Bang took place, HeH+ formed a molecular bond when helium atoms and protons combined. More than one reality exists, shocking study says. Shocking study says more than one reality exists A shocking new study suggest that, at a quantum level at least, two different versions of reality exist.

More than one reality exists, shocking study says

‘Negative Mass Fluid Fills the Entire Universe’ – Leading Researcher. Opinion 11:06 07.12.2018(updated 11:07 07.12.2018) Get short URL Doctor James Farnes, who led the research at Oxford’s e-Research Centre, said that scientists now think that both dark matter and dark energy can be unified into a fluid that possesses a type of “negative gravity”.

‘Negative Mass Fluid Fills the Entire Universe’ – Leading Researcher

It would suggest that the missing 95% of the cosmos had an aesthetic solution, which includes a simple minus sign, according to Farnes. The research features a computer simulation of negative mass properties, which predicts the formation of dark matter halos. Environment turns molecule into a switch. It looks like a cross with four arms of equal length that have a central atom at their intersection.

Environment turns molecule into a switch

A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer. Last month, the Nobel prize in medicine was awarded for two breakthrough scientific discoveries heralded as having “revolutionised cancer treatment”, and “fundamentally changed the way we view how cancer can be managed”.

A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer

One of them went to a charismatic, harmonica-playing Texan named Jim Allison for his breakthrough advances in cancer immunotherapy. His discovery had resulted in transformative outcomes for cancer patients and a radical new direction for cancer research. New study confirms that modernists were right about sunlight – it is the best disinfectant. This is how we got modern architecture and minimalism.

New study confirms that modernists were right about sunlight – it is the best disinfectant

After the First World War, a new form of modern architecture appeared, modelled after the new tuberculosis sanitariums where they fought disease with design. They didn't have antibiotics, but they had light, fresh air and openness. Liverwort produces a chemical almost identical to THC. Liverwort isn’t much to look at.

Liverwort produces a chemical almost identical to THC

These low-to-the-ground plant species creep along unobtrusively enough, spanning their hand-like fronds over rocks and logs alike. The latest Xprize winner harvests drinking water from the air. Scientists Create Artificial Wood That Is Water- and Fire-Resistant. A new lightweight substance is as strong as wood yet lacks its standard vulnerabilities to fire and water.

Scientists Create Artificial Wood That Is Water- and Fire-Resistant

To create the synthetic wood, scientists took a solution of polymer resin and added a pinch of chitosan, a sugar polymer derived from the shells of shrimp and crabs. They freeze-dried the solution, yielding a structure filled with tiny pores and channels supported by the chitosan. Then they heated the resin to temperatures as high as 200 degrees Celsius to cure it, forging strong chemical bonds. Atmospheric harvesters will enable arid nations to drink from thin air. Physicists just found time crystals in a common item you can buy at the toy store.

Quantum physicists have now entangled whole clouds of atoms. Stephen Hawking's final theory about our Universe has just been published, and it will melt your brain. How the Shape of Your Ears Affects What You Hear. Ears are a peculiarly individual piece of anatomy.

How the Shape of Your Ears Affects What You Hear

Those little fleshy seashells, whether they stick out or hang low, can be instantly recognizable in family portraits. And they aren’t just for show. Researchers have discovered that filling in an external part of the ear with a small piece of silicone drastically changes people’s ability to tell whether a sound came from above or below. But given time, the scientists show in a paper published Monday in the Journal of Neuroscience, the brain adjusts to the new shape, regaining the ability to pinpoint sounds with almost the same accuracy as before.

Scientists already knew that our ability to tell where a sound is coming from arises in part from sound waves arriving at our ears at slightly different times. How to Explore the Hidden World of Radio Waves All Around You. One day this fall, in an old factory in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, a row of '90s-era phone pagers chirped and buzzed.

How to Explore the Hidden World of Radio Waves All Around You

Alongside their dimly-lit displays sat a receipt printer—like the kind you might find in a cash register—spewing out long spools of paper. As my eyes scanned along the printouts, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing: These were pager messages of dozens of doctors and hospital staffers, filled with very personal information about patients. The art project Holypager. Image: Brannon Dorsey The installation at this year’s Radical Networks conference was part of an artwork called Holypager by Brannon Dorsey that used a programmable radio to listen into pager message traffic. Why Your Brain Needs to Dream. Geothermal energy plants depend on this important base metal - Born2Invest. With the rising cost of energy around the world, major industries are starting to turn to renewable energy. In South America alone, mines are beginning to form partnerships with renewable energy companies for cleaner and more affordable source of power.

Aside from solar power, geothermal energy is one of the most used renewable energy around the world. Geothermal energy is obtained by securing heat from the thermal core of the earth. Though often overlooked, geothermal energy has a huge significance in the current energy situation worldwide. Geothermal energy is from the earth’s natural core. The cost of building a geothermal plant might seem expensive. Geothermal plants and nickel. Nickel superalloys are the superheroes of commercial flight. Booking a flight to your next holiday destination is as easy as it gets these days.

It is especially if you have the money to do so. Even if luxury is not in your genes, you can still afford flights from budget airlines, which are so common these days. It’s all thanks to nickel superalloys, which have made commercial flights available to most people in the world. Nickel superalloys consist of nickel mixed with solid solution strengthening elements. A form of heat treatment called precipitation hardens them further. Nasa spots towering filament that dwarfs Earth spewing from the sun's surface.

A hypnotic new animation from Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory reveals the massive arches over the sun’s surface as solar material spews along magnetic field lines. The imagery illustrates the behavior on Sept 29 over an active region – areas of intense and complex magnetic fields. And as the magnetic fields created brilliant arches on the sun, solar activity produced dazzling effects that could be seen that same day down on Earth as well, lighting the northern skies with the Aurora Borealis. Scroll down for video Solar material can be seen traveling along magnetic field lines in an active region, creating towering arches over the sun's surface According to Nasa, active regions 'are areas of particularly strong and complex magnetic fields.' Charged particles travel along the magnetic field lines, lighting them up to create stunning arches.

The images were captured in extreme ultraviolet light, and colorized in gold. NASA watches magnetic arches tower over sun's surface. Mystery of the missing Earth crust: Researchers say massive amounts of land sank into the mantle as early continents collided. About 60 million years ago, the continental crust making up Eurasia and India began the slow process of collision, giving rise to the Himalayas. But, in a new study, researchers discovered that half of this landmass has disappeared from Earth’s surface.