While Not Imminent The Threat Is Real - A Grand Challenge Has Been Announced By NASA

According to 2005 Congress directions: "detect, track, catalogue and characterize the physical characteristics of NEOs equal to or greater than 140 meters in diameter", NASA leads the world in the detection of NEOS. None of these known large NEOs pose any threat of impact to our planet anytime in the near future, but we have no way of predicting the next impact from an unknown object... Read more:

280 Hidden Craters On The Moon Mapped By Australian Scientists
Using a combination of gravity and terrain modeling, a team of researchers at the Curtin University in Australia have identified 280 lunar craters never mapped before. 66 of those craters have been...

Beliefs About Causes of Obesity May Impact Weight And Eating Behavior
Whether a person believes obesity is caused by overeating or by a lack of exercise predicts his or her actual body mass, according to new research. Obesity has become a pressing public health issue in recent years, with...

Winds On Venus Have Increased And Now Are Running At Almost 400 kph
Winds on Venus have steadily been getting faster, according to the most detailed data gathered by ESA's Venus Express, over the last six years. The results of two separate studies have revealed that these already remarkably...

Warm Ocean Is Melting Antarctica From The Bottom Up
Ocean waters are melting the Antarctic ice shelves from underneath and are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, researchers say. "Our study shows melting from below by the ocean waters is larger...

Is This What Humans Will Look Like in 100,000 Years From Now?
Our species of humans first began to evolve nearly 200,000 years ago and underwent many significant changes like behavior and appearance, during this long and dramatic period of time. We do not know what events will happen...

Mount Shasta's Lemuria And Telos: Origins - Part 2
Today in Mount Shasta there is less sensationalism surrounding Lemuria than there has been in previous decades, but much is made of the subterranean city of 'Telos', a kind of techno-spiritual city and space port...

Supercomputer Simulation Helped To Explain Decades Of Black Hole Observations
Now, a new study conducted by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy...

Huge NuSTAR X-Ray Telescope Makes High-Quality Observations Of The Most Energetic Phenomena In The Universe
NuSTAR studies the most energetic phenomena in the universe making high-quality observations of a gamma-ray burst in high-energy X-rays. Recently, a few high-energy events have sprung up, akin to "things that go bump..."

Atlantic Ocean Has Started Closing - Europe And America Could Be Joined In 220 Million Years
A new subduction zone is forming off the coast of Portugal. The process means the beginning of a cycle that will see the Atlantic Ocean close as continental Europe moves closer to America...

Why Are These Billions Of Years Old Boulders So Perfectly Round?
The beach north of Moeraki on New Zealand’s South Island is strewn with large, near-spherical boulders with bizarre cracked shells. There are over 50 boulders on the beach, which range in size from 0.5m to just over...

Secrets Of Water That Has A Memory Far Longer Than Our Transient Lifetimes
The true nature of water, which is the source of life - is unknown. We still know very little about the fascinating properties of water and its secrets. Water hides a lot of power that we are able to release...

Mount Shasta's Lemuria And Telos: Origins - Part 1
The Lemuria theory disappeared completely from conventional scientific consideration after the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift were accepted by the larger scientific community. From that point on ...

New Images Reveal Legendary Lost City Of Ciudad Blanca May Have Been Found!
It is time to open the gates of a hidden, long forgotten empire. Located in the remote, impenetrable and incompletely mapped rainforest of the Mosquito Coast, the legendary city of Ciudad Blanca, or White City has ...

A Video Map Of Motions In The Nearby Universe
Only sophisticated visualization tools are able to reveal the large scale structure of the universe with a complex web of clusters, filaments, voids and properties informed by galaxy redshift surveys and measurements of peculiar...

A Software That Can Help You To Be Successful At Work And At Home
Social phobias affect about 15 million adults in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and surveys show that public speaking is high on the list of such phobias...

Europa Report: Exciting New Sci-Fi Movie Investigates Possible Existence Of Alien Life On Jupiter's Moon
If you enjoy science fiction and astronomy then you have a great new movie to look forward to. The movie Europa Report is a unique blend of documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller....

Lone Signal: Beam Your Message To Extraterrestrials In Deep Space And Participate In A New Project
Have you ever wanted to say something to extraterrestrials? Now, you have a chance to beam your message to deep space and if you are lucky it will be intercepted by an extraterrestrial civilization. A new project ....

This Finding May Challenge Current View Of Planet Formation
This finding may challenge current theories about planet formation. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a planet forming 7.5 billion miles away from its star....

Peoples' Spoken Languages Influenced By Altitude - Expect For Tibetans
A new study shows that there is a link between geographical elevation and the way language is spoken. Until recently most linguists believed that the relationship between the structure of language and the natural world was....

A Large Number Of Black Holes Discovered In Andromeda Galaxy
Historically, Andromeda Galaxy was the first object whose extragalactic nature was recognized, and it's the most distant celestial object visible to the naked eye as a misty patch in the constellation Andromeda....

The Mysterious 'Atacama Humanoid' - One Of The World's Most Baffling Skeletons
One glance at this bizarre small skeleton is enough to convince most people this creature is extraordinary in a number of ways. Experts who examined the humanoid say it is bizarre and there are several reasons why this particular...

A Copper-Age Ice Mummy Suffered From Deadly Attack Researchers Say
A new major breakthrough has been made in mummy research. Scientists extracted and analyzed a pinhead-sized sample of brain tissue from the world-famous Ötzi the Iceman. The results further support the theory ...

A New And Unknown Class Of Variable Star Found
A new type of variable star was discovered by a Swiss team of astronomers from the Geneva Observatory, using the Swiss 1.2-metre Euler telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The discovery was based on...

Vibrating Like A Bell Saturn Creates Spirals In Its Rings
The rings of Saturn have puzzled astronomers since Galileo Galilei discovered them with his telescope in 1610. Detailed study by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s only increased the mystery...

First Evidence Of Parallel Universes: Our Universe Could Be Part Of A Soap Bubble
The idea that our Universe could be a small component within a vast assemblage of other universes that together make up a "multiverse" has been treated by physicists as intriguing, but so far it has remained in the realm of ...

A New Ultraviolet Photo Of Pinwheel Spiral Galaxy
The face-on Pinwheel spiral galaxy is seen at ultraviolet wavelengths in this image taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope. Also known as M101, the galaxy lies 21 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major...

Strange Tracks On Martian Dunes Could Be Trails Of Dry-Ice Sleds
NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they...

Sophisticated Song And Dance - Unique Australian Birds Are Grooving To The Music
When male superb lyrebirds sing, they often move their bodies to the music in a choreographed way, say researchers who report their findings in the Current Biology - Cell. The findings add to evidence from human cultures ...

For A Cleaner And Better World! - Intelligent Robot Will Solve Escalating Global Waste Problem
A highly intelligent robot named - ZenRobotics Recycler (ZRR), whose “brain” is inspired by that of a human, makes the waste recycling process more efficient than was ever thought possible. It separates construction materials...

Majorana Fermions: New Simple Theory May Explain Mysterious Dark Matter
Most of the matter in the universe may be made out of particles that possess an unusual, donut-shaped electromagnetic field called an anapole, according to a new proposal presented by a pair of theoretical physicists...

Senior Mars Rover Opportunity Finds Water On Mars - 'This Is Water You Can Drink'
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity analyzed a Martian rock that contains clays formed in non-acidic water, an environment potentially suitable for the chemistry of ancient life to brew. ..

It's Time To Shed Light On The Past Of The Long Forgotten City
Ancient city of Sebastopolis/Heraklaopolis was once the capital of a number of states and one of the five largest cities in the Black Sea during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. The first revealed relics in form...

The Least Massive Galaxy Measured For The First Time
The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them together. The findings, made with the W. M. Keck Observatory...

Robots Use Stereo Vision To Map / Photograph The Interior Of Burning Buildings
Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires...

Scientists Will Study Eternal Life - Immortality Research Projects Funded
Ever since the beginning of time people all over the world have speculated if death is the end or perhaps the beginning of something new. There are millions of people who find the mystery of eternal life fascinating and want to learn...

2013 Noctilucent Clouds Behaving Strangely
Every summer, something strange and wonderful happens high above the north pole. Ice crystals begin to cling to the smoky remains of meteors, forming electric-blue clouds. with tendrils that ripple hypnotically against the sunset sky...

New Technique To Help Discover Earth-Like Planets
An international team of astronomers hunting exoplanets are developing a technique to detect faint dust clouds around other stars, many of which might hide Earth-like planets. A new technology could help astronomers to discover...

Never Forget a Face? - Women Remember Faces Better Than Men
Researchers have long wondered why some people can remember faces easily while others quickly forget the face of someone they’ve just met. Women may remember faces better than men in part because they spend more time...

New Evidence In Favor Of Big Bang Theory
The moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the theory predicts, eliminating a significant discrepancy that troubled physicists for two decades, according to an international team of scientists using the most...

Stars Do Not Eat Their Young Migrating Planets
A new study using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope shows that hot Jupiters, despite their close-in orbits, are not regularly consumed by their stars. Instead, the planets remain in fairly stable orbits for billions...

Life On Earth Comes From Out Of This World - Comets Delivered Building Blocks For Life
Life on Earth may have come from out of this world, according to a new research. Icy comets that crashed into Earth billions of years ago could have produced life building organic compounds, including the building blocks of proteins and nucleobases pairs of...

Helicopter That Can Be Steered By Power Of Thoughts
A helicopter controlled by power of thoughts has been flown through a series of hoops around a college gymnasium in Minnesota. The experiments have been performed by researchers hoping to develop future robots that can...

Scientist At Stanford Proposes A Better Tsunami Warning System - Focus On Earthquake Acoustics
The March 2011 earthquake near Japan reached 9 on the Richter scale but it was not anticipated for that region of the ocean, geophysicists say. It generated an unexpectedly massive tsunami that washed over eastern Japan roughly...

Missing Apollo 11 Moon Samples Discovered In Warehouse After 40 Years!
Earlier this year, in March the Apollo 11 engine was recovered from the depth of the sea. Now, a new major cosmic discovery was made when Karen Nelson, an archivist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ....

It's Possible To Alter Memory - Iowa State Professor Says
It is possible to manipulate an existing memory simply by suggesting new or different information. The key is timing and recall of that memory, said Jason Chan, an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State. A series of...

Cosmic Mysteries & Extraterrestrial Life: A Kepler's Dozen: Thirteen Stories About Distant Worlds That Really Exist
If you are fascinated with cosmic mysteries and extraterrestrial life, you are undoubtedly curious about life on exotic alien worlds. What do extraterrestrials look like? Do they live on desert planets or perhaps ice cold worlds?

Our Home In The Milky Way - Local Arm - Is A Prominent Feature
The Local Arm is a structure where our planet is located and it's much more significant part of the Milky Way than previously thought. "Our new evidence suggests that the Local Arm should appear as a prominent feature...

Mysterious Skulls Linked To An Ancient Zombie Apocalypse
Several puzzling ancient skulls with their faces smashed in offer possible evidence our ancestors attempted to fight a zombie apocalypse. Who were these mysterious feared beings whose skulls were exhumed and detached...

Unusual Dwarf Star May Hold Clues Of Life On Alien Planets
A highly unusual dwarf star and its powerful flares are now studied. The object may hold clues to the likelihood of life on other planets as well as to the behavior of our Sun. Known as an L dwarf, this coolest type of star is about 53 ...

Hubble's Unique Opportunity To Look For Planets Around Proxima Centauri
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. The opportunities will occur in October 2014 and February 2016 when Proxima ...

Music of the Spheres: Star Songs
Plato, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, described music and astronomy as "sister sciences" that both encompass harmonious motions, whether of instrument strings or celestial objects. This philosophy of a "Music ...

Important Scientific Formula For Turning Cement Into Metal
Scientists have unraveled the formula for turning liquid cement into liquid metal. This makes cement a semi-conductor and opens up its use in the profitable consumer electronics marketplace for thin films...

Evidence About Vigorous Flow Of Water In A Stream On Ancient Mars
Rocks analyzed by NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover team suggest that the Martian environment was once drastically different than today's cold and dry conditions. Rounded pebbles on the surface of Mars indicate that a stream ...

Scientists Identify The Three-Horned Dinosaur That Differs From All Others
Last year, scientists identified “alien horned-face,” (Xenoceratops foremostensis) - the oldest known large-bodied horned dinosaur with strange pattern of horns. Now, Yale researchers have identified the three-horned dinosaur...

Lightest Exoplanet Discovered Outside The Solar System
The lightest exoplanet ever found around a star similar to our Sun was discovered last year in the Alpha Centauri system, one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and located only 4.3 light-years away from Earth....

Mystery Of Precious Opal - Link To Red Planet
Latest research suggests that the Australian red centre could well be the best regional terrestrial analogue for the surface of the red planet. Could it be that Australia may be home to Martians in the not too distant future?

Evidence Ancient Egyptians Used Metal Of Extraterrestrial Origin - Gifts From The Gods
Scientists have made an incredible discovery. It has now been confirmed that ancient Egyptians used metal of extraterrestrial origin when they produced some of their relics. To the ancient Egyptians these precious objects ...

ALMA Telescope Helped To Find 15 Extremely Dark And Overlooked Galaxies
Approximately 80% of the unidentifiable millimeter wave signals from the universe is actually emitted from galaxies, based on the observations with ALMA. A research team observed the "Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey Field" in ...

Giant Binary Asteroid Passes Earth On Friday May 31
A binary asteroid 1998 QE2 passes Earth on Friday, May 31. The closest approach of the asteroid occurs at 1:59 p.m. Pacific (4:59 p.m. Eastern / 20:59 UTC), when the asteroid will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles...

Striking Green-Eyed Butterfly Discovered In The United States
A new butterfly species from Texas, given the common name Vicroy's Ministreak, was discovered because of its striking olive green eye color, and was given a formal scientific name (Ministrymon janevicroy)...

New Clues To What Makes A Brain More Efficient And More Intelligent
People with high IQ are able more efficiently filter out visual information in the background and focus on the foreground, according to a new study conducted by a research team lead by Tadin and Michael Melnick, a doctoral candidate...

28 New Families Of Asteroids Identified By NASA's WISE Mission
Using data from the WISE all-sky survey, called NEOWISE, astronomers have identified 28 new asteroid families. The findings are a critical step in understanding the origins of asteroid families, and the collisions thought to have created...

Neutron Star Phenomenon - Extreme Physical Conditions That No Lab On Earth Can Duplicate
Astronomers have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down. A neutron star can spin as fast as 43,000 times per minute and boast a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than Earth's.

Hints Of Activity At Saturn's Moon Dione
Saturn's moon Dione was likely active in the past and it could still be active now, say scientists who have analyzed close-up images of a 500-mile-long (800-kilometer-long) mountain on the moon...

NASA IRIS Mission's New Challenge: Improving Our View Of The Sun
In late June 2013, NASA will launch a new set of eyes to offer the most detailed look ever of the sun’s lower atmosphere, called the interface region. This region is believed to play a crucial role in powering the sun’s...

Who Installed "This Object" At The Bottom Of The Ocean?
Our oceans are full of secrets, and this is one of them - still unexplained mysteries. Looking at this odd construction, one has to ask - Who installed this object at the bottom of the ocean?...

400 Year-Old Frozen Plants Brought Back To Life
Plants exposed by retreating glaciers are able to regrow after centuries entombed under ice, say researchers. Using radio carbon dating La Farge and her colleagues confirmed that the plants...

Mysterious Signal Originating From Jupiter Discovered - Changes In Its Intensity Observed
Astronomers have detected an unknown puzzling radio emission from Jupiter. The striking changes in the signal's intensity are surprising and unexpected. The radio emission will now be further examined by scientists...

Not Of This World Relics Hidden From Public View For Many Years Forgotten And Ignored
Many of out-of-place relics have been hidden from public view for many years because they do not fit the traditional model of human prehistory. According to this model based on evolutionary time scale, they are out-of-place ....

Stress Doesn't Affect Good Habits - Scientists Say
"Habits persist even when we're tired and don't have the energy to exert self-control... When we try to change our behavior, we strategize about our motivation and self-control. But what we...

'Cosmic Graveyard' With At Least 85,000 Extinct Comets - Discovered

Weather On Hot Jupiters Is Out Of This World

Unusual And Eerie Green Lights Haunting The Woods - The "Foxfire" Phenomenon!

Bacteria Living In Mars-Like Climate Discovered

King Richard III - Buried Quickly Carelessly Without A Shroud Or Coffin And His Hands Were Tied

How Much Light Has Been Emitted By All Galaxies Since The Cosmos Began? - Scientists Know The Answer

Remarkable Historical Reincarnation Cases Or Pure Coincidences?
How can these people who lived in entirely different times look almost identical? The belief in reincarnation can be found in many cultures around the world. The Transmigration of the Soul forms...

Top 10 New Species Of 2013 Announced
Meet 10 remarkable new species! An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped carnivorous sponge and the smallest vertebrate on Earth are just three of the newly discovered...

Very Large Telescope And Its Fifteen Beautiful Years! This Time VLT Looks At The Mysterious Bok Globules
With this new view of a spectacular stellar nursery ESO is celebrating 15 years of the Very Large Telescope — the world's most advanced optical instrument. This picture reveals thick clumps...

True Shape Of Ring Nebula Revealed
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes, a team of scientists have been able to reveal some more details regarding the shape of the Ring Nebula - a glowing cloud of gas surrounding an old, dying...

Ice Melts Under Russia's Polar Research Station - Urgent Evacuation Ordered

Extremely Small Plant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered

Titan's Extreme Weather May Be Approaching, Scientists Say

"Something" Crashed Into The Moon In February - Photos Reveal Unknown Object

Strange Neutron Star With The Lowest Surface Magnetic Field Ever Found!

Important Discovery: RNA's Hidden Abilities On Ancient Earth

Rare Galaxy Mega Merger Spotted By Herschel Space Observatory

14 Different Crocodile Species Existed About Five Million Years Ago

We Live In A Virtual World Inside Our Heads - Says Steve Grand, Author Of "Creation: Life And How To Make It"

Something Melted Rock And Changed Earth On A Massive Scale - "Losers" And Even "Winners" Hadn't Much Choice

The Future Of The Sun: 6.7 Billion Years Old And Most Distant Solar Twin Revealed
Astronomers systematically enrich their knowledge of stars located in our neighborhood and far away. Naturally, the most interesting stars are those that can help to reveal the future of our Sun that has been extensively studied...

War Of The Ants Worsens - Fire Ants vs. Crazy Ants - Who Will Be The Winner?
Invasive fire ants have been the real problem for residents of the Gulf Coast for years, but now, the situation worsens. The so-called "crazy ants" (tawny crazy ants) - Nylanderia fulva have arrived from South America. These powerful and ...

Bacteria Produce Electricity Using Hydrogen And Carbon Dioxide
We have reported genetically modified E. coli bacteria that turn waste into fat for fuel and the metal-tolerant bacteria Cupriavidus metallidurans can withstand incredible amounts of toxicity in the process of creating 24-karat gold...

Ring Of Fire That "Burns Burns Burns" With Young Stars
The spiral galaxy M94 also known as NGC 4736 is somewhat unusual in that it shows a great ring of bright young stars. How many rings do you see in this striking new image of this galaxy as seen by the infrared eyes...

Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues In Rock Altered By Water

Small Quantum Computer Can Simulate Physical Phenomena A Classical Computer Cannot!

Violent Days On The Sun Continue - Now CME Traveling At Speeds Of 745 Miles Per Second Approaches Earth

Ancient Unsolved Mystery Of Hundreds Glowing Metallic Spheres Almost Like An Underground Planetarium

Asteroid 1998 QE2 - Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship - Passes Earth On May 31

Will Malfunction Mark The End Of NASA's Kepler Mission?

Huge Explosion On The Moon Observed - 10 Times Brighter As Anything Seen Before!

Oldest Water On Our Planet Found Deep Underground

Scientists Close To Fill Missing Piece Of Einstein’s Theory

Sophisticated Map Of Saturn's Moon Titan Created

Ice Melting On The Antarctic Peninsula Has Increased Dramatically
The Antarctic Peninsula, the biggest and most prominent peninsula in Antarctica, is in real trouble. Unlike the majority of the continent, the ice on the peninsula is melting every summer and over recent decades the amount of ice ...

IceCube Neutrino Observatory Reports First Evidence For Extraterrestrial High-Energy Neutrinos
A massive telescope in the Antarctic ice reports the detection of 28 extremely high-energy neutrinos that might have their origin in cosmic sources. Two of these reached energies greater than...

Extreme Weather On The Outer Planets
On the gas giants at the edges of our solar system, Uranus and Neptune, hurricane-like storm systems as big around as Earth blow 1000 km/h winds for years on end. These planets are home to bizarre winds blowing at speeds of...

NASA Ames Scientists Close To Solving The Mystery Of PAHs!
Mysterious infrared radiation from space was discovered by astronomers in the 1970's and 1980's and this new infrared 'signature' suggested that PAHs - previously unknown to science - might be responsible...

Mount Everest's Snow And Ice Are Melting Fast, Scientists Say

Chandra's New Image Presents: Intense Gravity Of A Supermassive Black Hole Tapped To Generate Immense Power

New Scientific Principle Rules Out Other Theories And Explains Why Nature Is Quantum

APEX Telescope Presents: Fiery Ribbon In The Constellation Of Orion

Should We Worry About "Killer Solar Flare"? - Three X-Class Flares In 24 Hours

Not Only Brain's Frontal Lobes Account For Human intelligence

"Einstein's Planet" Discovered Using The BEER Algorithm

Sun Unleashes Gigantic Most Powerful Solar Flare Of 2013!

Ancient Script Reveals Mysterious Location Of Legendary Hanging Garden Of Babylon

Spectacular Colorful Mosaic From Byzantine Period Discovered in Israel

Unique Methane-Consuming Organisms Discovered!
Methane consuming microbes have been extensively studied by scientists. A few months ago, scientists reported methane-eating microbes and now another fascinating discovery. Using the Jason remotely operated vehicle...

Carbon Dioxide Tops 400 Parts Per Million! - There's No stopping It Now
On May 9, the daily mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time since measurements began in 1958, according to independent...

Project 1640: Astronomers Take A Closer Look At Four Strange Planets
Direct imaging of exoplanets - one of important advances in technology - will give astronomers the ability to probe the makeup of planets outside our solar system Now, they researchers are beginning to install infrared...

Expedition 35 - Spacewalk Under Way to Repair Ammonia Leak
Expedition 35 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn began a spacewalk at 8:44 a.m. EDT Saturday to inspect and possibly replace a pump controller box on the International Space Station’s far port truss (P6) suspected...

Our Pre-Ice Age Ancestors Used Some Of Our Modern Words

Planets Aligning In The Sunset Sky

Planetary Debris Pollute Dead Stars

Giant Impact - Water From The Earth Was Transferred To The Moon

X-Files: Disc-Shaped Object Photographed Above Earth Sparks Debate

IQ Is A Myth - Scientists Say

Secret Streets Of Britain’s Atlantis Revealed

Mystery Of The Underground Eternal Flame In New York

"Brazilian Atlantis" - Are These Rocks Possible Physical Evidence Of The Lost Continent?

Popping Bubbles In A Foam Mathematically Described By Scientists!

A Never-Before-Seen Cluster Of Hydrogen Clouds Discovered Between Andromeda (M31) And Triangulum (M33)

Will Our First Encounter With Aliens Be Like In Star Trek?
The latest Star Trek movie, opening tomorrow, raises an eternal question: why are the Klingons (or Cylons or Daleks) always at roughly our technological level? Should we meet aliens, they will almost certainly either be at ..

Spot A Space Warp - Astronomers Ask For Help!
Online volunteers are being asked to search for 'space warps', very rare massive galaxies that bend light around them so that they act rather like giant lenses in space. By looking through data that has never been seen by ...

Chelyabinsk Asteroid Strike: The NEO Hazard Is Not Just Theoretical
In February, a speeding asteroid slammed into our atmosphere and exploded high over Russia’s Ural region, injuring hundreds and causing millions of euros of damage. What should we do if we...

Red And White Vapor Clouds Filled The Skies - EVEX Mission Continues!
We earlier informed about EVEX (Equatorial Vortex Experiment) - a NASA-funded sounding rocket mission, called that will help scientists better understand and predict the atmospheric storms..

Feeling Blue? Experts Are Helping Your Mobile Work Out - Why

Talk To Your Plants - You Help Them Grow Better!
Does talking to your plants make them grow better? Researchers say: Yes! Having a neighborly chat improves seed germination, finds research in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology....

ESA's Herschel Reports: Hot Gas Falling Into Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
ESA's Herschel space observatory has made detailed observations of surprisingly hot molecular gas that may be orbiting or falling towards the supermassive black hole lurking at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy....

Mount Sharp Formed By Wind Not Water - Scientists Say
Mars' roughly 3.5-mile high Mount Sharp most likely emerged as strong winds carried dust and sand into Gale Crater where the mound sits. Air likely rises out of the massive Gale Crater when the Martian surface warms...

Extraterrestrial Rocks From Object That Exploded Over Tunguska Discovered - Scientist Says
On June 30, 1908 "something" caused a huge explosion above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska, Siberia. The blast was extremely powerful. It had the explosive force of a 15-megaton nuclear weapon, shattering windows hundreds...

New Disk-Like Cloak Is 3D-Printed ‘Frisbee’

Cosmic Flash 10 To 100 Times Brighter Than Previously Thought May Reveal Black Hole's Birth

Living In Total Darkness - Superoxide-Producing Bacteria Formed Far Away From Sunlight

Plants On The ISS Glow In The Dark

Telling Time On Saturn - It's Magnetosphere Changes With Seasons

Unusual Close Encounter In Space - Fermi And Cosmos 1805 Were On Collision Course What Is Intuition And Why Can It Be Misleading?

1,700-Year-Old Cemetery With Unusual Practice Of Christian And Pagan Burials Discovered

GROVER Is Controllable From Anywhere And Can Work Anywhere In The World!

Deep Extremely Accurate Image Of Distant Universe

Something Keeps Saturn Warm And Bright - Astronomers Shed Light On Mystery
Scientists have long been puzzled why Saturn is much brighter than expected for a planet of its age. New researchers from the University of Exeter and the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon have shed light on how...

Monstrous Cloud With Mass Of 10 Billion Suns And Spanning Over 300,000 Light-Years - Envelops Colliding Galaxies
This unusually large reservoir of gas contains as much mass as 10 billion Suns, spans about 300,000 light years, and radiates at a temperature of more than 7 million degrees. This giant gas cloud, which scientists call a "halo,"...

"Is There Such A Thing As Antigravity? So Far We Can't Say Yes Or No
How atoms of antimatter interact with gravity? "Is there such a thing as antigravity? Based on free-fall tests so far, we can't say yes or no, " says Joel Fajans of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National ...

The Herschel Mission Ends - Its Legacy Stays With Us!
Herschel telescope's great era ends... It was the first space observatory to observe the entire range of wavebands from the far-infrared to submillimetre. It had a variety of extraordinary features like for example: the highest ...

Easier To Recognize Schizophrenia - Very Innovative Method Will Solve Diagnostic Dilemma!

Our Planet 1.9 Million Years Ago - Prehistoric Organisms Ate Each Other! Huge Saturn Hurricane - First Close-Up Visible-Light Views!

NASA's EVEX Mission - Study Of Dangerous Electrical Storms In Earth's Upper Atmosphere

Planets May Be Made Of Totally Unexpected Materials - Scientists Say

Our Planet's Center Far Hotter Than Thought

Tremendous Heat From Starbursts Affects Galaxy Evolution

You Are Invited To Fly Along With Voyager - The Most Distant Human-Made Spacecraft!

Tips How To Fall Asleep Fast - Explore The Power Of Stimulus Control Therapy

Einstein's Gravity Theory Passes Toughest Test Yet - Strange Stellar Pair Helps Study The Nature Of Gravity

New Image Of Betelgeuse Reveals Gigantic Arc of Gas Weighing Almost As Much As The Earth

Ancient Earth Crust Stored In Deep Mantle

Search For Antimatter - New Matter-Antimatter Difference Observed

The 'Greenest' Galaxy Billion Light-Years Away Busy With Star Formation At Its Most Extreme!

Long-Standing Mystery - The Origin Of Jupiter's Water - Solved

Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Event Became Astrophysical Lab For Cosmic Rays Study

‘Lonely Little Bandit’ - New Dinosaur From Madagascar

Black Hole Radiation Could Be Used To Measure Universe Acceleration

"Comet Of The Century" Plunges For A Close Encounter With The Sun In November 2013

Smell Loss - How To Solve The Problem?

Horsehead Nebula In New Light As Seen By Hubble And Herschel

Distant Powerful Blazar Remains A Puzzle

Want To Go To Mars? This Your Chance But Remember It's A One Way Trip!

Stunning NASA/ESA Hubble's Image Of A Very Unique Cluster - One of the Hidden 15

Physicists Control Light Direction For The First Time - Crucial Milestone In Physics!

Two Alien Water Worlds With No Land In Sight Discovered!

"Human Ancestor" From Malapa Cave Had Mix Of Ape-Human Traits

Modified Technique Will Enable Police To Recover Fingerprints From Food

You Can't Buy The Right To Name A Planet

Computers Will Identify You By Your Thoughts

First Quantum Experiment In Space - Scientists Measure Speed Of "Spooky Action At a Distance"

Secrets Of The Gaze Perception - How You Can Tell If People Are Really Staring At You

Unique Ceremony Reveals How Your Brain Can Control Your Body Temperature - G-Tummo Meditation Works!