Science

Already rapidly disappearing Arctic sea ice is melting up to 25 per cent more quickly than initially believed, according to research conducted partly by University of Calgary researchers. Indeed, scientific predictions that foresaw the first ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summertime occurring between 2040 and 2050 may come to pass even sooner, according to Vishnu Nandan, Geography Eyes High doctoral ... Read More »

A Mythical planetary system will soon be as clear and visible to us as the moon, according to an astronomer. Gill Broussard claimed amateur astronomers would soon lock onto the existence of the legendary Planet X or Nibiru system, before a global cover up to deny its existence is exposed. Nibiru is a fabled alien world that is apparently hurtling ... Read More »

Scientists has developed machine learning techniques that could successfully predict the timing of a real earthquake. The team, from the University of Cambridge, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Boston University, identified a hidden signal leading up to earthquakes and used this ‘fingerprint’ to train a machine learning algorithm to predict future earthquakes. Their results, which could also be applied to ... Read More »

Witnessing a neutron star violently crash into another has helped scientist uncover secrets of the universe — including how gold was created. Based on the brightness and color of the light emitted following the merger, which closely match theoretical predictions by University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicists, astronomers can now say that the gold or platinum ... Read More »

Researchers have retrieved the near-complete skeleton of one of the most ferocious tyrannosaurs to roam western North America millions of years ago. The 76-million-year-old skeleton was airlifted to the Natural History Museum of Utah by helicopter on Sunday, where it will be uncovered, prepared, and studied. “With at least 75 percent of its bones preserved, this is the most complete ... Read More »

The Orionid meteor shower will light up the night sky tonight and tomorrow night as Earth travels through an area of space littered with debris from Halley’s Comet, according to NASA. On a dark and moonless night, the Orionids produce as many as 10 to 20 bursts every hour. Thankfully this year’s lack of a full moon should keep the ... Read More »

Do Aliens exist? What about the Lock Ness Monster? 50 years ago two guys were “strolling through the forest” and caught video evidence of Bigfoot. IT lasts for only 59.5 seconds – but the Patterson-Gimlin film is one of the most infamous and heavily scrutinised works ever produced. The year was 1967, and two cowboys from Washington’s apple country were ... Read More »

A new species of monstrilloid copepod, Monstrillopsis planifrons sp. n., is described from an adult female that was collected beneath snow-covered sea ice during the 2014 Ice Covered Ecosystem – CAMbridge bay Process Study (ICE-CAMPS) in Dease Strait of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Aurelie Delaforge did not purposefully seek this monster out in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. But she found it, ... Read More »

Scientists from Caltech and the University of Southern California (USC) have employed quantum-compatible machine learning techniques to extract a rare Higgs boson signal from copious noise data. Despite the central role of physics in quantum computing, until now, no problem of interest for physics researchers has been resolved by quantum computing techniques. In this new work, the researchers successfully extracted ... Read More »

Thanks to a study in Geophysical Research Letters, we now know where the first human settlement on the moon could be built—a massive lava tube potentially extending miles below the surface. Lava tubes are naturally occurring channels formed when a lava flow develops a hard crust, which thickens and forms a roof above the still-flowing lava stream. Once the lava ... Read More »

Researchers observing the collision of two hyperdense neutron stars have concluded that all the heaviest elements in the universe, including precious metals like gold and silver as well as substances like uranium, are created during neutron star mergers just like the one they observed. The first detection of gravitational waves from the cataclysmic merger of two neutron stars, and the ... Read More »