Science

Scientists has successfully deciphered a severely damaged En-Gedi scroll through virtual unwrapping, revealing that the ancient scroll from the Dead Sea is, in fact, the oldest known copy of a Pentateuchal book from the Hebrew Bible. University of Kentucky Professor Brent Seales and his team have discovered and restored text on five complete wraps of the animal skin scroll, an ... Read More »

Vikings were hardy people who valued self-reliance and strength of will. But that doesn’t mean they were immune to the lure of feline companionship. A new study on cat DNA and linage shows that as well as ruling in Egypt and the Mediterranean, cats were welcomed aboard Viking ships. In the new study, samples were taken the remains of cats ... Read More »

The rusty patched bumble bee population has finally reached endangered levels. The US Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing the rusty patched bumble bee for federal protection as an endangered species. The species, named for a distinctive red patch on its belly, was once abundant in the upper midwestern and northeastern United States, but its population has been ... Read More »

Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, have pledged $100 million on a mission to find aliens on that planet we recently discovered. The project known as Breakthrough Listen will use the world’s most powerful telescope to listen out for messages from potential extra-terrestrial life. So it’s only fitting the three billionaires will be helping to fund the costly scientific ... Read More »

Japan’s Hinode sun-observing satellite has delivered spectacular imagery and invaluable measurements of the sun since it launched into space 10 years ago on Sept. 23, 2006. “The sun is terrifying and gorgeous, and it’s also the best physics laboratory in our solar system,” said Sabrina Savage, project scientist for Hinode at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “In ... Read More »

Physicist Stephen Hawking has issued yet another warning regarding how aliens could be incredibly dangerous and why we’d be foolish to try and communicate with them. Last month, Russian astronomers with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute detected a promising microwave signal that seemed to emanate from deep space. Subsequent review, however, found that the transmission was likely a ... Read More »

An early Thursday morning eruption of the Turrialba volcano may mean a repeat of Monday and Tuesday, as ash and gas reaching a height of 2,000 metres (2 kilometres) spreads north and west through the Central Valley. According to media reports, the Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose was forced to temporarily shut down Monday due to the volcanic ... Read More »

Researchers have successfully transferred quantum information from one network to another over several miles. The quantum information was transferred through commercial optical fiber networks. Two independent teams, one in Calgary, Canada, and another in Hefei, China, have used city optical fiber cables to teleport quantum information over 7 kilometers. That might not sound like much compared to previous feats, but ... Read More »

China’s first space station, the Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly Palace 1,” is expected to fall back to Earth in 2017. In a press conference last week, a senior official with the Chinese space program said the country’s first space station, Tiangong-1, which means “Heavenly Palace,” is expected to fall into the Earth’s atmosphere in the second half of 2017. Read More »

Atmospheric oxygen levels have declined over the past one million years, although not nearly enough to trigger any major problems for life on Earth, a new research finds. The research shows global O2 levels dropped by about 0.7 per cent, over the course of 800,000 years. Writing in Science, the researchers say over that period, oxygen sinks — factors that ... Read More »

The American Meteor Society website received more than 200 reported sightings, and a camera at a Quebec national park captured a photo. The fireball was seen primarily from Québec but witnesses from Ontario, New Brunswick, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire also reported the event. Read More »