On April 12, 1961, the Russians sent Yuri Gagarin into orbit. Less than a month later, the United States did the same with Alan Shepard. We've come a long way since those first flights, but we've still got further to go. Where will NASA take us in the next 20 years? | Continue reading
Humans think using the brain’s navigation system. The system comprises two active cells: place cells in the hippocampus, and grid cells in the neighboring entorhinal cortex that work hand in hand to help us navigate, and think. | Continue reading
Salt makes food taste better by making them smell better. Adding salt to foods makes volatile compounds — molecules that evaporate quickly and often contribute to aroma of the food — to escape into the air. These compounds are important in our perception of flavor. | Continue reading
A consortium of physicists led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have successfully reversed the flow of time. | Continue reading
Physicist proposes, with mathematical proof, that artificial gravity can be created, controlled and detected at will using superconducting electromagnets. | Continue reading
Study says it takes about 6 liters of water to kill a person. Having known how much water will kill you, would you consider drinking this much a day? | Continue reading
Quantum physics is based on a theory called quantization, or the process of transitioning from an understand physical phenomena — like Newton's apple — to something we can't see or touch. In essence, quantum physics is the science of the smallest particles in the universe and how … | Continue reading
A study has identified the breeds of dog and physical traits that are most likely to bite children and cause most severe damage for bite. | Continue reading
Grammar Nazi, someone who constantly points out grammatical errors s/he observes online, has less agreeable personalities than the one who overlooks errors. | Continue reading
A proper thorium reactor would need a critical mass of principal fissile material: uranium-235 (U235), plutonium-239 (Pu239) or uranium-233 (U233), to run so that you can breed thorium-233 (Th232) into U233. Mind that the process of breeding U233 from Th232 (thorium fuel cycle) w … | Continue reading
The ultimate fate of the universe depends on - shape of the universe, amount of dark energy it holds, and change in its expansion rate. Based on these three things, cosmologists have come up with three possible scenarios that explain how the end of universe could come to be. They … | Continue reading
Scientists have taught an AI agent to infer its whole environment just by taking a few snapshots. It can also gather visual information that can then be used for, inter alia, search-and-rescue operations. Definitely a stuff of nightmare for alarmist technophiles and wannabe AI ex … | Continue reading
The paper consisted of just two succinct sentences and it rebutted a mathematical precedent known as Euler’s conjecture, a theory proposed by Leonhard Euler in 1769. | Continue reading