The largest prime number has been discovered — and it’s 17,425,170 digits long. The new prime number crushes the last…
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(I) There seems to be considerable confusion regarding the Alexanderson Network as a high frequency antenna for radio communications. I…
A piece in the current issue of Mother Jones makes a compelling case that lead, the element, can be traced…
By Rob Waugh A ten-year project in Europe will use supercomputers to simulate the workings of an entire human brain…
According to several thinkers, scientists, and inventors human immortality by 2045 or even as early as 2029 is not only…
By David Ferguson A NASA flight director has revealed that personnel on the ground knew in 2003 that the Space…
MyScienceAcademy Some of you may recall an article I wrote the other day (linked in the “Further Reading” section below)…
Iran has successfully launched a live monkey into space, the state news agency IRNA said on Monday, touting it as…
Worried about the environmental impact of space debris? Retired satellites that continue to orbit the Earth will soon be reused…
Robert Bigelow got rich off budget hotel suites that start at $189 a week. Now they are funding his dream…
By Jason Palmer A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a quantum physics effect has received a boost,…
Paleontologists routinely resurrect and sequence DNA from woolly mammoths and other long-extinct species. Future paleontologists, or librarians, may do much…
A British businessman who lost his nose to skin cancer is having a new one grown in his arm using…
A giant ice cap up to 3,800 meters (2,361 miles ) thick covers about 99 % of the Antarctic continent,…
South Korea has embarked on the development of a preliminary concept design for a fusion power demonstration reactor in collaboration…
If a group of scientists are correct, tiny fossils uncovered inside a meteorite found in Sri Lanka in December are…
As people age, their brain tends to shrink and their memory gets worse. But what if this deterioration weren’t inevitable?…
New protocol advances solutions for more efficient teleportation – the transport of quantum information at the speed of light. For…