For more than 80 years, physicists have sought out the truth behind one of the most contended theoretical phenomena, known simply as “Majorana particles”. And now with some superconducting iron particles, researchers from Princeton University believe that they have found the particles that at one are both matter and the elusive antimatter.
Seven-tenths of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans, and until now much of what lies below the surface has not been seen by human eyes. But using some of technology’s greatest advancements on-board the European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 satellite and NASA’s Jason-1 satellite, researchers of the University of California, San Diego have created an underwater map revealing mountains and ridges along the seafloor thanks to precise gravity measurements.
In a short few months, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta Mission has achieved new heights since it reached the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Once entering orbit, it took the first cosmic selfie, analyzed the surface of the comet, and even reported unexpected temperature and composition anomalies that have astronomers perplexed as to why this comet is not simply made of cosmic ice. But now Rosetta may have provided everyone on Earth with a recipe for creating a life-like comet like Churyumov-Gerasimenko: assuming you have a 3D printer.
It’s been a war brewing for the last few months, and Wyoming just entered its Hail Mary pass. Only a day after federal court judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Washington D.C. circuit announced that Gray Wolves would once again be inducted to the endangered species list, the state of Wyoming’s Game and Fish Commission appealed to the Secretary of State’s Office in hopes of commencing with its annual wolf-hunting season.
Facing a new threat of American Bullfrogs, a recent study published in the journal Aquatic Invasions shows that Yellowstone River situated in the state of Montana may see permanent damage left in the wake of the invading voracious species.
Increasingly the Ebola epidemic that began last march in West Africa has reached a global level of concern, even more so as the lethal virus has spread to the west. But as health organizations and governments throughout all of Africa divert resources to contain and treat the hemorrhagic fever that has claimed thousands already, they’re ignoring an even deadlier pathogen sitting on the sidelines: Malaria.
With the most decorated Olympic career in the sport of swimming, earning 18 Olympic gold medals while only in his 20’s, Michael Phelps was once America’s golden boy. But, with a known knack for lapses in judgment, he may soon find his legacy sinking in the pool under the weight of yet another DUI.
It’s been less than a week since the controversial headlines of Australia’s lackluster impression on the United Nations’ Climate Change Summit held in New York City, and already research is pouring in with evidence that is leaving many Australians stunned. Most of all, shock besets the Australian government, whose Prime Minister Tony Abbott decided to forego the formal UN proceedings of last week sending Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop in his stead, causing quite an uproar about the island nation’s stances on the issues.
While Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott received harsh criticism for sitting out last week’s Climate Summit held by the United Nations in New York City, and Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop withstood a barrage of slandering comments over Australia’s less than ambitious goals for climate change before 2020, new research released this Monday Sept. 29 reveals that the island nation’s recent scorching summers are likely a direct outcome related to greenhouse gas emissions.
After a doubtful entry into the Martian outer orbit, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission Mangalyaan also known as the Mars Orbiter Mission, has had all eyes tuned in from Earth to see what the newest Mars orbiter may reveal about the red planet. And after only a few days of live-coverage from Mars’ parts of space, it turns out that the Mars Orbiter Mission has revealed another red dust storm over the Northern hemisphere.
This past Thursday, Sept. 25 2014, United States Secretary of State John Kerry announced the expansion of a marine protected area (MPA), which in size is three times larger than the state of California. The new expansion an amendment to the Pacific remote Islands Marine National Monument covers nearly 490,000 square miles, and is six times larger than previously was. And it's a sign towards the U.S.'s greater efforts in conservation on a global scale. But the question remains: what can we expect to see in the remote atoll, and what species will we likely discover?
Continuing its mission to determine whether or not the atmosphere and environment of ancient Mars may have been a suitable host to cellular life forms, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity bore into the crust to find its answers late last week, on Wednesday Sept. 24. Utilizing its accessory drill piece for the fourth time since it first arrived in August 2012, Curiosity was able to acquire its first samples of the powdered Martian rock, drilling only 2.6 inches into the crust of the towering Mount Sharp.
While most of human existence still remains explainable by the evolutionary theory known as the “Out of Africa” theory, it turns out that our craftiness may have developed elsewhere as an invention necessary for survival. In a new study published in this week’s issue of the journal Science, researchers from the University of London along with an international team across most of the U.S. and Europe analyzed tools discovered in 2008 at the Nor Geghi site in the outskirts of Armenia.
While the conversation on the current and future changes in the climate are far from over, the United Nations (UN) has convened its discussion on the issue this week until the 2015 General Assembly that will be held in Paris. And as some nations felt unheard in their pleas at the Climate Summit held last Tuesday Sept. 23 in New York City, they’re turning up the heat on the global discourse looking for immediate solutions to the long-term problem.
Six months ago, in a remote village of Guinea, a 2-year-old boy mysteriously fell ill of a hemorrhagic fever. Now, since the December 2013 outbreak, the disease has spread to the largest, most lethal Ebola epidemic in history. And it has yet to show any signs of cessation.
This week, as the United Nations (UN) held its annual General Assembly regarding global warming and the changing climate, all eyes and ears turned towards New York City, where celebrities, protestors and world leaders all came together for the unified goal of changing the Earth’s future. Though while all nations in attendance were open to the call for change, some found themselves vilified far before their history’s could be written in the record books.
It’s been a war brewing for the last few months, and Wyoming just entered its Hail Mary pass. Only a day after federal court judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Washington D.C. circuit announced that Gray Wolves would once again be inducted to the endangered species list, the state of Wyoming’s Game and Fish Commission appealed to the Secretary of State’s Office in hopes of commencing with its annual wolf-hunting season.
Over its short-lived history, the United States has come to acquire a small list of territories outside of its continental limits. And as it happens some are more well-protected than others.
Documenting their findings in this week’s issue of the journal Nature, Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a multicellular fossil that predates the earliest of our known ancestors by nearly 60 million years; setting the evolutionary clock back quite a bit.
Pulling together the greatest resources in the world such as the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Kepler Space Telescope, one team of international astronomers caught the break they were looking for when they discovered clear skies and more importantly water vapor on a planet 122 light years outside of our very own solar system.