Shakespeare once wrote “The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.” Concurring with the Bard, a recent paper in the journal Human Kinetics shows that the ratio between physical activity and sedentary activity has a greater impact on lifespan and healthspan than our genetic makeup. The study…
Read moreCast a net back 450 million years ago to the Ordovician Era, and you wouldn’t capture anything more than the ancestors of millipedes and worms. However, you might notice 29-feet-tall (8m) trunks without branches or leaves, towering over a landscape of newly-evolved vascular plants. These trunks, which have been found as…
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Need a gift for an outer space lover at home? Do you want to inspire a love of the cosmos in a classroom? Thanks to the most successful space mission ever completed by a Middle East country, a new atlas of Mars is available for researchers based on 3,000 images stitched…
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Entrepreneurs in Jordan have created a sophisticated machine that pulls water from the desert air at a rate that could cure the country’s water woes. 1,000 units of their flagship device have already been pre-ordered by the Jordanian government, and the success of the invention has allowed the innovators to attract…
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A lightning strike has produced a brand new phosphorus mineral, similar to that found on meteorites and in space. The bolt created a chemical reaction in a rock, leading to what could be a member of a new mineral group, somewhere between space minerals and minerals found on Earth. And researchers…
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For Todd Slatt, a.k.a the “Aurora Hunter” photographing the northern lights is nothing out of the ordinary, but last Saturday, he witnessed something emerging from the darkness of the night sky that shocked and inspired him. A spiral of pale blue light began to form in the distance, growing ever larger…
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Perhaps the most astonishing phenomenon ever discovered by astronomers was recently observed “accidentally” by the Hubble Space Telescope. What Hubble saw was a supermassive black hole three times the diameter of our whole galaxy, speeding through the universe so fast that it would pass the Earth and arrive at the Moon…
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