Science - Part 4
Over the past 20 years, global scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in the area of animal cloning, with China announcing last week that it had become the first country in the world to clone a genetically engineered dog. ...[Read more]
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Ancient stone carvings confirm that a comet struck the Earth around 11,000BC, a devastating event which wiped out woolly mammoths and sparked the rise of civilisations. ...[Read more]
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The space rock, detected by the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System only three days before its remarkable flyby inside the lunar orbit, was Earth's third near-miss incident in just nine days, according to astronomers.
"It raises a few eyebr ...[Read more]
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Physicists have produced the first-ever blueprints for a large-scale quantum computer that could herald a technological revolution in computing.
If the industrial blueprint works, it could see the first super-fast quantum machine being built within a deca ...[Read more]
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The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared. Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope made comments which experts said put an end to the “pseudo theorie ...[Read more]
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Forget close encounters of a third kind. Imagine galactic encounters with millions of planets in the Milky Way galaxy, each of them overflowing with complex life forms. A new study says it's a possibility. ...[Read more]
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Two of the United States’ top astronomers appeared before Congress this week, telling lawmakers that the chance of discovering life on other planets is nearly inevitable, and that it may happen within two decades.
According to ABC News, Dan Werthimer of ...[Read more]
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Researchers in London have found a way to make matter from light, using high powered lasers. The idea behind the theory was first thought up 80 years ago by two physicists, who were to work later on creating the world's first atomic bomb. ...[Read more]
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A gigantic square hole has been video-captured on the Sun's surface by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The particularly large monstrosity, known as a coronal hole, is an indicator of solar winds ejected out of the star at insane speeds. ...[Read more]
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The sun could have a sibling according to researchers at the University of Texas, who believe the star was born from the same cloud of gas as our sun. It is hoped this could give astronomers fresh insights into how life on earth started. ...[Read more]
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Researchers say there is no evidence that modern humans' cognitive superiority led to demise of Neanderthals ...[Read more]
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