We have not relied on natural light from the Sun since the invention of the light bulb in 1879. Today, many people spend most of the day not only in artificially lit …
Read More »The whitest paint in the world reflects 98.1% of the light. Could help in the climate fight
A new formula for white paint has given us the whitest white yet. It reflects a staggering 98.1 percent of all light that hits it, staying significantly cooler than room temperature, even …
Read More »NASA’s Insight Mars Lander is ‘in crisis’ and has entered emergency hibernation
NASA’s $ 800 million Mars lander is in an energy crisis. InSight, which landed on a Martian plain called Elysium Planitia in 2018, detected more than 500 earthquakes on Mars, felt more …
Read More »A buried chunk of alien world could be behind a weak point in Earth’s magnetic field
Earth’s geomagnetic armor has a crack and is growing. A weak point in our planet’s magnetic field, located over the southern Atlantic Ocean, has grown in size over the past two centuries …
Read More »Over 4,000 blood tests suggest that our bodies age in 3 different changes
In terms of biological aging, the body appears to shift gears three times during our lifetime, 2019 research suggests, with 34 years, 60 years and 78 years as key thresholds. In other …
Read More »This stunning animation shows why Saturn’s rings are like a ‘mini solar system’
If star-jumping aliens ever visited our solar system, Saturn is probably the planet they would remember. The seven giant rings that surround its equator make Saturn the most distinct planet orbiting the …
Read More »An exploding star 65 light-years away from Earth could have caused a mass extinction
Life was trying, but it wasn’t working. As the late Devonian period progressed, more and more living things went extinct, culminating in one of the largest mass extinction events our planet has …
Read More »Scientists believe that we can ‘slow down’ the aging process, but how far can we really go?
As we age, many changes occur in our body, we become brittle, our hair turns white, and our skin wrinkles. We also become more susceptible to disease and can lose our cognitive …
Read More »Fierce new predatory dinosaur unearthed in Patagonia
An excavation in Argentina has unearthed a previously undiscovered species of dinosaur, and the tyrannosaurus-like predator has been given a name that fits what we know so far: Llukalkan aliocranianus, or ‘the …
Read More »The melting of the ice sheets 14,600 years ago caused the seas to rise 10 times faster than today
The melting of the ice sheet at the end of the last ice age may have caused sea levels to rise 10 times the current rate, according to a study published Thursday …
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