Category: Science
Scientists Are ‘Blown Away’ To Find A Feathered Dinosaur Tail Preserved In Amber
Researchers found a 99-million-year-old chunk of amber containing the feathered tail of a dinosaur. The remarkable discovery of the sample, which includes preserved bones, soft tissues and feathers, was made in 2015 at an amber market in Myanmar by the paleontologist Dr. Lida Xing from the China University of Geosciences…
Neuroscientist: Our Reality Is a Bunch of Hallucinations We Collectively Agree On
Anil Seth, a neuroscientist and director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, researches the biological basis of the otherwise ethereal topic of consciousness. When we think of hallucinations, we think of phenomena that are not real—created, in a way, by an aberration in our…
This Breathtaking Image Is A Real Photo Of Two Stars Destroying Each Other
The death of a binary star can be a spectacularly violent thing. This picture shows the binary system R Aquarii, a red giant throwing off its outer envelope, which is being greedily cannibalised by its companion, a much smaller, denser white dwarf. The dramatic moment you’re looking at unfolded just…
Youtuber Beats the Flat Earth $100,000 Challenge But Flat Earther Refuses to Pay
According To Scientists We Sneak Into Parallel Universes Through Our Dreams
Good News: Australia Found a Way to Save Water From Plastic Pollution And We Can Start Doing The Same
This past summer authorities from the Australian city of Kwinana installed a new filtration system in the Henley Reserve. This system is unbelievably simple and helpful. Both the government and the citizens have already seen the benefits of using it and they’re as content as can be. We loves innovations, especially those that are environmentally friendly, and would like…
Physicist Wins Ig Noble Prize For Study On Whether Cats Should Be Classified As Liquids Or Solids
A French physicist has won an Ig Nobel Prize for using mathematical formulas to determine whether cats are liquid or solid. The Ig Nobel prizes are awarded every year by Improbable Research, an organization devoted to science and humor. The goal is to highlight scientific studies that first make people…
The 2018 Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend! Here’s What to Expect
Come early Sunday morning (Nov. 18), the famous Leonid meteor shower will reach its peak, with lesser numbers expected on the preceding and following mornings. According to Margaret Campbell-Brown and Peter Brown in the 2018 Observer’s Handbook of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Earth will pass through the thickest…
The World’s First Heartless Human, Living Without A Pulse
A gentleman named Craig Lewis, a 55-year-old experiencing a life threatening heart disease, named “amyloidosis”, was admitted to the Texas Heart Institute. It’s a uncommon autoimmune disease that fills inner organs with a sticky protein that roots the quick heart, kidney and liver disaster. Without instant interference Lewis would have…