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The Latest, Most Precise Measurement of Antimatter Says The Universe Shouldn't Exist

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Study Suggests One Simple Factor Explains Why Water Is So Utterly Bizarre

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This Volcano Erupted For 5 Years Straight, And The Photos Are Mesmerising

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Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And We Finally Know How That's Possible

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There's Actually No Such Thing as Different 'Learning Styles', According to Science

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Most People Don't Know What Lowercase "G" Looks Like And We're Not Even Kidding

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There's a Detectable Human-Made Barrier Surrounding Earth

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A Second 'Big Bang' Could End Our Universe in an Instant, Thanks to The Higgs Boson

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Take a Look at SpaceX’s Ultra-Sleek New Spacesuit and Crew Dragon Spacecraft

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The CDC Is Warning About Resistant "Nightmare Bacteria" Spreading Through The US

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Lab-Created Miniature Brains Grow Their Own Blood Vessels

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FCC authorizes Elon Musk's SpaceX to provide broadband satellite services

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Scientists Have Managed To Separate Two Liquids From Each Other Using A Simple Laser

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A New State Of Matter Has Been Found That Is More Quantum Than Classical

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Bright Spots on Ceres May Be Evidence of Aliens, Says NASA

Active worlds can turn up in unexpected places. For proof, look no further than the mysterious dwarf planet Ceres. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been exploring Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter since March 2015, and review of images Dawn has returned reveals that the dwarf planet is no mere hunk of dead rock. "The mysterious bright spots on Ceres, which have captivated both the Dawn science team and the public, reveal evidence of Ceres' past subsurface ocean, and indicate that, far from being a dead world, Ceres is surprisingly active," said Carol Raymond, Manager of the Small Bodies Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Geological processes created these bright areas and may still be changing the face of Ceres today." NASA researchers explain that the most reflective spots, found at the bases of craters—especially the Occator Crater—demonstrate salt-rich material, which was likely once mixed with wa...

This Awesome Periodic Table Tells You How to Actually Use All Those Elements

(Keith Enevoldsen) Thanks to high school, we've all got a pretty good idea about what's on the periodic table. But whether you're looking at something common like calcium, iron, and carbon, or something more obscure like krypton and antimony, how well do you know their functions? Could you name just one practical application for vanadium or ruthenium? Lucky for us, Keith Enevoldsen from elements.wlonk.com has come up with this awesome periodic table that gives you at least one example for every single element (except for those weird superheavy elements that don't actually exist in nature). There's thulium for laser eye surgery, cerium for lighter flints, and krypton for flashlights. You've got strontium for fireworks, and xenon for high-intensity lamps inside lighthouses. Oh and that very patriotic element, americium? We use that in smoke detectors. First unveiled in 1945 during the Manhattan Project , americium is produced by bombarding plu...

There's Actually No Such Thing as Different 'Learning Styles', According to Science

kf4851/iStock When I was at school, a fair amount of time was put into determining our "learning styles." Teachers told us that some people learn better visually with pictures, whereas others retained information by reading or making notes. To be honest, I never worked out what mine was. In a survey, 96 percent of teachers were found to believe in learning styles. But it turns out this theory is nonsense. According to experts on the topic such as Harold Pashler and Doug Rohrer, there is very little scientific evidence that different methods of learning impact a person's academic results. In fact, a lot of research, such as this study published in the journal Learning and Individual Differences, has found that learning styles are probably a myth. A new paper, spotted by BPS Digest and published in the journal Anatomical Sciences Education, is what the researchers call the "nail in the coffin" for the theory. Researchers from the Indiana Uni...

Bizarre New Study Suggests Octopuses Came From Outer Space

OLGA VISAVI/SHUTTERSTOCK Octopuses are weird. Some would say even out of this world . And if you can't explain something it might as well be aliens, right? That's what a mindbogglingly controversial paper in the journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology has claimed. It says octopuses ( not octopi ) are so complex, they can only be explained by extraterrestrial life. Spoiler: they can't. The paper includes a whopping 33 researchers (although notably zero zoologists ) including a chap called Chandra Wickramasinghe. He's a proponent of the idea of directed panspermia – that life on our planet began when it was seeded by alien microbes – and he pops up a lot . He’s tried to prove it in the past, without success . There is no evidence for such a theory being true. That hasn’t stopped this latest paper being written, which asks whether the Cambrian explosion was “terrestrial or cosmic”. The Cambrian explosion was an event 500 million year...

Study Suggests One Simple Factor Explains Why Water Is So Utterly Bizarre

FLORIDASTOCK/SHUTTERSTOCK A new study, led by the Universities of Bristol and Tokyo, has concluded that a single, simple factor makes water “so anomalous and special,” and in the process may have solved a longstanding mystery. It may come as a surprise to you that there are still aspects about plain, regular water that elude the world’s greatest minds, but to scientists, this colorless substance is something of a headscratcher. Water isn’t normal for a liquid. We may think it is because of its apparent ubiquity, but it demonstrates a range of properties that are a little unorthodox. Unlike plenty of other liquids, water has a ludicrously high specific heat capacity, which means it takes a remarkable amount of energy to heat up – something that affects our climate, the environment, and life. It’s physically quite weird in many other ways. It’s most dense when it’s just 4°C (39.2°F); cooling it makes it expand rather than contract. This means that its solid form floats ato...

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