A neutrino event, identifiable by the rings of Cerenkov radiation that show up along the photomultiplier tubes lining the detector walls, showcase the successful methodology of neutrino astronomy. This image shows multiple events.Super Kamiokande collaboration Sometimes, the best-designed experiments fail. The effect you’re looking for might not even occur, meaning that a null result should
They were called the Hòabìnhian: an ancient society of hunter-gatherers who populated Southeast Asia for some 40,000 years, until the dawn of agriculture around four millennia ago. When the farms came, the age-old ways of these prehistoric foragers disappeared into history, but it’s never been settled how their time on Earth drew to a close.
Data recorded during Cassini’s final months is still giving us gold. New research from the probe’s Grand Finale mission has uncovered a previously unknown interaction between Saturn and its moon Enceladus – plasma waves, travelling between the two. When Cassini drew ever closer to Saturn before plunging to its demise amongst the planet’s storms, it
Traces of fossilised chlorophyll detected inside seriously ancient rocks have shattered records for the oldest sample of an organic pigment by 600 million years. And that pigment was a fetching shade of pink. Not only does the find provide tangible evidence of ancient photosynthesis, analysis of the compounds indicates they were left behind by bacteria,
Visitors to the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) were in for an incredibly rare treat in June, when its resident corpse flower burst into bloom. And for those of us who couldn’t get there, the garden staff recorded the event in a spectacular timelapse. The corpse flower or titan arum – Amorphophallus titanum (a name
One of the largest icebergs ever documented is still mostly intact one year after it broke off Antarctica, despite losing a big chunk and having its northern flank smashed to bits. The huge ice block, called A68 or A68a, calved from the Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017. It’s hard to say exactly when
Some divers rescuing the boys trapped in a cave in northern Thailand have traversed about 10 miles (16 km) over the past two days. The second shift of the rescue effort to evacuate the trapped soccer team saw a team of 18 Thai and international divers guide four boys about 2 1/2 miles (4 kilometres) to
Will Townsend HPE Aruba logo. Before I was a tech analyst, I spent many years in product marketing at Dell , Compaq, and HP , on both the consumer and enterprise sides of the business. As such, I tend to geek out on technology. Naturally, I jumped at the invitation to tour Hewlett Packard Enterprise ’s
(Photo by: Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images) What are the pros and cons of residential energy customers switching to solar? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Yogi Goswami, Director, Clean Energy Research Center, USF, on Quora:
NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz (STScI) The giant elliptical galaxy at the center of galaxy cluster Abell S1063 is much larger and more luminous than the Milky Way is, but many other galaxies, even smaller ones, will outshine it. With some 400 billion stars burning steadily, the Milky Way is just a typical galaxy in
Astronomers have found the brightest object ever discovered in the early Universe, 13 billion light-years away – a quasar from a time when our Universe was just seven percent of its current age. A quasar is a galaxy that orbits a supermassive black hole actively feeding on material. The light and radio emissions we see are
A man and a woman were found unconscious in Wiltshire, England, on July, after having been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok. This is the same substance that was used to poison the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March. The second incidence of poisonings has reignited fear and speculation about the
Crows and ravens do not get along. The two corvid species, while very similar to each other, are often at loggerheads. But according to new research, it’s not the larger ravens that are the aggressors. As it turns out, crows – the smaller of the two – are instigating 97 percent of the altercations between
If you’re a vocal science lover, there’s one question we’re pretty sure you’ve been asked at least once: “If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?” Most people pause for a second before spilling out the facts on natural selection, common ancestors, and each species adapting to its unique ecosystem. But while that’s
What was your first memory? It’s never a memory of being a baby – most people’s earliest memory is from when they were around three or four years old. But why can we not remember our infant memories? And are they really lost, or just forgotten? A team of neuroscientists from the University of Toronto
When Sudan the white rhino was put down by his carers earlier this year, it confirmed the extinction of one of the savannah’s most iconic subspecies. Despite decades of effort from conservationists, including a fake Tinder profile for the animal dubbed “the most eligible bachelor in the world”, Sudan proved an unwilling mate and died
Elon Musk is testing equipment designed to help rescue the remaining members of a Thai youth soccer team who are trapped in a cave, the Tesla CEO tweeted on Sunday. Hours after four boys were confirmed to have been rescued from the cave, Musk tweeted a video of a small submarine-like vessel being tested in
The first four boys who were trapped in the cave in Thailand have been rescued and are in “perfect” health. The boys had to travel about 2.5 miles (4 kilometres) with oxygen tanks, tethered to cave divers to exit. About 0.6 miles (1 kilometre) of the journey was underwater, where everyone had to wear full
PAHOA, HAWAII – JULY 02: People aboard Lava Ocean Tour’s boat, ‘Hot Shot,’ off shore of what used to be Kapoho Bay, watch as lava flows into the ocean after traveling down from Fissure No. 8, near the Leilani Estates community in the Kilauea Lower East Rift Zone, on Monday, July 2, 2018 in Pahoa,
Authorities on Sunday began the lengthy process of extracting a group of boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand, racing against impending rains to free them more than two weeks after the group was trapped there. The boys and the coach will dive out of the cave one at a
Why do many problems in life seem to stubbornly stick around, no matter how hard people work to fix them? It turns out that a quirk in the way human brains process information means that when something becomes rare, we sometimes see it in more places than ever. Think of a “neighborhood watch” made up
PAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) – Dressed in heavy cotton, a helmet and respirator, Jessica Ball worked the night shift monitoring “fissure 8,” which has been spewing fountains of lava as high as a 15-story building from a slope on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano. A geologist is collecting sample of molten lava from 2011 Kamoamoa eruption, at Kilauea
The tropics are quite active this morning. As the weekend draws to a close, meteorologists like me are tracking Super-Typhoon Maria, Tropical Storm Beryl, and the newly formed Tropical Storm Chris. Each of these storms brings unique threats. However, I could not overlook the fact that a current storm named Maria is bearing down on
June 23 a group of twelve boys together with her soccer coach entered the “Great Cave of the Sleeping Lady” (Tham Luang Nang Non), located in the Chiang Rai province in northern Thailand. In 1988 a French team of cave explorers mapped for the first time the cave, some years later a British team discovered
Credit: NASA Artist’s depiction, Kepler-1652b. The list is getting longer. Space scientists just added two more worlds to the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog—the online database ranking the best picks for life in the galaxy. 55 planets now make the list—all places where extraterrestrials may exist. Or perhaps not; maybe nothing lives on any of them, not
In the coming decades, NASA and other space agencies hope to mount some ambitious missions to other planets in our Solar System. In addition to studying Mars and the outer Solar System in greater detail, NASA intends to send a mission to Venus to learn more about the planet’s past. This will include studying Venus’
In the beginning, the solar system was little more than a cloud of dust and gas. Then cold temperatures caused the center of the cloud to collapse, forming the Sun. The newborn star lit up with nuclear fusion, sending light and heat out into the spinning circumstellar disk. Soon that material coalesced into gas planets,
Starting your morning by focusing on the stress to come may harm your mindset throughout the day, according to a new study. The researchers found that when participants woke up feeling like the day ahead would be stressful, their working memory—which helps people learn and retain information even when they’re distracted—was lower later in the
For years, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama had whispered about the remote island where monkeys used stone tools. A botanist had witnessed the phenomenon during a long-ago survey — but, being more interested in flora than fauna at the time, she couldn’t linger to investigate. A return to the site would
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center A planet that is a candidate for being inhabited will no doubt experience catastrophes and extinction events on it. If life is to survive and thrive on a world, it must possess the right intrinsic and environmental conditions to allow it to be so. While there are hundreds of billions
In June 2017, physicists achieved ‘liquid light’ at room temperature for the first time ever, making this strange form of matter more accessible than ever. This matter is both a superfluid, which has zero friction and viscosity, and a kind of Bose-Einstein condensate - sometimes described as the fifth state of matter – and it allows light to actually flow
When the warmer weather strikes, our gardens and outdoor spaces become a perfect oasis for rest and relaxation. But as nice as the hot weather might be, extreme conditions and record-breaking temperatures can wreak havoc on your plants. There’s of course no question, that when it’s hot, plants will need watering, but knowing when’s the
The Pine Island Glacier is known to be the fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica, responsible for around a quarter of the continent’s ice loss. According to new research though, a warming planet isn’t the only reason the glacier is losing ice. Based on an analysis of the water surrounding the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which the
Shutterstock Medically speaking, what would happen if a person were to be given a blood transfusion using a blood type other than their own? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Ivan Zeitz, Anesthesiologist at CPMC Hospital, on
(Photo by TPG/Getty Images) What are some new trends in solar energy research and development in 2018? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Yogi Goswami, Director, Clean Energy Research Center, USF, on Quora: Before I answer the
Most experts adjusted their projections for the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season because one of the primary formation regions has exhibited cooler than normal sea surface temperatures. There has also been some discussion about whether a potentially emerging El Nino (warmer than normal sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean) will impact activity. Even with
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook attends the Viva Tech startup and technology gathering at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 24, 2018 in Paris, France. The VivaTech exhibition brings together nearly 1,800 startups alongside the largest international groups. Photo by Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images. Facebook has confirmed its purchase of Bloomsbury.ai,
Solar System exploration isn’t what it used to be. In the old days, various government agencies did all the space exploring. The 12 people who walked on the moon relied on government-run transportation. Now we’re in the era of New Space, and entrepreneurs want to race ahead to the moon and Mars on private spacecraft.
The whale shark is the largest fish in the world, but much of its lifecycle remains shrouded in mystery. These gentle giants gather in just a handful of places around the globe – something which has long baffled scientists – but our new research has started to explain why. Better understanding of whale shark movements
They wandered in from Siberia a few thousand years after humans first undertook the same perilous journey onto the North American continent, looking for a new home. For millennia the two species shared the land. Perhaps even hunted together. And then, for some reason, the first non-wolf dogs to set foot in the New World
It was one heck of a Thursday for the John Hopkins Hospital researchers in Baltimore, Maryland, after a tuberculosis (TB) scare evacuated multiple buildings. At around 12 pm, a vial of frozen Mycobacterium tuberculosis was dropped onto the floor in an internal bridge that connects the hospital’s Cancer Research Building 1 to Cancer Research Building
The remains were so mauled, it’s hard to say how many of them there were. But Nick Fox, the owner of an eco reserve along South Africa’s Sunshine Coast, suspects at least three rhino poachers were killed in the early hours of Monday morning, when a pride of lions savagely descended on the park’s criminal
From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their hottest weather ever recorded over the past week. Large areas of heat pressure or heat domes scattered around the hemisphere led to the sweltering temperatures. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports
Authorities have been able to drain some of the water from the cave where a Thai soccer team has been trapped for 12 days, which may allow the team to avoid using diving equipment and almost walk out. Rescuers can now enter the cave up until the third chamber located about 1.5 kilometers (1 mile)
Energy Personality: Hannah Olmberg-Soesman Today I interview Hannah Olmberg-Soesman, winner of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Energy Personality Award. Olmberg-Soesman received the inaugural award for her exceptional contribution to a sustainable energy future in the region. A dynamic entrepreneur with a background in social work and a master degree in law, Hannah Olmberg-Soesman has managed to
The mine of Naica, in the state of Chihuahua (Mexico), was opened in 1828 to mine for lead, zinc and silver ore. In 1910 a natural cave was discovered, named later Cueva de las Espadas, the Cave of Swords. The name derives from three feet large blade-like gypsum crystals (calcium-sulfate) completely covering the walls of
The internet isn’t your phone. It’s not Instagram, YouTube, or Netflix. Behind those apparitions, the internet is actually a sprawling matrix of hundreds of undersea data cables, criss-crossing the ocean for some 885,000 km (550,000 miles). That’s where your Facebook and FOMO come from. But those hidden conduits aren’t just useful for relaying data –
Shortly after midnight on 26 April 1986, the name Chernobyl became synonymous with nuclear disaster. A nuclear power station in northern Ukraine exploded after a safety test, casting a radioactive shadow over the land. The literal and figurative fallout of the event continues to inspire a strange mix of fear and hope over the risks
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