Category: Science
How will humanity react to alien life? Psychologists have some predictions.
Germs stuck to the outside of the International Space Station are not from around here, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov said in an interview last week with Russian state-owned news service Tass. Microbes “have come from outer space and settled along the external surface,” Shkaplerov said. “They are …
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Yeti identity mystery finally solved by scientists
Scientists have revealed the identity of the yeti, in “the most rigorous analysis to date” of specimens supposedly taken from the legendary …
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15,000 Scientists Beg Humans to Stop Killing Earth
(via HypnoArt/Pixabay) The brightest minds in the world would really like you to stop killing everyone. You may not think you are, but you are. I am …
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What Would Aliens Really Look Like? Here Are Some Hints From Evolution
Um, would they even have faces? We’re all a little obsessed about aliens. Lonely little Earthlings that we are, science and philosophy are bent on …
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Mass global extinction that wipes out human civilization will begin in 2100, mathematician predicts
A mass extinction which wipes out humanity will be underway by the year 2100, scientists have claimed. By the end of the century, it’s feared that so much carbon will have been added to the oceans that the planet will have passed a “threshold of catatastrophe” which leads to the destruction of our …
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Nibiru, Climate Change, and Other Pseudoscience
In four days, Nibiru will strike the Earth, raining destruction upon us all. September 23, 2017 to be precise. At least according to a YouTube video …
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Mysterious signal from deep space goes hyperactive
Scientists searching the cosmos for signs of intelligent alien life pick up the only known repeating “fast radio bursts” again and are asking others to tune in too. The unexplained signals from the other side of the universe known as fast radio bursts are a rarely observed phenomenon and only one of …
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Far-future tech: How to build a solar megastructure
Solar tech is big business. Physicist Isaac Arthur explains the path to building megastructures known as Dyson spheres, and how humans might harness …
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Galactic Map of Every Human Radio Broadcast Reveals How Isolated We Are
Those aliens better be nearby. Carl Sagan’s famous line from his 1990 speech about the Pale Blue Dot image—”Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark”—is an understatement. We might consider our Milky Way, with its estimated 100 to 400 billion stars, a significant fixture in …
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There’s a New Possible Explanation for the Weird Light Behavior of the ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star
Irregular Dips A team of scientists led by Mario Sucerquia at the University of Antioquia (UdeA) in Colombia have suggested a new explanation for the …
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Does cosmic silence mean aliens are extinct?
The universe is so unfathomably vast, it’s hard to believe there is no other form of intelligent life programming its own supercomputer or flying a …
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