The most accepted hypothesis for the formation of the moon involves a giant collision between the Earth and another Mars-sized planetary body about 4.5 billion […]
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To infinity and beyond! Father and son team capture amazing space footage – using weather balloon they built in their back garden
Schoolboy Cameron, 12, and his dad designed and built the inflatable to carry an array of cameras and devices up to 100,000ft to capture photos […]
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The Spirit Radio That Creeped Out Nikola Tesla
Tesla’s Spirit Radio uses a simple crystal radio circuit connected to a computer sound-in jack to generate spooky sounds from all kinds of electromagnetic sources. […]
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Virgin Galactic Cleared For Takeoff
Who wants to go to space? If you’ve got a spare $250,000 lying around, then you can now purchase a ticket with the commercial spaceflight […]
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The Real-Life Science Behind The Summer’s Most Outrageous Sci-Fi Movies
Mechanized suits, alien apes, dinosaur robots — this summer’s blockbusters are brimming with scientific-sounding conceits. But is there any real science to back them up? […]
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First contact made with ‘zombie’ ISEE-3 spacecraft
A team of scientists who were given the go-ahead by Nasa to crowd-fund the revival of a seemingly ‘dead’ spacecraft have announced their mission was […]
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What Happens If You Apply Electricity to the Brain of a Corpse?
Some habits die hard. Like humans zapping their brains. We did this back in Ancient Greece, when medics used electric fish to treat headaches and […]
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U.S. Military’s ‘Iron Man’ Suit Prototype Debuts This Month
Move over, Tony Stark — the military could soon have its own “Iron Man” suit, a robotic exoskeleton designed to augment human abilities on the […]
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The Kingdom of Machines
For anyone thinking about the future relationship between nature-man-machines I’d like to make the case for the inclusion of an insightful piece of fiction to […]
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Human Suspended Animation Trials To Kick Off
Suspended animation – an area of discussion that has been explored many times over in science fiction movies, allowing us humans to travel across great […]
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Mind Controlling Fungus Turns Insects into Zombies
If you have played the game Last of Us on PS3, you’d know that the game is set in a time 20 years after a […]
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X-Men fan inspired by Marvel villain Magneto builds magnetic shoes to walk UPSIDE DOWN | Weird | News | Daily Express
BEING able to walk on the ceiling might sound like something reserved for a superhero, but one sci-fi fanatic has created his own magnetic shoes […]
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Skeptics will always face an uphill struggle against pseudoscience
“We can’t afford to advocate rationalism with the same brashness and rudeness displayed by some pseudoscientists, because our truths are sadly less welcome than their […]
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The brilliant and tortured world of Nikola Tesla
Imagine being stricken with blinding flashes of light that envelop your mind and fill your brain, but in those blinding flashes is contained a vision […]
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11 Traits All Aliens Probably Have According to Science
What features, according to scientists, would visitors from outer space have? In recent decades, as mankind endlessly talks about alien life, it seems that the […]
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Real Vampires
Is there a scientific basis for the existence of vampires? A certain website—Steve Leighton’s http://www.Vampirewebsite.net—would have you believe there is. There’s even a Facebook page […]
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The Neuroscientist Who Wants To Upload Humanity To A Computer
Everything felt possible at Transhuman Visions 2014, a conference in February billed as a forum for visionaries to “describe our fast-approaching, brilliant, and bizarre future.” […]
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Alcohol and drugs: Not just for modern humans
Unlike most modern humans, the prehistoric people of Europe did not use mind-altering substances simply for their hedonistic pleasure. Researchers contend that their use was […]
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Is Paranormal Experience the Result of Geomagnetic Energy Acting on our Brains?
Quite some time ago, almost exactly a year ago actually, I wrote a piece speculating on the effect of increased solar activity on paranormal experience. […]
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Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact: Intelligent Clothing
The new Omsignal Shirt from OM is made of form-fitting fabric with monitoring sensors that can track the wearer’s heart rate, burned calories, respiratory volume […]
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Sprites form at plasma irregularities in the lower ionosphere
Atmospheric sprites have been known for nearly a century, but their origins were a mystery. Now, a team of researchers has evidence that sprites form […]
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FDA Approves ‘Star Wars’ Robotic Arm For Amputees – Business Insider
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of a robotic arm for amputees that is named for the “Star Wars” character Luke […]
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What would it look like if a person fell into a volcano? | I Fucking Love Science
Apparently, some of you felt that the video we showed you yesterday of lava meeting a can of coke was anti-climatic. I have to admit, […]
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Demo of mind-controlled exoskeleton planned for World Cup
The World Cup opening ceremony next month in Brazil in and of itself will be enough to make June 12 a standout for athletes and […]
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United Nations to Debate ‘Should We Ban Killer Robots?’
Experts are to debate the morality of using killer robots in war in a meeting at the United Nations base in Geneva.With the technology needed […]
