Researchers have finally deciphered a series of 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets – and the messages are not about bright hopes for the future, but almost exclusively about death, doom and darkness. The four clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script predict the death of kings and the fall of civilizations, according to a study recently published in […]
As director of the Carl Sagan Center for Research at the SETI Institute, astrobiologist Nathalie A. Cabrol focuses on answering the question of whether we are alone in the universe. In The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist’s Search for Life’s Origins and Limits, readers won’t get a definitive answer to that question, but […]
Sharon Kennedy Wynne | Tampa Bay Times Universal Orlando is conjuring up another wizarding land for its new Epic Universe theme park, currently under construction. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic will include both the magical London offices and the streets of 1920s Paris from the more recent Fantastic Beasts films, […]
Turtle returns home to AZ Ranch after escaping across the highway PINAL COUNTY, Arizona. – An adventurous turtle returned home on Sunday after being spotted on the side of the road. The turtle’s owner praises the driver and the quick response of Arizona DPS officers. “Someone called the highway patrol and said a turtle was […]
Image credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every summer, millions of people fly around the world on vacation. The United Nations World Tourism Organization estimates that international arrivals, the measure of global travel, will be 2% higher than pre-pandemic levels in 2019. However, as more people take vacations, some of the world’s tourist hotspots are more crowded […]
After 30 days, the algae in the middle were still single-celled. But when the scientists placed algae from increasingly thick rings under the microscope, they discovered larger clusters of cells. The very largest were bundles of hundreds. But what interested Simpson most were mobile clusters of four to 16 cells, arranged so that their flagella […]
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette | USA TODAY NETWORK Planting season means stress and joy for soybean and corn farmers in the Midwest Planting season brings stress and joy for Midwest soybean and corn farmers, including Jon Miller of Fairfield County, Ohio. Alaina Bell recently won first place in the Ohio Soybean Bioscience Award at State Science Day […]
Two astronauts currently stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) risk “life-changing” side effects if they remain in space until 2025, experts warn. On June 5, NASA test pilots Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams set off on an eight-day trip to the ISS. However, the new Boeing Starliner capsule that was supposed to bring […]
(MENAFN- The Conversation) Humanoid robots have long been a staple of science fiction, but now real progress is being made. A number of new models being developed or supported by companies such as Boston Dynamics, Tesla and OpenAI can walk and move like humans, with tremendous agility and dexterity. But it is the ability to […]
I don’t know if it happens to you, but as soon as I find out A film is about time travel or time loopsbecomes a top priority on my list of movies to watch. If it also has a good dose of comedy, absurdity and good acting, then we have already scheduled the screening. The […]
