Spooky quantum entanglement just got spookier. Entanglement is a weird statewhere two particles remain intimately connected, even when separated over vast distances, like two die that must always show the same numbers when rolled. For the first time, scientists have entangled particles after...

What our sense connectedness has to do with the osmosis of rationality and intuition   “Some of the most creative leaps ever taken by the human mind are decidedly irrational, even primal. Emotive forces are what drive the greatest artistic and inventive expressions of our species. How...

You probably don’t know what the Alcubierre warp drive is, but that’s cool. This is called the Learnin’ Corner for a reason—to pick up where our poorly-funded public education system petered to a halt in your life, and quell your eager and absorbent mind with obscure knowledge that you...

Energy is a fundamental necessity for life, let alone a vigorous society or civilization. This fact has been recognized by humans for a very long time — Sun, Wind, Fire and Water (in the form of rivers and waterfalls and rain), worshipped by most cultures, are manifestations of energy in one...

Scientists have used a laser to create magnetic fields similar to those thought to be involved in the formation of the first galaxies; findings that could help to solve the riddle of how the Universe got its magnetism. Magnetic fields exist throughout galactic and intergalactic space, what is...

The human mind has been long concerned about the existence of other parallel worlds. While many people still consider it nothing more than a weird scientific fantasy, a certain number of scientists nowadays not only are ready to take this hypothesis seriously but also find evidence in favour...

“The essence of chaos … simply deals with predictability in complex systems. The shorthand is the Butterfly Effect. A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking, and in Central Park you get rain instead of sunshine.” – Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park   I first heard...

Andrei Linde, Father of “Eternal Chaotic Inflation”; Professor of Physics, Stanford University   “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” This is one of the most famous quotes from Albert Einstein. “The fact that it is...

Radical Theory Explains the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life, Challenges Conventional Wisdom   The earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that...

Why is there something rather than nothing? That’s the question cosmologist Lawrence Krauss tackles in his new book, A Universe from Nothing. In it, he surveys the discoveries that have led to scientists’ current understanding of the universe, and explores what the future of the...

The Sumerian, Egyptian, Mayan, Judaic, Muslim, Nordic, Hindu, and pretty much most all major world religions that have spanned for thousands of years… all are based on a fundamental concept. Now, we have new Mayan tablets talking about December 21st, 2012 being the “End of Time...

A group of three researchers from KEK, Shizuoka University and Osaka University has for the first time revealed the way our universe was born with 3 spatial dimensions from 10-dimensional superstring theory in which spacetime has 9 spatial directions and 1 temporal direction. This result was...

But Don’t Pack Your Bags The “habitable zone” in astronomy-speak is the area around a star where liquid water could exist. It’s not, like, some cozy astronaut campground off in the cosmos. We know now for sure that about 600 light years away the planet known as Kepler-22b orbits in...

NASA’s robotic exploration of the solar system is heavily focused on either finding life or at least potentially-habitable planets. To this end, one priority has been to follow the water: find water, find life right? But another important aspect in the search for otherworldly life is a...

Researchers in Japan have developed what may be the first string-theory model with a natural mechanism for explaining why our universe would seem to exist in three spatial dimensions if it actually has six more. According to their model, only three of the nine dimensions started to grow at the...

Meat left out too long will eventually bear maggots or mold. These days we know the maggots hatch from fly eggs and the mold grows from spores that were carried in the air, but in the past the fuzzy growth and wriggling white bodies were proof that whole organisms could spontaneously arise...

You wait decades for discoveries that could revolutionise physics, then three come along at once “THE universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose,” as geneticist J. B. S. Haldane once remarked. In recent decades, physicists have done their best to...

While the idea remains hotly debated, some of the brightest minds in contemporary physics take very seriously the possibility that our universe is just one among many. How did this notion of multiple universes—a multiverse—arise? Could we ever cross over to other universes, and if we...

Turns out creating light isn’t such a divine act after all. Not in the sense of powering on a lightbulb or firing up a star or discharging some static electricity. No, creating light in the Genesis “let there be light” sense. Light from nothing at all. This is, essentially, the...

In their hunt for the most distant galaxies ever detected, astronomers have assembled the first timeline for a dramatic phase in early cosmic history using new observations from a European-built telescope. The new timeline covers a period in the early universe known as re-ionization, which...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said American Saul Perlmutter would share the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award with U.S.-Australian Brian Schmidt and U.S. scientist Adam Riess “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant...

The commerical space pioneer Jeff Bezos — better known as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com — hasn’t let the failure of a unmanned rocket dampen his ardor for building a business that will be able to take passengers to the edge of outer space. And he’s working to get...

Domino’s pizza has announced plans to conquer the final frontier by opening the first pizza restaurant on the Moon Domino’s Japanese arm has proposed a branch on Earth’s nearest galactic neighbour is the latest escalation in a pizza publicity war. Rival chain Pizza Hut set...

The first nuclear power plant being considered for production of electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets “may really look like it came from outer space.” On earth, nuclear reactors are under attack because of concerns over damage caused by natural...

What is this thing we call the universe? Sounds like a trivial question, nothing to worry about. Or, as a cynic would say, “Who cares?” It turns out that understanding the nature of the universe goes hand in hand with our understanding of who we are and how we fit into nature. To...

Aside from the Earth, Mars is the easiest planet in our solar system on which to land; there isn’t a crushing superheated atmosphere like on Venus, and there is a solid surface, unlike gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. That said, it’s still pretty tough. More than half of all missions...

The components of DNA have now been confirmed to exist in extraterrestrial meteorites, researchers announced A different team of scientists also discovered a number of molecules linked with a vital ancient biological process, adding weight to the idea that the earliest forms of life on Earth...

How an ore-mining town in Sweden sees a new identity over the horizon. On paper, the Swedish town of Kiruna seems an unlikely place to build Europe’s first commercial spaceport. Located 90 miles above the Arctic Circle and nearly 600 miles north of Stockholm, Kiruna boasts a staggering set...

Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars “NASA’s Mars Exploration Program keeps bringing us closer to determining whether the Red Planet could harbor life in some form,” NASA Administrator...

What do these three things have in common: space debris elimination using an air gun, a heat shield made from lunar regolith and lightweight space structures made from ultra-light nanomaterials called “Photonic Muscle?” They are just three of thirty new concepts that NASA has provided...

The existence of a significant flux of antiprotons confined to Earth’s magnetosphere has been considered in several theoretical works. These antiparticles are produced in nuclear interactions of energetic cosmic rays with the terrestrial atmosphere and accumulate in the geomagnetic field...

The theory that our universe isn’t limitless, but is actually contained within a celestial bubble that bounces off of other universal bubbles in a multiverse, has gained traction with physicists in recent years. The only problem has been proving a multiverse actually exists. Imagine the...

Some astronomers say there could be tens of thousands of planets with life on them that we’ll have the capability of detecting soon. Or now. Some say there’s probably just a few. Not many are saying that there’s probably none, at least not very loudly. Well, a new paper from David...

Scientists engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) work under the assumption that there is, in fact, intelligent life out there to be found. A new analysis may crush their optimism. To calculate the likelihood that they’ll make radio contact with extraterrestrials,...

Sean Carroll, Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time points out that the universe functions according to rules based on the state of the universe and the laws of the universe. The world consists of things, which obey rules. If...

How Many Sailors Does it Take to Recover an Astronaut? Images of splashdowns have become iconic of the space race era; an Apollo command module suspended under its three red and white parachutes as it hits the Pacific Ocean have the power to invoke feelings of pride with an epic American...

This probably is the fundamental question of physics, what is matter? To answer this one important question, some of the best scientific minds in the world spent countless hours, many billions of dollars, to build technological netherworld, one very big scientific instrument, specifically, a...

It’s been scarcely a decade since science discovered that the universe is not only expanding but expanding faster and faster, theorizing further that the culprit is a strange unknown something called dark energy. Dark energy is the biggest part of our universe, making up nearly...

NASA has launched a mission to Jupiter that will shed light on the origin and inner structure of the largest planet in our solar system. The $1.1bn Juno probe was launched today from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 12.25 p.m. local time and will now begin a five-year journey to the planet. Juno,...

America’s space shuttle program is winding down. The Endeavor’s last flight will happen soon (in May, it seems, but it keeps getting delayed). Then, in June, the Atlantis will make the final shuttle flight ever when it takes four astronauts on a 12-day mission to the International...