Summary: Consciousness can not simply be reduced to neural activity alone, researchers say. A novel study reports the dynamics of consciousness may be understood by a newly developed conceptual and m… [+10281 chars]
A potentially hazardous asteroid will be shooting near the Earth today . The space rock, called 2015FF, has an estimated diameter of 13 to 28 metres. Travelling near the Earth at 33,010kph, it will… [+788 chars]
Scientists say they have found the strongest evidence yet that the continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that happened during the first billion years of Earths four-and-a-half-billion-yea… [+1472 chars]
A new analysis of seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises. The first surprise: the top 300 meters of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian… [+5118 chars]
A team of scientists from Georgia Tech say they've built a robot that can move without anything to push against - a discovery that seems to violate the law of conservation momentum. The researchers… [+3897 chars]
The sky turns dark, a heavy rain falls and a bolt of lightning crackles through the air. But instead of striking down toward the ground, or zipping sideways between clouds, this lightning bolt does s… [+3934 chars]
The Jargon File is "a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor." The first version was compiled in 1975 by a computer scientist at … [+3844 chars]
More than 5,000 planets exist beyond our solar system, according to NASA, and this week astronomers announced they may have discovered the youngest one so far. Scientists using the Atacama Large Mil… [+3083 chars]
The Jargon File is "a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor." The first version was compiled in 1975 by a computer scientist at … [+3844 chars]
Astronomers have long considered Betelgeuse a candidate for a long-overdue supernova within our galaxy. Yet the red supergiant now appears to be recovering following a mysterious and catastrophic 201… [+3146 chars]
A new analysis of seismic data from NASA's Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises. The first surprise: the top 300 meters of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian… [+5118 chars]
When seen with the naked eye, isopods look like a grain of rice and can dwell on the seafloor, scavenging on the marine snow that all dead things in the ocean become. During the research, the team d… [+2293 chars]
