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The Incan capital at Cusco was built to look like a dark puma-shaped constellation, according to an Italian scientist. The research by Professor Giulio Magli from the maths department at Milan's technical university was published recently on the physics website arXiv, which is owned and operated by the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The Incan capital of Cusco was founded around the 12th century in what is now Peru and is about 110 kilometres south of the fortress city at Machu Picchu.
[View as single article...] [Follow article link...]BRITISH scientists say there is convincing evidence that a significant proportion of the population possess psychic powers.
[View as single article...] [Follow article link...]BEIJING (AP) -- The SARS outbreak won't delay China's first manned space launch, a matter of great national pride for the communist nation, state media said Saturday. Launching the Shenzhou V spacecraft will make China the third country after Russia and the United States to send a human into space.
[View as single article...] [Follow article link...]![]() A research group lead by scientists at the University of Warwick has discovered the trigger that pulls together X chromosomes in female cells at a crucial stage of embryo development. Their discovery could also provide new insights into how other similar chromosomes spontaneously recognize each other and are bound together at key parts of analogous cell processes. This is an important mechanism as the binding togetgher of too many of too few of a particular chromosome can cause a number of medical conditions such as Down's Syndrome or Turner's Syndrome. |
COWS, sheep and goats may seem like innocent victims of humanity's appetite for meat, but when it comes to climate change they have a dark secret. Forget cars, planes or even power stations, some of the world's worst greenhouse gas emitters wander idly across rolling pastures chewing the cud, oblivious to the fact that their continuous belching (and to a lesser degree, farting) is warming the planet. | ![]() |
![]() Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun. |
![]() Supermassive black holes are thought to lurk at the heart of essentially all galaxies bigger than our own. Their powerful gravity should be luring in galactic matter, feeding the black holes' voracious appetites. |
Physicists working at the CERN nuclear research lab on the border of Switzerland and France have generated the coldest particles of antimatter ever recorded. | ![]() |
Physicists working at the CERN nuclear research lab on the border of Switzerland and France have generated the coldest particles of antimatter ever recorded. | ![]() |
Another 26 cave paintings have been discovered in the Fingal Cave at Naeroey in Troendelag. When the cave was discovered in 1961, 21 paintings were registered. The 47 paintings depict both people and animals. -The cave paintings may be more than 3000 years old, archaeologist Melanie Wrigglesworth at the Science Museum says to NRK. She believes the find may give us more knowledge of how human beings in the late Stone Age and in Older Bronze Age percieved the world around them. The cave is both dark, wet and cold, and she believes that no one lived there, but that it was possibly used for some sort of religious practice, and that the paintings of animals and people were made in this connection.
[View as single article...] [Follow article link...]When hackers want to break into a computer system, they often attempt to reverse engineer the operating software to better understand how it works (and, of course, its vulnerabilities). While researchers have for years taken a similar approach to better understanding parts of our gray matter, neuroscientists now say that within a decade it will be possible to create a digital model that replicates all functions of the human brain. | ![]() |
The standard model of physics got it right when it predicted where the mass of ordinary matter comes from, according to a massive new computational effort. Particle physics explains that the bulk of atoms is made up of protons and neutrons, which are themselves composed of smaller particles known as quarks, which in turn are bound by gluons. The odd thing is this: the mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks [accounts for] only five percent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 percent? | ![]() |
When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species 150 years ago, he deliberately avoided the subject of the origin of life. This, coupled with the mention of the 'Creator' in the last paragraph of the book, led us to believe he was not willing to commit on the matter. An international team, led by Juli Peretó of the Cavanilles Institute in Valencia, now refutes that idea and shows that the British naturalist did explain in other documents how our first ancestors could have come into being. | ![]() |
Britain's honeybees are facing another serious threat to their survival. Hives across the country are being routinely inspected for the small hive beetle that has devastated colonies in North America and Australia.
[View as single article...] [Follow article link...]No matter how quiet we try to be now it's too late to prevent alien invaders. So says Alexander Zaitsev of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics in Moscow, Russia, who points the finger at astronomers. | ![]() |
For all their sophistication, computers still can't compete with nature's gift—a brain that sorts objects quickly and accurately enough so that people and primates can interpret what they see as it happens. Despite decades of development, computer vision systems still get bogged down by the massive amounts of data necessary just to identify the most basic images. Throw that same image into a different setting or change the lighting and artificial intelligence is even less of a match for good old gray matter. | ![]() |
One of the most identifiable nebulae in the sky, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, is part of a large, dark, molecular cloud. Also known as Barnard 33, the unusual shape was first discovered on a photographic plate in the late 1800s.
[View as single article...] [Follow article link...]The formation of strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn's rings have baffled scientists. New findings suggest they're born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings themselves, an insight that could shed light on how Earth and other planets coalesced from the disk of matter that once surrounded our newborn sun. | ![]() |
"Preliminary evaluation certainly identified at least two human burials, also evidence of prehistoric fire pits, and some prehistoric stone artifacts," says Mohow. "It seems likely they're prehistoric Native Americans 2,000-years-old or older. We have a site here that offers greater information on pre-history than the average site. As a matter of fact, significantly greater information than the average site."
[View as single article...] [Follow article link...]![]() Stephen Hawking arrived for his DISCOVER photo shoot bearing a familiar look: corduroy jacket, dark blue shirt, and a wisp of a sly smile. Even though he is mostly paralyzed due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), he has no trouble making himself understood. In part he relies on an infrared switch attached to his wheelchair, which enables him to write and to talk through a voice synthesizer. But even with his restricted body motions, Hawking’s thoughts come across clearly. Every arch of his eyebrows and roll of the eyes carries as much meaning as another person’s torrent of words. |
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