The particle accelerator that made it possible to discover the Higgs boson goes through the biggest renovation in its 10-year history. In June work began in Switzerland to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC , to its future version, called the High Luminosity LHC, or HiLumi LHC. The objective is to prolong the useful life of the accelerator… Read more »
Despite harsh criticism, the Filipino artist Gabriel Co Tuazon has become a viral phenomenon after atypically exterminating a cockroach.
Aerial images taken this week from a drone reveal the presence of a circular monument 200 meters in diameter buried under a field in Ireland. The circle is one kilometer from Newgrange , a funerary passage about 5,200 years old that is part of the most important archaeological site in Ireland, declared a World Heritage Site. It is believed… Read more »
Last month, Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg interviewed the founders of Lyrebird , an artificial intelligence company based in Montreal, Canada. Lyrebird can “create the most realistic artificial voices in the world,” according to the website. The company’s software recorded Vance’s voice and cloned it in a matter of minutes. The AI version was so realistic that Vance’s mother did not realize… Read more »
Alyssa Carson is a 17-year-old girl who has been selected by NASA to enter a training program to be part of a crew that explores Mars and other planets in the solar system. Her tender smile and the freshness of her face would make you think that she is a university student preparing for a… Read more »
Fear is only in the eye of the beholder. Unless, you’re in the ocean, it’s everywhere.
These are the true events that occurred to Professor KW, a chemistry professor who researched toxic chemical exposure. KW’s mercury toxicity was acute in nature, there wasn’t a constant source of exposure. But one accidental spilling of mercury led her down a cataclysmic path. She lost 15 lbs in just 2 months. She experienced nausea… Read more »
Do you have what it takes to replicate these experiments? https://youtu.be/2L0ZHxcoWhM
Before you view the video where these objects zoom out to reveal what they are, check to see how many you can identify correctly in these zoomed in images. Some are quite easy while others will surprise you. There are a few more objects in the video.
Researchers at the University of Manchester have trained a regal jumping spider to leap to a designated target on demand…
