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Hollywood actor Benedict Cumberbatch (born in 1976) is British. He is most famous for playing the Marvel comic character, Doctor Strange and the character Sherlock although he has a few other well-known movies under his belt too. In 2006, Benedict appeared in the movie Amazing Grace. The movie was about slavery in the British empire and the attempt [...]
Science is currently God’s most powerful friend. Since the Enlightenment, when rationalism was embraced and empiricism became the dominant belief system in pursuit of the ultimate truths about the cosmos, science and religion have been at odds. It appeared at one time that any scientific breakthrough would weaken the authority and give ammunition to atheists. [...]
A “Planet killer” asteroid that has been hiding in the sun’s glare has finally been observed, and the massive space rock could smash into Earth one day. The 0.9-mile-wide (1.5-kilometer-wide) “potentially hazardous” asteroid 2022 AP7 is one of several large space rocks discovered recently near the orbits of Earth and Venus. Currently, 2022 AP7 crosses Earth’s [...]
Earth’s interior is a far from quiet place. Deep below our surface activities, the planet rumbles with activity, from plate tectonics to convection currents that circulate through the hot magmatic fluids far underneath the crust. Understanding the origin of the magnetic field, why it constantly fluctuates, how it interacts with the solar wind, and, indeed, [...]
For the first time, scientists have managed to capture the dual natures of light – particle, and wave – in a single electron microscope image. Until now, scientists could only capture an image of light as a particle or a wave, never both at the same time. However, a team from the École Polytechnique Fédérale [...]
You don’t have to be a science expert to understand that black holes more often pull things in rather than spit them out. However, NASA has recently discovered something strange around the supermassive black hole Markarian 335. Two space telescopes – NASA’s Explorer missions Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, witnessed a black hole’s corona being [...]
It marks the first time a plant has been grown on the Moon. China made history by landing its Chang’e-4 spacecraft on the Moon’s far side. The mission was also the first to experiment with growing plants on the Moon, and it brought a mini-biosphere called the Lunar Micro Ecosystem to the lunar surface (LME). Except for the [...]
With bugs, algae, and other resource-efficient foods we could feed one million people on Mars within a century of arriving there. Scientists even invented a martian diet. In the science fiction novel and film The Martian, a stranded astronaut survives for more than 500 days on Mars by growing potatoes. A permanent human settlement on Mars [...]
For the first time, astronomers have discovered evidence for a giant planet orbiting a tiny, dead white dwarf star. And, surprisingly, the Neptune-sized planet is more than four times the diameter of the Earth-sized star it orbits. “This star has a planet that we can’t see directly,” study author Boris Gänsicke from the University of [...]
Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource utilization. And at the forefront of these efforts has been a laser-sharp focus on finding the best way to produce oxygen on the Moon. In October, the Australian Space Agency and NASA signed a deal to send an Australian-made [...]
