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That sensor array in the photo looks promising: http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-launch-tess-nasa-planet-hunting-telescope-2018-4?IR=T

I came across this, recently published in Nature : https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25029 " A density cusp of quiescent X-ray binaries in the central parsec of the Galaxy " by Charles J. Hailey, Kaya Mori, Franz E. Bauer, Michael E. Berkowitz, Jaesub Hong & Benjamin J. Hord Partial Quote of the Editorial Summary : "Many black holes in the Galactic Centre Simulations predict that the supermassive black holes near the centres of all large galaxies are surrounded by a concentration of stellar-mass black holes. Such black holes, however, have not previously been detected at the centre of our galaxy. Low-mass X-ray binary systems containi…

Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. Understanding this hidden half of ourselves - our microbiome - is rapidly transforming understanding of diseases from allergy to Parkinson's. The field is even asking questions of what it means to be "human" and is leading to new innovative treatments as a result. "They are essential to your health," says Prof Ruth Ley, the director of the department of microbiome science at the Max Planck Institute, "your body isn't just you". No matter how well you wash, nearly every nook and cranny of your body is covered in microscopic creatures. This includes bact…

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-background-space-reveal-hidden-black.html The background hum of space could reveal hidden black holes: April 12, 2018, Monash University: Deep space is not as silent as we have been led to believe. Every few minutes a pair of black holes smash into each other. These cataclysms release ripples in the fabric of spacetime known as gravitational waves. Now Monash University scientists have developed a way to listen in on these events. The gravitational waves from black hole mergers imprint a distinctive whooping sound in the data collected by gravitational-wave detectors. The new technique is expected to reveal the presence of thou…

The plot thickens (or not) https://phys.org/news/2018-04-dark-interactive.html

Researchers at the prestigious Lund University in Sweden have determined that a cryptochrome (CRY4) in eyes of birds enables their perception of Earth's magnetic field (magnetoreception). According the university's April 6th article: I imagine adaptations to the human eye may soon arrive. Enjoy!

https://theconversation.com/our-study-suggests-the-elusive-neutrino-could-make-up-a-significant-part-of-dark-matter-94051 Although, less than 5%

Massive magnetic anomaly located under the southern continent of Africa that is literally tugging on and weakening Earth's magnetic field which could very well be a precursor to the Earth's poles flipping one day soon ( soon being relative as this is a very slow process) it has been no secret that the Earth's magnetic field has been weakening for some time and has been happening in a pattern for the past 1,000 years. Scientists have recently pinpointed a certain area on the earth that is of concern located in a huge expanse of this field stretching from Chile to Zimbabwe across southern Africa known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (an area where the Earth's inner Van Allen …

E=mc2 becomes m=E/c2 Theoretically, it should be possible to turn light into matter. In practice, well - "easier said than done" is an understatement. Now, 84 years after the process was first theorized, some researchers reckon they're going to be able to do it - and they're about to start the experiment. It's called the Breit-Wheeler process, and it all has to do with E=mc2. The process was first described in 1934, by a pair of physicists named Gregory Breit and John A. Wheeler, in the journal Physical Review. In their paper, Breit and Wheeler proposed that, if you smashed two photons - particles of light - together, the collision would result in a…

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-methane-greenhouse-effect-earth-surface.html First direct observations of methane's increasing greenhouse effect at the Earth's surface: Scientists have directly measured the increasing greenhouse effect of methane at the Earth's surface for the first time. A research team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) tracked a rise in the warming effect of methane - one of the most important greenhouse gases for the Earth's atmosphere - over a 10-year period at a DOE field observation site in northern Oklahoma. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-04-methane-greenhouse-effect-earth…

An Interesting article and paper this morning...... https://phys.org/news/2018-04-gravitational-lensing-sun-like-star-massive.html Gravitational lensing by sun-like star in massive cluster reveals blue supergiant 9 billion light years away: Thanks to a rare cosmic alignment, astronomers have captured the most distant normal star ever observed, some 9 billion light years from Earth. While astronomers routinely study galaxies much farther away, they're visible only because they glow with the brightness of billions of stars. And a supernova, often brighter than the galaxy in which it sits, also can be visible across the entire universe. Beyond a distanc…

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https://www.techly.com.au/2018/03/21/nasa-just-found-way-fire-voyager-1s-thrusters-37-years-inactivity/ NASA just found a way to fire up Voyager 1’s thrusters after 37 years of inactivity After almost 40 years of inactivity, NASA engineers have managed to fire up the backup thrusters of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, the only human-made object in interstellar space. Voyager 1 was sent into space on September 5, 1977 to study the outer reaches of the Solar System as part of the Voyager program, and the sturdy craft still communicates with NASA to receive routine commands and return data. In fact, anyone can check out the most basic data it transmits in real …

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-reveals-startling-evidence-effects-climate.html New research led by U of T Mississauga geographer Igor Lehnherr provides startling evidence that remote areas in Canada's Arctic region—once thought to be beyond the reach of human impact—are responding rapidly to warming global temperatures. The study, published in Nature Communications, is the first to aggregate and analyze massive data sets on Lake Hazen, the world's largest lake by volume located north of the Arctic Circle. "Even in a place so far north, it's no longer cold enough to prevent the glaciers from shrinking," says Lehnherr, lead author on the study. "If this place …

Stephen Hawking has passed away at the age of 76 on Pi day, 3/14/2018. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76?CMP=fb_us

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-scientists-results-neutrino-mountain.html Scientists report first results from neutrino mountain experiment March 27, 2018 by Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology This week, an international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT, is reporting the first results from an underground experiment designed to answer one of physics' most fundamental questions: Why is our universe made mostly of matter? According to theory, the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter—the latter consisting of "antiparticles" that are essentially mirror images of matter, only bearing ch…

Which could be the proper materials used here ? ----> https://www.evolving-science.com/intelligent-machines/moisture-powered-microbots-korean-researchers-demonstrate-how-humidity-can-be-used-energy-00559 Play the video in it, it is interesting...

In Science Vosoughi et al published a paper showing that fake news on social media spread faster and wider than real news. This difference was not driven by bots, but by actual users. The spread of false news is also driven by network structure, but rather simply by the fact that most users seem to favour fake news. These findings, together with decreasing trust to mainstream media (Gallup: from 1998-2016, %great deal of trust: 59-> 51 democrats; 53->30 independents; 52->14 republicans), especially in the younger segment, highlight that it may become more difficult for folks to decide on what is fact or fiction.

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Yes according to François Hammer Et Al. it is very possible that Andromeda (as we know it) formed over a billion years after our own solar system did. A French and Chinese collaboration of scientists made deep observations between 2008 and 2014 and came up with a numerical model. They fed the model into some of the most powerful computers in France and got back a simulation that produces a galaxy that is a dead ringer for Andromeda. Their hypothesis is that between 7 and 10 billion years ago a much larger galaxy collided with a smaller one. The merger finally settled into the configuration we know (and love) between 1.8 and 3 billion years ago. https://www.obs…

BBC article about a series of articles published today in Science about finds in Kenya spanning a million years of human development and evolution, including links to historic climate and other conditions changes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43401157

Scientists probing the reason why cancer is far less common in individuals with Huntington's disease have revealed that the gene responsible for the fatal brain condition produces a molecule that is deadly to cancer cells.https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320908.php

Researchers have produced a "human scale" demonstration of a new phase of matter called quadrupole topological insulators that was recently predicted using theoretical physics. These are the first experimental findings to validate this theory. The researchers report their findings in the journal Nature. The team's work with QTIs was born out of the decade-old understanding of the properties of a class of materials called topological insulators. "TIs are electrical insulators on the inside and conductors along their boundaries, and may hold great potential for helping build low-power, robust computers and devices, all defined at the atomic scale," said mechanical…

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field in Light and Sound Explanation: Have you heard about the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field? Either way, you've likely not heard about it like this -- please run your pointer over the featured image and listen! The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field(HUDF) was created in 2003-2004 with the Hubble Space Telescope staring for a long time toward near-empty space so that distant, faint galaxies would become visible. One of the most famous images in astronomy, the HUDF is featured here in a vibrant way -- with sonified distances. Pointing to a galaxy will play a note that indicates its approximate redshift. Because redsh…

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-08/worlds-largest-solar-and-wind-hydrogen-plant-proposed-for-sa/9526706 'World's largest' solar and wind hydrogen plant proposed for regional SA: A new solar and wind hydrogen plant, which has been dubbed the largest in the world, has been proposed for Crystal Brook in South Australia's Mid North. The Labor Government has committed $25 million in grants and loans to renewable energy company, Neoen, to finalise plans and — pending development approvals — commence construction of a Hydrogen Superhub. The French company also owns and operates the Hornsdale Wind Farm in Jamestown, SA, the site of the Tesla lithium-…