Science

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created the smallest magnifying glass in the world that focuses light by a billion times to the scale of a single atom. The team used highly conductive gold nanoparticles to make the world’s tiniest optical cavity, so small that only a single molecule can fit within it. The cavity – called a ‘pico-cavity’ …

The night sky will be bright as the brightest and closest moon, called the “Supermoon,” takes to the sky on Monday night. The Supermoon on November 14 will be the closest a full moon has been to Earth since January 26, 1948. “As long as humans have been alive, they’ve had the moon, and now we have this modern understanding …

Massive reports of dying coral reefs have been lately scattering. Global warming is the main cause of these unwanted deaths. Researchers now explain how these deaths of coral reefs affect humans. If carbon dioxide emissions continue to fuel the planet’s rising temperature, the widespread loss of coral reefs by 2050 could have devastating consequences for tens of millions of people, …

Invasive aquatic mussels have been confirmed in Montana waters for the first time, prompting Alberta to send its mussel-sniffing dogs to the area and raising the alert level in the province. FWP, along with other state and federal agencies and the Montana Invasive Species Advisory Council (MISAC), are now working to determine whether adult mussels are present in Tiber Reservoir …

University of Lisbon researchers warn that the universe could die and self-destruct because of dark energy. The basis of their theory is that 68 percent of a hypothetical form of energy – dark energy – is directly opposed to the force of gravity. “What they have in common is that our galaxy, and all galaxies, would be ripped apart,” one …

Researchers warn that England’s classic and historic White Cliffs of Dover would likely vanish if left unprotected. It has been eroding 10 times quicker in the last 150 years because of climate change and poor management of beaches. Scientists have attributed the acceleration to the loss of beach beneath the cliffs, which historically provided a buffer to the sea. Sea …

Researchers have discovered that electrons cooled close to absolute zero slow down so much that they can be studied individually – allowing us to see the world in a whole new level of detail. What would happen if an electric current no longer flowed, but trickled instead? This was the question investigated by researchers working with Christian Ast at the …

A giant dish telescope in Australia has been aimed at the sun’s galactic next-door neighbour as part of a major new search for intelligent aliens. The goal of the program is scanning the heavens including the closest million stars to the Earth’s sun as well as 100 closest galaxies to the Milky Way in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The …

Researchers from the University of Cambridge are averring that they’ve unearthed the world’s first known fossilised dinosaur brain. Dating back to roughly 133-million-years ago, the scientists have confirmed that the fossilised brain belonged to a herbivorous dinosaur that fell into a swampy tidal pool in southern England.. The brainy finding looked like an unassuming brown pebble when a fossil hunter …

Without the emissions cuts laid out in the Paris agreement, global temperatures could reach 2 C as early as 2040 and cause the fastest acceleration in sea level rise in human history, according to a new study. Some climate models currently predict that by 2040, global temperatures could be 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrialization temperatures. By …

NASA’ Cassini time-lapse video shows clouds in motion over Titan’s northern region. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft caught clouds of methane moving across the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. In the time-lapse video, you can see clouds coming in and out of the movie sequence that was composed of photos taken every 20 minutes for 11 hours.