Extreme elements push the boundaries of the periodic table0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- April 12, 2019
For superheavy atoms, chemistry gets weird
For superheavy atoms, chemistry gets weird
Israel’s dreams of a lunar landing will have to wait a little longer.
How the media keeps extraterrestrial infatuation top of mind
Fertility doctors in Greece and Spain say they have produced a baby from three people in order to overcome a woman’s infertility.
Scientists crunched data gathered by a global network of eight radio telescope observatories
Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of an extinct species of human in a cave in the Philippines.
In February, the popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience referred to an idea made famous by some books and TV shows: that an image of the Mayan King K’inich Janaab’ Pakal, carved onto the lid of his sarcophagus when he died in 683 C.E., shows him taking off in a spaceship. Host Rogan was skeptical of the notion, which has been used to argue that extraterrestrial visitors seeded sophisticated ancient societies like the Maya. He asked what mainstream archaeologists made of it.
Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy.
Metallic asteroids are the cooled cores of disrupted planetesimals. They originated early in the history of our Solar System when planets were beginning to form. University of California Santa Cruz planetary researchers Jacob Abrahams and Professor Francis Nimmo think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes spewing liquid iron could have erupted through a solid iron crust onto the surface of the metallic asteroid.
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