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Climate change and population growth direct our civilization to migrate to other planets, warn NASA scientists. The human population will need to colonize three planets to survive, said Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist from the Langley Research Center of NASA. "The whole ecosystem is crashing. Essentially, we are too many out…
Are you afraid of public speaking? Want to make a good first impression? It's not easy to find a way to overcome social anxiety and awkwardness. The good news is that thanks to the new psychological research, anyone can reduce their fears and insecurities in a simple way. From time…
One of the most popular theories in science today argues that life arrived on Earth from outer space, i.e. from bacteria that were brought to our planet by a meteor. However, another point of view, which seems indeed to have potentially broader support, insists that it is very likely that…
Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Ashton Kutcher invested in artificial intelligence developer Vicarious FPC. The total sum of investments was $40 million. Vicarious The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, the co-owner of Tesla Motors and SpaceX Elon Musk, and a popular actor and venture investor Ashton Kutcher invested $40 million…
Astronomers have discovered traces of gravitational waves in the relict radiation, which gives new evidence for the inflationary model of the universe. As stated by leading scientists around the world, this long-awaited finding will soon be nominated for the Nobel Prize. The announcement of the discovery of new evidence supporting…
In the future, if someone leaves just one hair at the crime scene, the CSI might be able to get the whole picture of the offender based on nothing but their genetic material. A promising US - Belgian technology, which may be added to the "arsenal" of forensic investigators in…
Scientists from the University of Western Australia led by Mehmet Alpaslan discovered that galaxies, which can be occasionally found in the huge empty regions of the universe that lie between the main galaxy clusters, are not scattered in this "desert" chaotically, but rather are aligned into relatively short strings. According…
On Monday, renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking appeared in one of the British TV shows and made a number of very interesting predictions about the future of humanity. Among others, he talked about the possibility that we might live on the moon and colonize other planets already in this century. The…