Stonehenge complex at unesco world heritage site near Salisbury in England. Summer holidays destination in the UK, Europe. Green countryside landscape with blue sky on a summer day in Great Britain.Getty In the heart of England’s Salisbury plain stand the ancient pillars of rock that comprise Stonehenge, one of the world’s best-known archaeological monuments. With
For years, the internet has hemmed and hawed over a mysterious yet universal truth: a grape, sliced nearly in half and placed in the microwave, will suddenly begin to spit plasma. The fiery sight had us mystified for years, garnering millions of views online and a variety of expert opinions, none of which were based
Thousands of years ago, an ancient hominin strode through a sand dune, leaving footprints behind. Most of these marks were lost to the ravages of the years, but one was preserved as the sand hardened to stone. That print, scientists have now determined, may have been made by a Neanderthal on the island of Gibraltar.
If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, next time you get the opportunity, go outside and look at the night sky. Most of that celestial plain is covered in a star cluster that’s been torn apart by galactic tidal forces, and is now flowing past us as a giant river of over 4,000 stars. Although
At first glance, the two rows of portraits at the top of this article just look like a bunch of average-looking people. The catch is, none of them exist. All of these faces are fakes, put together by artificial intelligence. To be more precise, these faces are created by a generative adversarial network (GAN) developed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The great white shark, one of the most fearsome predators in the world’s oceans in both fact and fiction, is a formidable creature — right down to its genes. A great white shark is seen in the waters near Guadalupe Island off the coast of Mexico in this 2012 handout photo obtained
According to the mental health charity MIND, approximately 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year, and in England alone, 1 in 6 people report experiencing a common mental health problem (such as anxiety and depression) in any given week. In England, around 1 in 8 men have
Multiyear investment begins with 18-month contract worth few million pounds. WASHINGTON — The U.K. Space Agency announced Feb. 18 it is providing 18 million pounds ($23.3 million) to satellite broadband startup OneWeb through the agency’s participation in the 22-nation European Space Agency. The U.K. is the first of six ESA member states plus Canada to
The Pinna-Brelstaff illusion is tremendous fun: concentric rings of shapes, with inverse shading. When you move your head closer to or farther from the illusion, the rings appear to rotate, expand, and contract (go ahead, we’ll wait while you try this with the picture above). We know the shading effect plays a role in tricking our brains
A panoramic view centered on the Azuero Peninsula of Panama. The southwestern Caribbean Sea and the cloud-covered Isthmus of Panama are to the left and the Gulf of Panama and the eastern Pacific Ocean with sun glint are on the right.Ron Garan/JSC/NASA The Isthmus of Panama, separating the Caribbean Sea from the Pacific Ocean, has
WASHINGTON — An appropriation bill signed into law Feb. 15 gives NASA $21.5 billion for fiscal year 2019, $1.6 billion above the administration’s original request. The bill, which combined several separate appropriations bills as well as a border security package, was approved by wide majorities in the House and Senate Feb. 14 in a bid
We finally have real evidence about what microdosing psychedelic drugs does to your brain. Long advocated by people who claim that a teensy daily dose of LSD helps them with their high-pressure jobs, microdosing has been shown to reduce depressive symptoms and stress while boosting focus and levels of neuroticism, according to research published in
Soft, squishy, ancient spiders are hard to investigate – they don’t fossilise as easily as bones or exoskeletons. So you can imagine how excited researchers were to find 10 brand new spider fossils in a relatively unexplored area called the Jinju Formation. The Jinju Formation is a geological area of South Korea from the Mesozoic era,
Unsplashunsplash I attended a TEDx event recently, where there were as many women as men, sharing not only the platform but also amongst the student community, bringing that unique energy with them. I was feeling extremely optimistic about the world. The thought that we would be ‘celebrating’ International Women’s Day soon, marking the progress that
A solicitation was issued by the office of Mike Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, inviting contractors to submit ideas for a “Time-Sensitive Target Mission Payloads Demonstration.” WASHINGTON — The Pentagon announced it will start a new research project to figure out how to use sensors in space to shorten the timeline for
It was a cold and hazy afternoon when Travis Kauffman set out on a scenic run through the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northern Colorado. The 31-year-old runner told reporters that he ran up a nature trail earlier this month near Fort Collins and made his way to the top to take in the
An ambitious new analysis of the world’s forests found that there’s space to plant 1.2 trillion new trees – a number that would absorb more carbon than human emissions. According to the new data, ETH Zurich researcher Thomas Crowther told The Independent, trees are “our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change.” Crowther
University of Pennsylvania psychologist Angela Duckworth defined grit as a “perseverance and passion for long-term goals.” There are several definitions of grit. For me, it is a growth mindset, a resilience that makes a person determined to bounce back from failures and setbacks. I talked about the growth mindset in my TEDx talk. Most of
TUKWILA, Wash. — As LeoStella inaugurated the factory that will be used to produce a series of Earth imaging satellites, the joint venture of Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight Industries continues to look for other customers. LeoStella formally opened the production facility where it will build small satellites during a Feb. 15 event here. The
What can you tell from the number of push-ups you can do? (Photo: Getty Images)Getty Can you do 40 push ups? No, not over the course of a month, but in a row? If not, can you do at least ten? The answers to these questions may help you determine your risk of heart problems over