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New antimatter gravity experiments begin at CERN
We learn it at high school: Release two objects of different masses in the absence of friction forces and they fall down at the same rate in Earth's gravity. What we haven't learned, because it hasn't been directly measured in experiments, is whether antiSpinal-cord stimulation allows three paralyzed men to walk with assistance
“It’s an amazing feeling,” says David Mzee, whose left leg was paralyzed in 2010. Mzee has now regained some ability to walk thanks to a breakthrough in spinal-cord stimulation technology. “I can do a knee extension of my left leg... flex my hip and even
“It’s an amazing feeling,” says David Mzee, whose left leg was paralyzed in 2010. Mzee has now regained some ability to walk thanks to a breakthrough in spinal-cord stimulation technology. “I can do a knee extension of my left leg... flex my hip and even Improving climate models to account for plant behavior yields 'goodish' news
Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A new study from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that plant nutrient uptake iClever crows reveal 'window into the mind'
The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.
The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.The world's oldest shipwreck: 2,400 year old 'Odysseus' ship found at the bottom of the Black Sea
The 75ft shipwreck, found 1.3 miles under the surface of the Black Sea, could shed new light on the ancient Greek tale of Odysseus tying himself to a mast to avoid being tempted by sirens.
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The 75ft shipwreck, found 1.3 miles under the surface of the Black Sea, could shed new light on the ancient Greek tale of Odysseus tying himself to a mast to avoid being tempted by sirens. Yes, there's still hope for the planet, says climate guru Michael Mann
In the first issue of our new environmental newsletter, What on Earth?, we talk to climate scientist Michael Mann, explore the world of waste-free takeout and examine plant-based Lego blocks.The Hubble Space Telescope is broken
The Hubble Space Telescope has been sidelined by a serious pointing problem.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been sidelined by a serious pointing problem. Discovery of new object supports theory of 'super-Earth' at edge of solar system
Researchers have discovered an object far beyond the orbit of Pluto they believe strengthens the case for a large planet at the outer reaches of our solar system. 
The three academics had a very serious mission in all this: To expose what they call the 'identitarian madness coming out of the academic and activist left' A New Theory On Time Indicates Present And Future Exist SimultaneouslyScience | 180881 hits | 9:54 AM on Thursday | posted by Freakinoldguy
DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded a $1.3 million contract to an international team of researchers to study quantized inertia, a controversial theory that some physicists dismiss as pseudoscience. Canadian among trio awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
Donna Strickland, an associate professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, became the first woman in 55 years and the third ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing it with a scientist from the U.S. and another from France for their work in CERN Scientists Say The LHC Has Confirmed Two New Particles, And Possibly Discovered a Third
The Large Hadron Collider is at it again, showing us new wonders in the world of particle physics. Scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration have observed two new particles that have never been seen before Dust storms spotted on Saturn's moon Titan for 1st time
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is a world most similar to our own, with a considerable atmosphere, lakes and weather patterns. Now astronomers have discovered yet another way in which Titan is like our planet: dust storms.
There's a magnet in a secure room in Tokyo. The last time its designers switched it on, it blew open the heavy doors designed to keep it contained. Electrical implant helps paralysed people to walk again
Three paralysed patients are able to walk after an electrical patch is fitted to their spinal cords. 
Researchers have discovered a planet orbiting a star just 16 light-years away, the very star that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry said his fictional planet orbited.Two Japanese robots are now happily hopping on an asteroid
Each rover weighs about a kilogram and will bounce across the asteroid's surface.
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Each rover weighs about a kilogram and will bounce across the asteroid's surface. 
Shortly after Hurricane Harvey unleashed its flooding on Houston, we wrote about a remarkable observation shared by a scientist on Twitter: the weight of all that floodwater had measurably depressed the Earth’s crust. This week, a more detailed study of t Why a sudden spike in the temperature of the Great Lakes has scientists worried
The Great Lakes are getting much hotter according to a professor with the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Windsor. Aaron Fisk explains why temperatures are on the rise and what that means for the Great Lakes and the tClosure of NM solar observatory a mystery
Authorities are not offering any explanation for sudden move
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Authorities are not offering any explanation for sudden moveJocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3 million prize for discovering pulsars
The astronomer was famously excluded from the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The astronomer was famously excluded from the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics. 
An experiment at CERN has demonstrated a new way of accelerating electrons to high energies — one that could dramatically shrink the size of future particle accelerators and lower their costs. Katherine Johnson, Trailblazing NASA Mathematician, Celebrates 100 Trips Around the Sun
Katherine Johnson — a mathematician at NASAs Langley Research Center in Virginia who helped make human spaceflight possible — celebrated 100 trips around the sun this weekend. Scientists slowly cast light on celestial mystery known as Steve
A new study by University of Calgary scientists concludes glowing, purplish lights spotted in northern skies — and known as Steve — are definitely not aurora. The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists 
Bread, like wine, is pivotal in Judeo-Christian rituals. Both products exemplify the use of human ingenuity to re-create what nature provides, and the fermentation they both require must have seemed nothing less than magical to ancient minds.First biomarker evidence of DDT-autism link
A study of more than 1 million pregnancies in Finland reports that elevated levels of a metabolite of the banned insecticide DDT in the blood of pregnant women are linked to increased risk for autism in the offspring.
A study of more than 1 million pregnancies in Finland reports that elevated levels of a metabolite of the banned insecticide DDT in the blood of pregnant women are linked to increased risk for autism in the offspring. Scientists find way to make mineral which can remove CO2 from atmosphere
Scientists have found a rapid way of producing magnesite, a mineral which stores carbon dioxide. If this can be developed to an industrial scale, it opens the door to removing CO2 from the atmosphere for long-term storage, thus countering the global warmi Scientists Claim to Have Solved the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
British oceanographers from the University of Southampton believe the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has been busted. After an investigation lasting decades, they’ve concluded that ships are being sucked into the ocean by "rogue waves" over 30 metres in Humans can judge a person's strength from their aggressive roars
Men and women differ at estimating each other's strength from vocalizations, scientists find
Men and women differ at estimating each other's strength from vocalizations, scientists find LHC accelerates its first 'atoms'
Protons might be the Large Hadron Collider's bread and butter, but that doesn't mean it can't crave more exotic tastes from time to time. On Wednesday, 25 July, for the very first time, operators injected not just atomic nuclei but lead "atoms" containing Carbon 'leak' may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years, encouraging human civilization
The oceans are the planet's most important depository for atmospheric carbon dioxide on time scales of decades to millenia. But the process of locking away greenhouse gas is weakened by activity of the Southern Ocean, so an increase in its activity could The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature
n 2014, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, Canada, named Cohl Furey rented a car and drove six hours south to Pennsylvania State University, eager to talk to a physics professor there named Murat Günaydin. Furey had figured out how to buildA lake on Mars' New data suggests liquid water lies beneath planet's southern pole
For years, astronomers have been looking for liquid water on Mars. Now, a team of Italian scientists believe they've found it.
For years, astronomers have been looking for liquid water on Mars. Now, a team of Italian scientists believe they've found it. Dutch medical trial using Viagra stopped after 11 babies die
A Dutch trial with the drug best known under the brand name Viagra, has been immediately halted after 11 babies of mothers using the medication died, one of the participating hospitals said on Tuesday. No more zigzags: Scientists uncover mechanism that stabilizes fusion plasmas
Sawtooth swings—up-and-down ripples found in everything from stock prices on Wall Street to ocean waves—occur periodically in the temperature and density of the plasma that fuels fusion reactions in doughnut-shaped facilities called tokamaks.Science | 181499 hits | 12:25 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Diamonds are anything but rare in the thick layers of rock deep below us. We just can't reach them. Using Saskatchewan Flatness To Prove The Earth Is Round
"My project is to test if the world is round or flat. Science says that it's round but, you know, people are not sure about that these days. So I figured I'd do a simple experiment," he explained. 12 new moons discovered around Jupiter
Astronomers looking for the a proposed planet beyond Pluto instead found 12 new moons around Jupiter, with one they refer to as an 'oddball.' Expedition gives live look at underwater mountains off B.C.'s coast
The expedition's aim is to explore underwater mountains near Haida Gwaii and monitor the biodiversity of the unique ecosystems. First 3D colour X-ray of a human using CERN technology | CERN
What if, instead of a black and white X-ray picture, a doctor of a cancer patient had access to colour images identifying the tissues being scanned? This colour X-ray imaging technique could produce clearer and more accurate pictures and help doctors give Humans evolved in partially isolated populations scattered across Africa
A scientific consortium led by Dr. Eleanor Scerri, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, has found that human ancestors were scattered across Africa, anNew Higgs Boson Discovery Could Help Solve Cosmic Puzzle
Scientists can’t take pictures of the Higgs boson. But they can find proof of its existence by watching “E=mc2” play out in hundreds of millions of particle collisions per second and detecting how it decays into other particles they do know how to spot.
Scientists can’t take pictures of the Higgs boson. But they can find proof of its existence by watching “E=mc2” play out in hundreds of millions of particle collisions per second and detecting how it decays into other particles they do know how to spot. Neuroscientists uncover secret to intelligence in parrots
University of Alberta neuroscientists have identified the neural circuit that may underlie intelligence in birds, according to a new study. The discovery is an example of convergent evolution between the brains of birds and primates, with the potential to Astronomers report 1st image of baby planet bigger than Jupiter being formed
Astronomers say they've captured the first confirmed image of a planet forming in the dust swirling around a young star. Kamloops doctoral student shoots to fame with swimming-pool pee scienceScience | 181769 hits | 2:24 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
In study of 29 swimming pools and hot tubs in B.C. and Alberta, Lindsay Blackstock discovered equivalent of 75 litres of pee per large pool.Back to Canada News
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