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 - March 8, 2017
 
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab Aboard the ISS Will Reshape Our Understanding of Matter and Gravity

NASA’s Cold Atom Lab Aboard the ISS Will Reshape Our Understanding of Matter and Gravity

Turns out you don’t need to hack NASA or work for them in order to use their technology.

One of the biggest questions that keep physicists up at night is why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe.

NASA is working to get a spacecraft to an asteroid before one strikes Earth.

Online learning could provide low cost, tailor-made educational resources to any student with internet access.

Dozens of prehistoric hominin footprints have been discovered in Norfolk and have been dated back to nearly one million years old. These are the oldest footprints ever discovered outside of Africa and could change the timeline of when the earliest human species migrated out of Africa and into Europe. The study comes from a collaboration of British research facilities and the results were published on PLOS ONE.

The oldest known dictionaries are cuneiform tablets from the Akkadian empire with biliingual wordlists in Sumerian and Akkadian discovered in Ebla in modern Syria.

In a quiet corner of the Republic of Georgia, hidden beneath medieval and Bronze Age ruins, the hominin fossil jackpot of Dmanisi is rewriting the story of human evolution.

A rare opportunity to study a comet using radar technology has yielded new measurements of this traveling space rock’s size, shape, geology and rotation rate.

“I was taken in the night time from my bed, taken up through where the wall meets the ceiling, taken out though the air and into a small craft, taken by 3 beings. And I was seated in the craft and then the craft started lifting. I could feel it that we were rising up.”