Science & Technology

Ready, SETI, go: Is there a race to contact E.T.?0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 26, 2020
If so, China may be in the lead.

By David Aragorn
A new artificial eye mimics and may outperform human eyes 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 21, 2020
The high-tech device boasts a field of view and reaction time similar to that of real eyes

By David Aragorn
NASA Scientists Might Have Found a Parallel Universe ‘Next to Ours’ After an Antarctica Experiment 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 21, 2020
One of the biggest debates is whether the theory of a parallel universe or multiverses is real with some people, including some experts, who believe it exists and the other group in disagreement.

By David Aragorn
Bizarre new species discovered… on Twitter 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 19, 2020
It all began as biologist and associate professor Ana Sofia Reboleira of the National Natural History Museum was scrolling though Twitter. There, she stumbled upon a photo of a North American millipede shared by her US colleague Derek Hennen of Virginia Tech. She spotted a few tiny dots that struck her well-trained eyes.

By David Aragorn
CERN Physicists Create Atoms of Pionic Helium 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 18, 2020
Physicists from the ASACUSA (Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons) Collaboration at CERN have successfully synthesized and studied theoretically predicted but never before verified atoms of pionic helium. Their results mark the first time such spectroscopic measurements have been made on an exotic atom containing a meson.

By David Aragorn
Cold War nuclear tests changed rainfall thousands of miles away, scientists reveal 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 15, 2020
Nuclear tests conducted during the Cold War changed rainfall thousands of miles away, according to new research.

By David Aragorn
Overlooked No More: June Almeida, Scientist Who Identified the First Coronavirus 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 9, 2020
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.

By David Aragorn
We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 9, 2020
Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality where everything is upside down

By David Aragorn
Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 8, 2020
Patients with severe deficiency are twice as likely to experience major complications

By David Aragorn
Mysterious inflammatory syndrome in children potentially linked to COVID-19 reported in Montreal 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 7, 2020
As Quebec prepares to reopen schools, doctors are poring over 15-20 cases of children with what seems to be the same illnesses reported in U.S. and Europe

By David Aragorn