PASADENA, Kalifornia (PNN) - January 20, 2016 - Researchers are now pretty certain there's a ninth planet in the solar system.
Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, two CalTech scientists, say the new planet is about 10 times the mass of Earth and has an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Science magazine reports that the mysterious “Planet X” moves in distant orbit beyond Neptune.
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MONTREAL, Ontario, Canada (PNN) - January 27, 2016 - The engineer behind the Skreemr jet has unveiled another radical, much faster design for future air travel.
Charles Bombardier’s latest concept jet is capable of reaching Mach 24 - more than twice the speed of the Skreemr and 12 times faster than Concorde.
LONDON, England (PNN) - January 14, 2016 - The first genetically modified human embryos could be created in Britain within weeks according to the scientists who are about to learn whether their research proposal has been approved by the fertility watchdog.
Although it will be illegal to allow the embryos to live beyond 14 days, and be implanted into the womb, the researchers accepted that the research could one day lead to the birth of the first GM babies should the existing ban be lifted for medical reasons.
TOKYO, Japan (PNN) - January 6, 2016 - A mind-reading device that can decipher words from brainwaves without them being spoken has been developed by Japanese scientists, raising the prospect of telepathic communication.
Researchers have found the electrical activity in the brain is the same when words are spoken and when they are left unsaid.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (PNN) - December 26, 2015 - According to reports from two separate teams of researchers from Sweden and Mexico, two distant objects have been found lurking the outer edges of our solar system.
One of the objects, scientists say, could be a “super-Earth”, a mega-planet with an orbit six times greater than that of Pluto.
LONDON, England (PNN) - December 19, 2015 - Future conflicts will be fought in space as rival nations compete to plunge each other into a “technological Dark Ages” by destroying communications satellites, leading defense experts and academics have predicted.
WASHINGTON (PNN) - December 17, 2015 - Each day humanity inches closer to the vision of the future presented by “The Jetsons”. Okay, maybe not exactly that cartoon future, but something resembling it. Smart watches, robotic assistance, and 3-D printed food are just some of the real world advances for which the cartoon has analogues.
Strides have also been made in the realm of flying cars.
GÖTTINGEN, Germany (PNN) - October 19, 2015 - Scientists have seen huge, extra-powerful particles shooting out of the sun, in what they have described as a brand new solar phenomenon.
Researchers have for the first time ever spotted what they describe as “large-scale” waves being thrown out of the sun, together with energetic particles that seem to be thrown out by the waves. The scientists have long known that such particle emissions were happening - but couldn’t explain how they were making their way into space.
Futurist Ray Kurzweil speaks at Singularity University about humans becoming more godlike when they are biologically connected to the Cloud. He envisions humans being hooked into the Internet on a permanent basis. Is this truly a desirable future?
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