China tests world’s first megawatt-class flying wind turbine – generates enough energy to power a home for two weeks
China’s megawatt-class aerial wind power generation system completes maiden flight – YouTube watch on A Chinese energy company has successfully tested an airship-like wind turbine that can generate energy above cities and inland areas. The S2000 Airborne Wind Energy System (AWES), developed by Beijing Linyi Yunchuan Energy Technology, is a large helium-filled airship equipped with […]
A 2,500-year-old ‘primitive prosthesis’ is discovered in the jaw of a mummified Scythian woman who survived complicated jaw surgery
A CT scan of the mummified remains of a young Siberian woman has revealed that she was fitted with a primitive prosthesis to reconstruct her jaw after suffering a severe head injury some 2,500 years ago. “This may be the first time we have found evidence of such a surgical procedure, as we have never […]
Physicists have recreated the first milliseconds after the Big Bang and found it to be shockingly bad.
Violent collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have revealed faint traces of wakes left by quarks tearing through trillions of degrees of nuclear material. This suggests that the primordial soup of the universe may have been more literally soupy than we think. New discoveries from the LHC’s Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration provide the […]
‘A complete surprise’: Homo erectus skull discovered in China is almost 1.8 million years old, the oldest evidence of ancient human relatives in East Asia
Three Homo erectus skulls previously unearthed in China are about 1.8 million years old, making them about 600,000 years older than originally thought, a new study has found. The new findings make the Unxian skull of Hubei the oldest evidence of early relatives of humans, known as hominins, in East Asia, according to a study […]
Cold, city-sized volcanic comet turns into a glowing ‘snail shell’ after massive explosion
A mysterious volcanic comet has transformed into a giant “fossil-like” spiral of light after its most violent explosion in years, new photos have revealed. This amazing sight is a reminder of how puzzling this particular planetary debris really is. This unusual comet, known as 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (29P), is a gigantic ball of ice about 60 kilometers […]
Laser breakthrough allows Microsoft to store 10,000 years of data on everyday glass
A groundbreaking improvement in Microsoft’s glass-based data storage technology allows ordinary glassware, such as those used in cookware and oven doors, to store terabytes of data, which is retained for 10,000 years. The technology, which has been under development since 2019 under the name Project Silica, has been steadily improving, and scientists today published a […]
The largest trees in the Peruvian Amazon store the most carbon and also face the biggest threats from humans
The largest trees in the Peruvian Amazon store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees, a new study has found. But these large trees are also the ones most likely to be cut down, which means more carbon is released into the atmosphere, thereby reducing the ability of these forests to act as carbon sinks, the […]
A supercomputer simulated the orbits of a million satellites between the Earth and the moon, but fewer than 10% survived.
New supercomputer simulations show that if a million satellites were placed at different points between the Earth and the moon, fewer than 10% would survive long enough to make it worth the effort to send them out in the first place. While this is not as dire as it initially seemed, research shows that it […]
Research group claims pre-eclampsia doomed Neanderthals, but experts say this is just a ‘thought experiment’
The mysterious disappearance of a Neanderthal cousin may have been linked to pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy and/or postpartum, doctors propose in a new study. But paleoanthropology experts aren’t convinced. In a paper published in the Journal of Reproductive Immunology on January 30, an international team of neonatologists and obstetricians and gynecologists argued that […]
Missing megaflood: How did the Mediterranean transform from a salt-filled bowl to a deep sea if it wasn’t a cataclysmic deluge?
On October 6, 1970, the deep-sea drilling vessel Glomar Challenger returned to port in Lisbon, Portugal, bearing a cargo that would revise history. During its 54-day voyage, the Challenger had punched 28 holes into the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The recovered cores pointed toward a startling conclusion: About 6 million years ago, the sea […]