In the ancient past, Europe was a very different place – at one time Britain was still operating in the European continent. Only after Millennia, when that connection was long broken, did modern humans begin to rediscover the ancient art of the Stone Age that once lived in the lands …
Read More »Meet the ‘King’ of the Toxic Underground Ecosystem, Nowhere on Earth
The southeastern Romanian movie Cave may not be at the top of your holiday list: no light descends from it, the air is thicker than toxic gases, and it was cut off from the outside world about 5.5 million years before its accidental discovery. In 1986. Life is not like …
Read More »The deadly ‘brain-eating’ amoeba is slowly but surely gaining ground in the U.S. Expansion of his steps in
The deadly “brain-eating amoeba” infection has historically occurred in South America. But in recent years cases have been appearing in a northerly direction, possibly due to climate change, a new study has found. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigated cases of brain-eating amoebae, known as …
Read More »Astronomers now find cosmic ‘super highways’ for faster travel through the solar system
Invisible structures created by the gravitational interaction in the solar system have formed the “space superhighway” network, astronomers have discovered. These channels enable rapid travel of objects through space, and can be used for our own space exploration purposes, as well as for the study of comets and asteroids. Using …
Read More »Physicists observe trippy ‘vortex rings’ in magnetic material for the first time
You can also find vortex rings wherever you have liquids. Now, scientists have found the art of the vortex interesting somewhere – inside a small column made of magnetic material, the gadolinium-cobalt intermetallic compound GDCO2. If you’ve seen smoke rings, or bubble rings under water, you’ve seen vortex rings: a …
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