Satellite data shows that the ozone hole in the atmosphere over Antarctica is slowly healing. The data comes from NASA´s Earth-orbiting Aura satellite. It indicates that a depletion rate of the protective ozone layer that was 20% lower in winter 2016 than it was in 2005. Scientists hope that the hole will be gone between …
Google has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) that created its own child. The system is more advanced than any made by humans. On one hand people are amazed by this achievement but on the other hand they are afraid about what else it could do. Additionally, it sparks an ethical debate about regulations and safety. …
Scientists make use of animal´s movement and behaviour to improve technology, birds inspired airplanes, for example. Now scientists try to copy the abilities of the wandering albatross to use them on drones. The bird is able to soar great distances with minimal effort. The albatross doesn´t flap its wings but just rides the wind. Scientists …
Einstein´s theory of happiness fetched $1.3 million at an auction in Jerusalem on Tuesday. It was a hand-written note with the musings of Albert Einstein on it that sheds some light on one of the great minds of all time. The bidding for the note began at $2,000 but quickly escalated and lasted 25 minutes. …
In the future shopping for groceries might be different from the way we know now. A Swedish start up, Wheelys, works together with China´s Hefei Unversity of Technology to overhaul the shopping experience. They predict that in future everyone, from big retailers to small communities, will employ their own mobile, automatic grocery. The technologies are …
Precise chemical surgery has been performed on embryos by a Chinese team at the Sun Yat-sen University to alter their DNA and remove diseases. They were able to alter a single error out of three billion features of our genetic code. They did this on lab-made embryos, which have not been implanted. This medical procedure …
Yesterday a total solar eclipse took place, the moon passed in front of the sun and cast a huge shadow. It was the first solar eclipse in America since 1918 to track from coast to coast. Within the path of totality the total solar eclipse could be seen, everyone in North America was able to …
The idea of a multiverse – a cosmos where a multiple number of universes exist beside our own – is no longer just confined to science fiction. By now it is a respected theory among scientists and many try to prove its existence. Now scientists might be a step closer. A graduate student from Durham …