New analysis by academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years, a trend that will have grave implications for how we treat our digital heritage in the future. The analysis predicts that, based on 2018 user levels, at least 1.4 billion members will die ...
Observers watching January’s total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash as a meteorite hit the lunar surface. Spanish astronomers now think the space rock collided with the Moon at 61,000 km/h, excavating a crater 10 to 15 meters across. Prof. Jose Maria Madiedo of the University of Huelva, and Dr. ...
When the landmass that is now the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia about 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, the global climate, and more. Now, a team of Princeton University scientists has identified one more effect: The oxygen in the world’s oceans increased, altering the conditions for ...
The idea of the heat island — that densely built-up urban areas are considerably hotter than the rural and semi-rural landscapes that surround them — has been extensively studied and is widely accepted by academics and the public. But a new study by a Concordia researcher takes a closer look at the phenomenon and what ...
It has only been within the past few centuries that Western scientists started proposing there might be water on Mars. In 1784, German astronomer William Herschel even put forward the idea that there might be inhabitants on the planet similar to us. Though the idea of Martian humanoids remains in the realm of science fiction, ...
How do you observe a process that takes more than 1 trillion times longer than the age of the universe? The XENON Collaboration research team did it with an instrument built to find the most elusive particle in the universe — dark matter. In a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers announced that they have observed the ...
Researchers at the University of Western Australia have found that although the Indian Ocean is the world’s biggest dumping ground for plastic waste, nobody seems to know where it goes. Professor Chari Pattiaratchi, from UWA’s Oceans Graduate School and the Oceans Institute, said compared to other ocean basins, little research had been done to measure ...
Ever since the idea of a wormhole was first introduced, scientists and the public alike have always wondered whether traveling through them would be possible. Since wormholes connect two points in space, they were theorized to be a speedy way to traverse galaxies. But Daniel Jafferis, a physicist from Harvard University says that even though ...
NASA has discovered that the Moon ejects water vapor into the atmosphere every time a meteoroid strikes its surface. The discovery, made by researchers from the space agency and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, is expected to help scientists understand the history of lunar water. Water on the Moon Even ...
Undetected vision problems can impact your child’s performance in and out of the classroom. Therefore, it’s essential to understand eye health so you can recognize the signs that your child may have a vision problem and possibly need glasses. Johns Hopkins ophthalmologist Megan Collins, M.D. said: “The visual system in a child is still developing ...
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