Category: Science

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 Spacecraft Successfully Lands On Asteroid
February 22, 2019 No Responses

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 Spacecraft Successfully Lands On Asteroid

The Japanese spacecraft was due to fire a pellet into the surface of an asteroid to capture dust and return the samples to Earth in 2020 Japan has sent a spacecraft to collect samples of rock from the surface of...
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Machine Learning May Not Be As Flawless As Originally Thought
February 19, 2019 No Responses

Machine Learning May Not Be As Flawless As Originally Thought

Machine learning techniques used to analyze data might be producing misleading results Nowadays, a lot of scientific research across many subject areas involves using machine learning software to analyze already collected data. From biomedical research to astr...
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We Now Know When The Milky Way Will Collide With The Neighboring Galaxy
February 12, 2019 No Responses

We Now Know When The Milky Way Will Collide With The Neighboring Galaxy

The Gaia spacecraft has new predictions regarding the future collision with the nearest Andromeda galaxy Our galaxy was initially predicted to collide with its neighboring Andromeda galaxy 3.9 billion years from now according to astronomers that used the Hubbl...
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UK Power Plant Starts Carbon Dioxide Capture Project
February 11, 2019 No Responses

UK Power Plant Starts Carbon Dioxide Capture Project

The Drax Power Station aims to capture one tonne of CO2 per day with the first BECCS pilot project in the world Even though it was initially announced to start in the middle of 2020, the first bio energy carbon...
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Robots aren’t taking over yet. The Tokyo hotel, Henn-na, fires its robot staff.
January 31, 2019 No Responses

Robots aren’t taking over yet. The Tokyo hotel, Henn-na, fires its robot staff.

There’s no doubt that it’s really hard to find good staff nowadays. So Japan’s H.I.S hospitality group, who own Henn-na in the heart of Tokyo’s upmarket shopping district, have taken a revolutionary step and installed very lifelike androids to ...
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We may finally know a cause for Alzheimer’s and you might want to talk to your dentist
January 28, 2019 No Responses

We may finally know a cause for Alzheimer’s and you might want to talk to your dentist

Alzheimer’s is one of the biggest mysteries in medicine. As populations have aged, dementia has skyrocketed to become the fifth biggest cause of death worldwide. Alzheimer’s constitutes some 70 per cent of these cases and yet, we don’t know what...
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Telescopes capture the moment of a meteor impact during lunar eclipse
January 25, 2019 No Responses

Telescopes capture the moment of a meteor impact during lunar eclipse

Astronomers managed to capture the moment of an impact during this week’s eclipsed moon. A comet stroke the Moon during the eclipse Spanish astrophysicist Jose Maria Madiedo of the University of Huelva said on Wednesday, 23rd of January 2019, that...
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