Published on Aug 12, 2018
When gold hunters in Russia collected the yellowish stone in 2016, they thought it might contain a precious metal. It didn't - but what it did contain was far more rare and valuable. |SOURCE| The rock had come from space, and it contained a new, never-before-seen mineral. It has yet to be officially documented, but scientists have named it [...] Read more
Published on Aug 7, 2018
It’s massive, it’s magnetic, and it even produces its own light show. |SOURCE| A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from the Sun. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical Journal, this strange, nomadic world has an incredibly powerful magnetic field that is some 4 million times [...] Read more
Published on Aug 7, 2018
Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people buried at Stonehenge or how they came to be there. Now, a new University of Oxford research collaboration, published in Nature Scientific Reports, suggests that a number of the people that were buried at the Wessex site had moved with and likely transported the [...] Read more
Published on Aug 3, 2018
An artificial-intelligence approach created at Carolina could help bring new drugs to patients quicker. |SOURCE| An artificial-intelligence approach created at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy can teach itself to design new drug molecules from scratch and has the potential to dramatically accelerate the [...] Read more