NASA finalizes the details of the launch of the probe "Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer" (LADEE) that will orbit the moon and will take samples of the dust and gas present in its atmosphere. The orbiter seeks to obtain detailed information on the characteristics and origin of the lunar dust, an unknown that has not been addressed since the Apollo missions.
Learn all the details of the megalodon, the largest shark that has ever existed in history and of which underwater fossil remains have just been found in the Canary Islands. These animals could measure 20 meters and weigh 100 tons, a true killer giant.
Scientists from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography, the IEO, have found megalodon (Otodus megaselachus) remains at a depth of 1,000 meters in the Canary Islands. This type of shark is the largest that has existed so far, it populated this water during the Miocene and could reach 20 meters and weigh 100 tons.
An international team led by Brazilian astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope to identify and study the oldest known solar twin. Located 250 light years from Earth, the star HIP 102152 looks more like the Sun than any other solar "brother", with the exception of being almost four billion years older. This primitive but practically identical twin gives us an unprecedented opportunity to appreciate what the Sun will look like when it ages. Also, the new observations provide, for the first time, an important and clear link between the age of a star and its lithium content.
Facebook has just announced its intention to incorporate the profile photos of its billions of members into its facial recognition database. This face recognition technology is already used in the Tag Suggest tool to speed up the process of tagging friends and acquaintances from the photos we post on the social network.
Two scientists from the University of Washington (USA) have approached telepathic communication by achieving the involuntary movement of the hand of one of them when receiving an order executed by the brain of the other. This advance gives rise to a future technology of bilateral brain connection that allows us to communicate without saying a word.
Embryonic stem cell culture has again given birth to another great scientific breakthrough: the creation of the first laboratory brain. Just 4 millimeters in diameter but fully functional, the mini-brains have been created by the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna (Austria) and lay the foundations for the development of new, less invasive and more ethical brain exploration techniques.
Are we all Martians? This is what seems to be deduced from a new discovery made by Steven Benner, from the Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology (USA). At a conference in Florence, Italy today, the Annual Conference of the European Geochemistry Association, Benner will tell the assembled geochemists that an oxidized mineral form of the chemical element molybdenum, which was almost certainly crucial to the origin of life, it may have been available only on the surface of Mars and not on Earth.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
