A group of fishermen has discovered in Taiwan the jaw of a prehistoric man who lived in this area of the planet about 200,000 years ago, according to analyzes by anthropologists from the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Taiwan (China) and the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo (Japan). The newly discovered fossil remains do not resemble any of the known ancient humans. The work has been published in the journal Nature Communications.
A team of astronomers from the Leiden Observatory (Netherlands) and the University of Rochester (USA) has discovered a ring system close to a star similar to the Sun, named 'J1407'. The finding has been published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Can light particles be slowed? It was unthinkable in an open space. Up to now. A team of researchers from the University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt University (UK) have succeeded in slowing down photons (light particles) in free space for the first time in history. The study has been published in the journal Science Express.
Although the Philae probe has been asleep almost since it landed on the comet in November (but is expected to reactivate between May and June of this year), the Rosetta mission follows the comet and thus unraveling its mysteries. Now, thanks to its records, the European Space Agency (ESA) has published in the journal Science a total of seven articles in great detail of this primitive and distant object that it will continue to pursue until the end of this year or even more.
A new hypothesis in which an international team of scientists is working makes us evoke the plot of director Christopher Nolan's science fiction film, "Interstellar": what if our galaxy, the Milky Way, was a gigantic wormhole that allowed travel in space and time? The conclusions of this research have been published in the Annals of Physics journal.
Obviously, Twitter is a thermometer of the social climate, but, as an interesting study by the University of Pennsylvania shows, it is also a thermometer of the mental and physical health of its users.
Supernovae, that is, the explosions produced by the collapse of massive stars, only leave us a flash of light in the sky: small amounts of matter from these phenomena also reach 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.
