The waste collected by spacecraft, including the astronauts' own excrement, will have an unusual, innovative and ecological use: to be converted into fuel for spacecraft that travel from the Moon back to Earth. The new system has been developed by the Agricultural and Biological Engineering unit of the University of Florida (USA).
How does artificial intelligence compare to human? Currently - and for 65 years - the method used by scientists to evaluate and define whether artificial intelligence is capable of being compared with that of humans is the Turing test (in honor of the scientist Alan Turing). Now, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), Mark Riedl, has put on the table a new way to carry out this evaluation.
The confirmation of the existence of the famous Higgs boson has caused a special interest in all particle physics. Now, CERN has just announced the opening of an Open Data Portal (a data portal) where all the real collision data produced at the LHC are made public and freely available.
We may be more alone in the universe than we thought. Of the nearly 100 billion galaxies that exist in the observable universe, only 1 in 10 can support life as we know it on Earth. This is the conclusion of a recent study published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
In one of the deepest underwater hydrothermal springs in the world in the Caribbean, west of Cuba at about 2,300 meters depth, a large number of small shrimp (Rimicaris hybisae) appear piled on top of each other, creating authentic layers in the chimneys of rock that emanate hot water. This mysterious ecosystem could house the keys to the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Despite the great diversity of shapes and sizes that exist in nature, a series of general laws common to all of them persist, including humans. These laws are determined by just a few genes called "Hox" in multicellular organisms. Now, a team of scientists from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) has succeeded in discovering that the development of the fingers and genitals is regulated by exactly the same DNA fragment and that the other is derived from one of these structures.
Can you imagine that some 3D automated machines built the future home of astronauts on the Moon? Well, this is precisely what a project in which the European Space Agency is working on is aiming. We explain how.
The LHCb experiment of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research located in Switzerland, has discovered two new particles of the baryonic family, that is, those that are made up of quarks. They are Xi_b'- and Xi_b * - and, although they had already been described, they had not been seen until now. The finding has been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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.
