Kip Thorne (Utah 1940) already advised Carl Sagan when he wrote his famous novel Contact. Now he has scientifically supervised the latest science fiction movie about space travel: Interstellar. We chatted with him about galaxy travel, the existence of God, time travel, wormholes, and the future of our planet.
A geological formation deposited from Madagascar has been the site of the discovery of the fossil skull of the largest mammal of its time. The analyzes have revealed that this animal would have lived between 66 and 70 million years ago, so it would have coexisted during the era of the dinosaurs in the southern hemisphere. This is explained by experts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) to the journal Nature.
One of the disadvantages of non-alcoholic beers is that their aroma and flavor are lost and it is not easy to recover these aromatic components. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Valladolid (Spain) has achieved this thanks to a pervaporation process. The study has been published in the Journal of Food Engineering.
Astronomers have been puzzled for years by the appearance of a strange object in the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Now, a team of scientists from the University of California in Los Angeles (USA) seems to have solved the mystery of the object baptized as "G2": it is a pair of binary stars that would have been orbiting a huge black hole in our galaxy, eventually merging into an extremely large star shrouded in gas and dust. The research has been published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
A team of Chinese and Spanish researchers has published a study in which they reveal the discovery of a few human fossil remains found in the Xujiayao site (China) and that, according to the scientists themselves, are unclassifiable, since they do not belong to any species known human.
Researchers at the San Francisco Institute of Blood Systems have succeeded in reviving a virus from the remains found in the feces of a caribou. The peculiarity is that the herbivore made its deposition in the Selwyn Mountains… 700 years ago.
Hundreds of years before the Dutch sailor Jakob Roggeveen became the first European to arrive on Easter Island, in 1722, its inhabitants already traveled thousands of kilometers across the Pacific.
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.
