A university professor who spent 100 days living underwater at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers resurfaced Friday and raised his face to the sun for the first time since March 1. Dr. Joseph Dituri set a new record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization during his stay at Jules’ Undersea Lodge, …
Archaeologists have mapped out the lost city of Rungholt for the first time. Legend has it that the once thriving city, which now sits off the coast of northern Germany, was swallowed by the North Sea in a single night following a heavy storm as punishment for its inhabitants’ sins. According to folklore, these sins …
Scientists have finally glimpsed chemistry at its smallest level after capturing the first-ever X-ray of a single atom. Atoms are the tiniest particles in our universe, and they’re the basic foundation of everything that normal matter is built upon. As such, understanding them better will help us understand the larger parts of the universe. Scientists …
Unlike dogs, cats have a bit of a salty reputation for being cold and uncaring when it comes to connecting with their human companions. While for centuries, we’ve decided that canines are just friendlier than felines, that may not actually be the case. According to Science Alert, it’s possible that we’ve been communicating with felines …
New Zealand alt-pop artist Benee has combined her favourite comfort food with expertise from neuroscientists to design a song, Bagels, that reduced anxiety more effectively than the track previously known as the most relaxing song in the world. Scientists from Auckland University of Technology played Bagels to 30 young people hooked up to EEG brain …
What if an alien transmission was to reach Earth? Would we be able to decode it and somehow communicate with other species? Many believe we could find ways to communicate with symbols or other icons. Now, a group of scientists will test our ability to decode such communications when an “alien” transmission from Mars reaches …
In a matter of weeks, two papers by two independent groups have been published defining AT2021lwx, also known as ZTF20abrbeie. Probably more famous for its nickname “Scary Barbie”, it’s the largest cosmic explosion ever detected. A study published last week suggested it was a star being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole, a phenomenon …
Scientists have paid homage to an eye-conic villain from the Lord of the Rings in the name of a group of butterflies. While there are currently only two members of the genus Saurona, many more as-yet-undescribed species are thought to exist. One of fiction’s greatest villains is making their mark on the real world. The …
Supermassive black holes are impossible for humans to truly get their head around, since even the heaviest object we can really understand is many orders of magnitude lighter than even the smallest of black holes in space. To help us better visualize the differences in weights and the size of a black hole’s “shadow”, NASA …
As nightmares go, being trapped in a small box deep underwater is probably high on many people’s lists. But one US professor is doing this on purpose. Joe Dituri, a former US navy diver and expert in biomedical engineering has been living in a 55 square meter (592 square feet) space 30 feet below the …
