Giant dynosaur egg found

Jose Antonio Nieves, a resident of Argentina, went for a walk to the farm… and found a historic discovery. His farm is located 25 km South from Buenos Aires, so it’s not the most remote and abandoned place.

Close to the river Jose found a huge black egg! He rushed home and told everyone that he found “dinosaur egg”.

At first it was difficult to determine how big is “the egg” because the finding was partially under the ground. When Jose finally released the “eggs” from land cover, it turned out that it was in truth incredible!

The discovery was so huge that could not belong to dinosaurs. It was the shell of Glyptodon – a family of armadillos that lived during the Ice age. More than 10 000 years ago all of South America was inhabited by these herbivores. The researchers say that this creature was the size of a “Volkswagen beetle”. The find is preserved in excellent condition.

This event occurred, which archaeologists call historic in 2015.

The shells Glyptodon differ on the same principle as the prints of human fingers. Armor protected Glyptodon from predators. This finding, not unusual for Brazil or Uruguay. Their tails were also armored.

The animals were so strong that it could penetrate the armor even of their relatives. The shell of Glyptodon consisted of approximately 1000 bone plates. They had strong legs, huge shoulders and fused it to the spine. Biologists say that between Glyptodont and modern turtle have nothing in common.

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Universe expanding faster than light        The universe is expanding considerably faster than it should beNasa has confirmed.

    The space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope shows that it is growing about 9 per cent faster than had been expected, based on the trajectory it started with shortly after the Big Bang, according to astronomers.

     While such a discrepancy had already been suggested, the new measurements reduce the chance this is a mistake to just one in 100,000. \Such a confirmation could require astronomers to find new physics theories to explain the universe‘s strange behavior.

This mismatch has been growing and has now reached a point that is really impossible to dismiss as a fluke. This is not what we expected,” says Adam Riess, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, Nobel laureate and the project’s leader.

     The speed of the universe’s expansion, known as the Hubble constant, is a central part of physics and our understanding of the universe. But it has repeatedly been observed to be inaccurate  –the more astronomers find out about it, the more wrong it appears – in ways that have forced scientists to wonder whether our assumptions about the universe are wrong.

      The new study confirms that speculation, and requires further work to explain exactly whether the universe is actually expanding, and, if so, in what way it is growing.

 

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Something man has never seen before

 

     NASA’s New Horizon’s space probe made history on New Year’s Day as it flew past Ultima Thule, a small, snowman-shaped object 4 billion miles away from Earth never before seen by man.

      Located in the Kuiper Belt, this small object is the most distant ever explored in history. It is located more than 300 million miles further from the Sun than Pluto. It is so far away, it takes a signal 20 months to get to Earth. 

      This is the second time that New Horizons explored a distant world. In 2015, it sent back the first-ever close-up images of Pluto.

     After the spacecraft explored Pluto in July 2015, scientists at NASA adjusted its course that set up its close encounter with Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day. This required extreme precision, in part due to its small size in comparison to Pluto.

      Never before has any spacecraft team tracked down such a small body at such high speed so far away in the abyss of space,” said Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

      Ultima Thule was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope just a year before the New Horizons reached Pluro. After the spacecraft explored, scientists at NASA adjusted its course to set it up for a close encounter with Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day.  

     “The new images revealed Ultima Thule as a 'contact binary,' consisting of two connected spheres,” NASA said

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FDA-approves marijuana-based drug

Epidiolex, the first cannabis-based medication approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, is now available by prescription in all 50 states. The oral solution is approved  to treat two types of epileptic syndromes.  In September, the US Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration classified Epidiolex as a Schedule V substance, clearing the final hurdle for it to be legally prescribed by doctors in the United States. (Marijuana and CBD remain Schedule I substances.) The FDA's approval of Epidiolex signals "validation of the science of cannabinoid medication."FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said, "The FDA will continue to support rigorous scientific research on the potential medical uses of marijuana-derived products."

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Neutrinos offer no proof of Dark Matter

The theoretical Big Bang — in which a tiny singularity is said to have inflated over 13.8 billion years to form the universe — should have resulted in a universe with 50% matter and 50% antimatter. When matter and antimatter meet up, they annihilate and render each other nonexistent. But that's not what we see today. Instead, our universe is mostly matter, and scientists are struggling to discover what happened to all the antimatter. The latest experiments do not support this idea. That's where neutrinos come in.
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MIT creates living tattoos

The latest biohybrid strangeness comes out of MIT, where engineers have invented what they're calling "living tattoos" that can respond to their environment just like living cells. Made of living cells that have been 3D printed on the skin as flexible three-dimensional interactive structures or devices that can sense various chemicals and do other things. (read more
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Discovery could change war forever

Scientists have just discovered a way to create a lightweight material that is bulletproof. Scientists combined two graphene layers and created a new material that is both soft and light, and also can instantly become as hard as diamond when a bullet or some other object strikes it. This material, known as diamene, is as thin as aluminum foil. It was developed at City University of New York’s Advanced Science Research Center. The findings were published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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A robot chef?
A lot more than that. See some of the fascinating new robots are working today. click here. and here


New species of bacteria found in  Rainforest Cafés
A new report published the first of October by researchers at Vanderbilt University revealed that 17 new species of bacteria are discovered every day during expeditions into the lush plastic foliage of the  Rainforest Cafés. “During our study, our researchers identified and classified more than 12,000 previously unknown microbes living in the Rainforest Café biome,” said lead author Nadia Lopez, adding that an astonishing number of unicellular microorganisms were thriving on the rims of Cheetah Rita glasses, in pools of water on the tables, and deep within the chocolate lava volcano cake. “It’s challenging for biologists to keep up with the rate at which new endotoxin-secreting species are discovered. And we’ve only worked our way through the first few items on the menu.” The researchers went on to speculate that the gift shop would likely contain undiscovered bacteria all its own.  There are over 25 Rainforest Cafes throughout the world


New App can tell if your are psychic

 
Paranormal researchers are building smartphone apps designed to operated in the world of spirit. They already have apps to test if your home is haunted. A new app released by the Institute for Noetic Sciences (IONS)claims to be able to test whether or not you have psychic powers. The app, called PsiQ, has three separate tasks which test for psychokinesis, precognition and super precognition. After taking the tests and getting the results, users can then use the app to compare their scores with other users.     PsiQ is  free for downloadfree for download on iTune

Casini space probe ends its 20-year missionn

On Sept. 15, 2017, after twenty years in space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its remarkable journey of exploration. After completing many moon-flybys and observing seasonal changes on Saturn and Titan, the craft expended almost every bit of the rocket propellant it carried. At that point, operators  deliberately plunged Cassini into the planet to ensure Saturn's moons were not polluted by the pieces of the craft,  and would remain pristine for future explorations. In the photo, Earth is 750 million miles away.On Sept. 15, 2017, after twenty years in space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its remarkable journey of exploration. After completing many moon-flybys and observing seasonal changes on Saturn and Titan, the craft expended almost every bit of the rocket propellant it carried. At that point, operators  deliberately plunged Cassini into the planet to ensure Saturn's moons were not polluted by the pieces of the craft,  and would remain pristine for future explorations. In the photo, Earth is 750 million miles away. See more exciting photos

300,000-year-old human skull found in Morocco
This makes our race much older than the Neanderthals. Even older than most other hominid races thought to preceed us.. see story


Genetic testing goes to the dogs

Orivet Genetics, a leading international personalized medicine and genetics testing organization, has expanded its testing services and customized life plans for pets to the U.S.  Orivet will now offer genetic DNA testing services for dogs and cats, allowing pet owners to learn more about their pet's unique personality traits, health needs and inherent risks. This can include full pure-breed profiles, breed identification DNA testing, DNA disease screening, DNA profiling and parentage confirmation, and more.  Pet owners interested in testing their pets can request a DNA collection kit for free at www.orivet.com

 

A sense of touch for robots

Engineering researchers at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineeringhave developed a revolutionary process for 3D printing stretchable electronic fabric we developed which has many practical uses, especially for sensory devices that could give robots the ability to feel their environment. The discovery is also a major step forward in printing electronics on real human skin.




The flying car is here
A small Silicon Valley company called Kitty Hawk piloted a flying car above a scenic lake north of San Francisco. Not really a car, it is more like a weird motorcycle - an open-seated, 220-pound contraption with room for one person, powered by eight battery-powered propellers that howl like a motorcycle.  More than a dozen start-ups backed by deep-pocketed industry figures like Larry Page, a Google founder — along with big aerospace firms like Airbus, the ride-hailing company Uber and even the government of Dubai — are taking on the dream of the flying car. The approaches by the different companies vary and the realization of their competing visions seems far in the future, but they have one thing in common: a belief that one day regular people should be able to fly their own vehicles around town.



Largest Animal to ever walk the Earth is found
Paleontologists from the Museo Egidio Feruglio in Argentina have named a new supermassive dinosaur. At about 122 feet long and weighing about 69 tons in life, Patagotitan mayorumis is the largest animal ever to walk the planet. It lived about 101.6 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous epoch.  At least six individuals were discovered in 2012-2013 in Patagonia, Argentina. see more
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World's smallest drone is the size of a bee
Harvard Researchers have created the world’s smallest drone. Named the RoboBee, the penny sized drones fly by flapping their two dual membrane wings 120 times a minute. When a voltage is applied, Robo-fly's muscles contract, which researchers can use to precisely maneuver it--enough to keep it hovering perfectly in place, or to dodge efforts to swat it. Originally built to study insect flight, the researchers say Robo-fly might have applications in search and rescue, where it could maneuver through hard-to-reach locations. It still makes a noise that's about as annoying as a real insect, though.  

A bionic eye has been implanted in a human
In a world first, scientists from Bionic Vision Australia have successfully implanted a prototype bionic eye that has helped a woman see shapes. The implantee said she "didn't know what to expect, but all of a sudden, I could see a little flash--it was amazing." Electrodes in the implant stimulate nerve cells, and the user sees "flashes of light".  It's not full vision, but it's an early step toward it. The next stage, the scientists say, is incorporating an external camera into a device, and creating versions with more electrodes. With 98, a person could be able to see large objects; with 1,024, they could recognize faces and large print.



This house was 3D printed in a day 
The house shown above was erected in a town outside Moscow — almost totally constructed with 3D printing. Engineered by Apis Cor, it took less than a day to construct and cost under $11,000 to complete. Amobile 3D printer created the building's concrete walls and partitions as a fully connected structure, rather than printing the building in panels off-site. The portable machine was then removed and a group of contractors added the roof and windows, and finished the interior. Apis Cor proved that this type of construction can be "fast, eco-friendly, efficient and reliable.  
Wireless music in everyroom

Just replace a lightbulb and start streaming crisp, clear audio in to that room. The Twist Speaker has a wireless speaker inside an LED lightbulb to transform your light sockets into simple audio solutions. But wait… there’s more. The light bulb has a lifespan of 12-15 years and the light automatically adapts to the time of day. Some even change colors. Cost: around $50

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For decades scientists have been trying to "catch" a graviton- -the theoretical gravity particle that causes gravity.  After so much time and so much money has been spent - without results - shouldn't we admit that the graviton does not exist.  Gravity is just a property of matter, like inertia.  I hope no one is searching for an inertia particle. Of course, no one would do that unless they got a government grant.

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Amateurs find missing ninth planet

A global hunt for a hidden ninth planet has turned up four possibilities for an undiscovered world beyond Pluto. Last year astronomers at Caltech noticed some peculiar orbits  in some objects out beyond Pluto. "We realized the only way we could get them to all swing in one direction is if there's a massive planet . . . keeping them in place," Caltech astronomy professor Mike Brown said. 21,000 volunteers looked at over 100,000 images to try to find tiny objects moving against a backdrop of motionless stars. The volunteers found four new objects of interest in the photos. Now astronomers are taking over to find out definitively if any of those finds are the real deal

 Humans will soon live in space
Bigelow Aerospace, which launched its first inflatable human-rated habitat last year. The module, known as the BEAM, is currently attached to the International Space Station. Meanwhile, Bigelow Aerospace is working toward making an even bigger space station called the B330, which the company wants to send to space  as early as 2020.  read story



Is this 3D TV?
 
Fluorescent bubbles inside a liquid display could be the next big thing in 3D technology, allowing viewers to walk around the "screen" without using any special glasses, scientists say. Glasses are not neccesary. The display that projects 3D images in a way that makes them visible from all angles. Until now, 3D technology has relied on glasses or headsets for users to experience depth. This new technique uses lasers to create bubbles in a thick liquid. Then, the bubbles are illuminated using a lamp. These colorful bubbles act as voxels (3D pixels), creating three-dimensional images in the fluid "screen," which itself is three-dimensional. A similar device was simulated on the TV series "Bones"