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An Anti-Universe Twin

Our universe has an anti-universe twin moving backwards in time, study finds

Seconds after the Big Bang, the Universe exhibited an astonishing simplicity. Observations reveal a spatially flat, radiation-dominated cosmos described by a Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) metric. This early state included small, Gaussian, and nearly scale-invariant scalar perturbations.

However, there is no evidence for primordial vector or tensor perturbations, nor for cosmic defects. These observations align with the prevailing inflationary model, which suggests that an era of rapid expansion preceded the Universe's observable state.


Despite its utility, inflation theory introduces complexities and arbitrary parameters, which many physicists view as unnecessary. A team led by Neil Turok and Latham Boyle challenges this conventional framework, offering an alternative grounded in the symmetry of the Universe itself.         READ MORE...

Questions About Death

Life and death are two sides of the same coin that have puzzled humans since the beginning of time. While science has made incredible progress in understanding how the body works and what happens during death from a biological perspective, there are deeper questions that remain beyond the reach of microscopes and lab experiments.

Everyone thinks about death at some point, and these thoughts often lead to profound questions about existence, consciousness, and what might happen after our final breath. 

Modern science gives detailed explanations about the physical process of dying, but just like ancient philosophers, today’s brightest minds still grapple with the mysterious and philosophical aspects of death that seem impossible to solve through scientific methods alone.  READ MORE...

Possible Alien World

Possible alien world bubbling over with volcanoes detected deep in space

It’s thought that there is at least one planet for every star in the galaxy. That means that there are billions of planets in our galaxy alone, and many of these could be in Earth’s size range. So far, researchers think they have found 5,000. But now, one research team has possible evidence that they have found an exoplanet [meaning a planet outside the solar system] with a sulphur-rich atmosphere deep into space (Picture: Getty)     READ MORE...

A Living World in Space

A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-term interstellar travel, potentially lasting centuries. The concept involves an initial crew living, reproducing, and dying aboard the ship, with their descendants continuing the journey.

Originally conceived by US rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard, this enormous space ark is an enclosed, self-sustaining world with its own ecosystem, designed to meet all the needs of its crew as they travel for centuries or even millennia to their destination.


Equipped with agriculture, habitation, and life-support systems, these ships are intended to ensure survival across multiple generations.

Project Hyperion is part of a study aimed at assessing the feasibility of crewed interstellar flight using current and near-future technologies and hoping to guide future research and technology development while educating the public on the logistics and potential of interstellar travel.    READ MORE...

Death Might be an Illusion

What happens after we die? While many believe that death is the end, quantum physics suggests that it might not be as simple as we think.

In fact, it could be an illusion. This idea challenges everything we know about life and death. By looking at concepts like the interconnectedness of all things and the nature of consciousness, here’s to a whole new perspective on life after death.

Dr. Robert Lanza, a leading expert in biotechnology, plays a major role in this idea. He’s the Chief Scientific Officer at the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where he studies stem cells and how they can be used to treat diseases.

Before this, Dr. Lanza focused on researching embryonic stem cells and cloning, working with both animals and humans. He is also an adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina.     READ MORE...

Interstellar Tunnel

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 light-years, this region glows in X-rays due to its million-degree temperature. However, because its atoms are so sparse, this extreme heat barely affects the matter inside. It’s fortunate for life on Earth, but this enigmatic bubble has long puzzled astronomers.


Theories suggest that the LHB was carved out millions of years ago by supernova explosions. A chain of these stellar detonations likely blew away the interstellar medium, creating this expansive cavity. Recent breakthroughs from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) have shed light on the LHB's true nature and its intricate structure.     READ MORE...

Bosses FIRING Gen Z Grads

After complaining for the better part of two years that Gen Z grads are difficult to work with, bosses are no longer all talk, no action: Now they’re rapidly firing young workers who aren’t up to scratch just months after hiring them.

According to a new report, six in 10 employers say they have already sacked some of the Gen Z workers they hired fresh out of college earlier this year.

Intelligent.com, a platform dedicated to helping young professionals navigate the future of work, surveyed nearly 1,000 U.S. leaders. It found that the class of 2024’s shortcomings will impact future grad

After experiencing a raft of problems with young new hires, one in six bosses say they’re hesitant to hire college grads again.  Meanwhile, one in seven bosses have admitted that they may avoid hiring them altogether next year.

Three-quarters of the companies surveyed said some or all of their recent graduate hires were unsatisfactory in some way.         READ MORE...

String Theory Requires Extra Dimensions

String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force. Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force carriers called gluons, would supplant it, but in the deep mathematical bones of the young string theory physicists would find curious structures, half-glimpsed ghosts, that would point to something more. Something deeper.


String theory claims that what we call particles—the point-like entities that wander freely, interact, and bind together to make up the bulk of material existence—are nothing but. Instead, there is but a single kind of fundamental object: the string. These strings, each one existing at the smallest possible limit of existence itself, vibrate. And the way those strings vibrate dictates how they manifest themselves in the larger universe. Like notes on a strummed guitar, a string vibrating with one mode will appear to us as an electron, while another vibrating at a different frequency will appear as a photon, and so on.  READ MORE...

Thousands of UFOs Orbiting Earth

Could the truth about UFOs be closer to home than we think? Especially in light of revelations from the United States Space Force shedding light on a multitude of unidentified objects in Earth's orbit?

Established during the Trump Administration to explore UFOs and space anomalies, the Space Force has encountered thousands of such objects, creating a challenge in threat identification, the agency's primary mission, according to The Daily Mail.

Recent communications show the sheer volume of sightings is hindering the Space Force's ability to distinguish potential threats from man-made space junk or “natural debris” like meteoroids. This revelation has sparked significant national interest in the United States and other countries.   READ MORE...

AI Can Reproduce AI On Their Own

A scientific collaboration has achieved a breakthrough in creating larger AI models that can autonomously develop smaller AI models.

These smaller models have practical applications such as identifying human voices, monitoring pipelines, and tracking wildlife in confined spaces.

The self-replicating AI concept has sparked negative reactions on social media, with references to sci-fi scenarios like Terminator and The Matrix. (Trending: Prominent LGBTQ Activist Arrested Over Disturbing Charges)

Yubei Chan, one of the project’s researchers, said “This month, we just demonstrated the first proof of concept such that one type of model can be automatically designed all the way from data generation to the model deployment and testing without human intervention.”

“If we think about ChatGPT and tiny machine learning, they are on the two extremes of the spectrum of intelligence,” he continued.     READ MORE...

US Ship Attacked

Above, te guided missile destroyer USS Carney patrols the waters of the Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch. The Pentagon said on Sunday that the USS Carney had come under attack in the Red Sea.   © FELIX GARZA/US NAVY/AFP via Getty Images


The Pentagon on Sunday announced that attacks had been carried out on a United States warship as well as commercial vessels stationed in the Middle East, which could be a significant escalation in the ongoing war in the region.

"We're aware of reports regarding attacks on the USS Carney and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and will provide information as it becomes available," the Pentagon told Newsweek. The news was first reported by the Associated Press.

The U.S. has strongly backed its longtime ally Israel in the aftermath of an October 7 attack carried out by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which left some 1,200 dead. 

Israel's government declared war on Hamas, which is backed by Iran, and has bombarded Gaza, which the group governs, while also cutting off fuel, food and electricity to the densely populated area. More than 15,000 Palestinians have died since the bombing began.  READ MORE...

Quietly Arming Taiwan

When US President Joe Biden recently signed off on a $80m grant to Taiwan for the purchase of American military equipment, China said it "deplores and opposes" what Washington had done.

To the casual observer it didn't appear a steep sum. It was less than the cost of a single modern fighter jet. Taiwan already has on order more than $14bn worth of US military equipment. Does a miserly $80m more matter?  READ MORE...

The Problem Everyone Worried About

There is no easy way to explain the sum of Google’s knowledge. It is ever-expanding. Endless. A growing web of hundreds of billions of websites, more data than even 100,000 of the most expensive iPhones mashed together could possibly store. But right now, I can say this: Google is confused about whether there’s an African country beginning with the letter k.

I’ve asked the search engine to name it. “What is an African country beginning with K?” In response, the site has produced a “featured snippet” answer—one of those chunks of text that you can read directly on the results page, without navigating to another website. It begins like so: “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter ‘K.’”    READ MORE..

Russia Loses 1000 Troops a day in Ukraine

The Ukrainian military on Sunday claimed to have killed nearly 1,000 more Russian soldiers as the conflict in the war-torn country continues.

Russian President Vladimir Putin first began his "special military operation" on Ukraine in February 2022 based on dubious claims of mistreatment of ethnic Russian residents and that the Ukrainian government was being run by Nazis, even though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a native Russian speaker of Jewish heritage. 

The Eastern European country responded, however, with a stronger-than-expected defense effort, bolstered by Western aid, that has blunted Russian military gains.  READ MORE...

Don't Call Them UFOs

Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray speaks in front of a video display of a UAP during a hearing on Capitol Hill of the House Intelligence, Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee hearing on "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." ((Alex Brandon / Associated Press)) © Provided by LA Times

If the truth is out there, Congress would like to know.

The House and Senate are taking significant steps to increase the federal government’s ability to monitor and identify UFOs and to force the military to release more information to the general public.

Three former military officers who claim they’ve had encounters with unidentified flying objects will testify to the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. In the Senate, lawmakers have added a bipartisan amendment to a must-pass defense bill that would compel the military to gather and declassify UFO-related information.

The parallel efforts are part of a growing bipartisan push to investigate the phenomenon. True believers and skeptics agree that they want to know what these objects are — and whether they pose a national security risk.

Congress held its first public UFO-related hearing in decades last year, hosting Pentagon officials. But Wednesday’s hearing will feature the first public, unclassified testimony from servicemembers whose interest is in exposing what they believe they witnessed.  READ MORE...

The Pixel Watch

When we reviewed the Pixel Watch back in October, we genuinely liked Google’s first Android smartwatch, and found it to be a solid choice for those not already deep into Samsung’s eco-system. 

One thing we weren’t so keen on was the Pixel Watch’s
disappointing battery life, but if leaked details turn out to be correct, that’s a problem Google plans to fix with the Pixel Watch 2.

As with the original Pixel Watch, Google is expected to announce its second Wear OS-based smartwatch sometime later this year closer to the holiday shopping season. 

Details have been sparse, but according to unnamed sources who recently spoke to 9to5Google, we now potentially know a little bit more about how Google plans to address the shortcomings of the original with the Pixel Watch 2.

Goodbye Samsung Exynos, Hello Qualcomm Snapdragon
The original Pixel Watch arrived with a Samsung Exynos 9110 chipset under the hood, which was already at least three years old at the time, having shown up in Samsung’s own smart wearables a few years prior. 

The Pixel Watch’s interface never felt laggy or like its processor was being over-taxed, but for the Pixel Watch 2, Google is apparently ready to trade-up to the latest W5-series Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, which will double the number of A53 cores (from two to four) which are built on a 4nm process that will deliver other benefits besides raw processing power...   READ MORE...

Windows Drivers

Microsoft is dealing with a couple of unrelated processor driver problems that are causing headaches for some Windows users.…

Redmond's Windows Update tool is automatically replacing the existing AMD GPU drivers for Windows 10 and Windows 11 with older versions, causing compatibility problems between the newly installed driver and AMD Software already deployed in the devices.


AMD acknowledged the problem and outlined a solution.


Meanwhile, Microsoft issued a temporary fix for a situation where the integrated camera app on some mobile devices, such as Surface Pro X tablets, running on certain Arm-based processors stopped working. The workaround developed by the software maker gets the camera up and running again, though it isn't a complete fix.

In the last couple of weeks, some Windows users were greeted with a dialog box when trying to launch AMD software on mobile and all-in-one systems warning them of the automatic Microsoft Update move and the resulting compatibility problem. When users got out of the warning box, AMD Software wouldn't launch.  READ MORE...

Long Lasting Phone Batteries

Phone batteries tend to wear out after only a few years, but the problems don’t end there: the batteries contain heavy metals, which can be damaging to the environment if they are disposed of incorrectly. And yet, figuring out how to dispose of your old phone correctly can be a daunting task. Luckily, researchers in Australia may have just found a way around all of that.


The team of researchers from the RMIT School of Engineering used a nanomaterial called MXene to create a battery that could last up to nine years. ScienceDaily reports that this battery could become a viable alternative to the industry standard lithium-ion batteries, which wear out very quickly and are a challenge to recycle.

MXene has high electrical conductivity, similar to graphene, but with even more benefits because of how malleable it is, according to the researchers.


“Unlike graphene, MXenes are highly tailorable and open up a whole range of possible technological applications in the future,” Professor Leslie Yeo, the lead senior researcher on the project, told ScienceDaily.  READ MORE...

Hypersonic Generator

• Turning gas into plasma creates an intense electrical current for powering potent hypersonic weapons.
• Chinese researchers built a hypersonic generator that could power military lasers, rail guns, and microwave weapons.
• The relative compact nature of the hypersonic generator opens the scope of potential uses.

Chinese scientists say one formidable explosion inside a shock tunnel can turn hot gas into the most powerful hypersonic generator a military has ever seen—strong enough to charge military lasers, rails guns, microwave weapons, and more.

As reported by the South China Morning Post, a new peer-reviewed paper in the Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics explains how the hypersonic generator turns one detonation inside a shock tunnel into enough electrical current to power hypersonic weapons of the future.

The Chinese scientists were able to use a controlled detonation to turn hot gas into a plasma filled with racing ions, which converted to current. With shock waves accelerating the compressed argon gas to 14 times the speed of sound, the charged ion-filled plasma then passed through magnetohydrodynamics generators to produce electric current up to 212 kilowatts while using.26 gallons of gas. That’s enough power for a burst of energy unlike anything available now in a compact system.

“It has a large capacity and high efficiency," the scientists write, via the SCMP. “There is no need for intermediate energy storage components. The energy can be directly transferred to the load without a high-power switch. And the device can start up quickly.” The generator also has no rotating parts, increasing efficiency and ease of use.

With some of the largest weapons in development requiring a gigawatt of input power, the researchers say they can produce that with 177 cubic feet of hypersonic plasma (that’s smaller than most vans).   READ MORE...