Author: Daniel Tom

Beijing wants to саtch up and mimic the best in Ameriсаn weарoпry. China’s Z-10 аttасk helicopter emerged in 2003 as what could be seen as a rather transparent response to the wᴀʀ-teѕted and һіɡһly effeсtіⱱe U.S. Apache helicopter. After all, the Z-10 does appear to have a number of similaritіes, which may пot be by…

NASA’S Voyager 1 is on a fraught and unknowable journey into deep space. Some 14.6 billion miles from Earth, it and its sister craft, Voyager 2, are the furthest human-made objects from our planet, having made it beyond the edges of the Solar System and out into the interstellar medium. At such distances, anything can…

According to a new study from the University of Oslo, one side of the Earth’s interior is losing heat much faster than the other—and the culprit is nearly as old as time. The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, calculates how “insulated” each hemisphere was by continental mass during the last 400 million years. Insulation is a key…

In and of itself, the cosmos is a conundrum. From the singularity of our own solar system to dark matter. This last one is perhaps one of the Universe’s most fascinating and unresolved mysteries. It is undetectable. It is undetectable. It is not audible, tactile, or olfactory. Even the most advanced and sophisticated engineering equipment…

The European nuclear research facility CERN announced on Tuesday that scientists using the upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had identified three previously unknown particles. After a three-year suspension for improvements, the world’s biggest and most powerful particle collider resumed operation. The modernized LHC enables researchers to analyze twenty times more collisions than previously. Using the…

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Jupiter’s icy moon is a great candidate for habitability. But life’s best chance to exist is beneath the crust. Jupiter fills the sky as seen from Europa’s surface in this artist’s concept, which shows the moon’s rough, white-and-red terrain in the foreground and the Sun in the far background. Europa, one of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons,…

Recent discovery, shows that black holes can make stars just as well as they can eat them. Astronomers came to this conclusion after watching a black hole 30 million light-years away make stars in a small galaxy called Henize 2-10. Experts say that this discovery, which was made possible by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, is…

NASA has produced a breathtaking 12-year time lapse movie of the entire sky, demonstrating how the world around us has changed. A NASA satellite observatory has developed a time-lapse film that shows how the sky has changed over the course of a decade. We can see cosmic wonders in photographs, but we can feel them…

In under 300 hours, the world-renowned CSIRO telescope in Australia surveyed the whole southern sky in amazing detail and record time, discovering 3 million previously unseen galaxies. The feat, announced on December 1 by Australia’s national science organisation CSIRO, has swiftly made headlines throughout the world for developing a new atlas of the universe. According…