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3,000-year-old golden bowl hides a grisly archaeological tale

YoopyaOct 21, 2014July 15, 20230

In 1958, archaeologists were digging through the ruins of a burned Iron Age citadel called Hasanlu in northwestern Iran when they pulled a spectacular, albeit

Comet makes rare close pass by Mars as spacecraft watch

YoopyaOct 21, 2014July 25, 20230

(Reuters) – A comet from the outer reaches of the solar system on Sunday made a rare, close pass by Mars where a fleet of

Scientist Meets Largest Spider In The World And It’s Actually Pretty Harmless

YoopyaOct 20, 2014July 25, 20230

But it’s sickeningly massive This is a pretty reassuring story for arachnophobes, but the pictures might make your stomach lurch: a scientist found a spider

A look at how your voice is being used to ID you

YoopyaOct 13, 2014July 29, 20230

LONDON (AP) — Businesses and governments around the world are increasingly turning to voice biometrics, which sometimes are described as voiceprints, to replace passwords and

Light bulb moment: Low-energy LED wins Nobel prize

YoopyaOct 8, 2014July 25, 20230

(Reuters) – An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for inventing a new energy-efficient and environment-friendly light

Mission Accomplished: India Joins Mars Explorers

YoopyaSep 24, 2014July 25, 20230

NEW DELHI (AP) — India triumphed in its first interplanetary mission, placing a satellite into orbit around Mars on Wednesday and catapulting the country into

NASA’s Maven spacecraft enters Mars orbit

YoopyaSep 22, 2014May 25, 20230

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Maven spacecraft entered orbit around Mars for an unprecedented study of the red planet’s atmosphere following a 442 million-mile

Physicists Make Big Leap In Quantum Teleportation

YoopyaSep 22, 2014July 25, 20230

Physicists in Switzerland said Sunday they had succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal, in which information transited from light

Banana peel study, ugly art research win Ig Nobel spoof awards

YoopyaSep 19, 2014July 16, 20230

By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) – Researchers who measured the slipperiness of banana peels, the ability of pork strips to stop nosebleeds, and the reactions

Radical New DNA Sequencer Finally Gets into Researchers’ Hands

YoopyaSep 17, 2014September 2, 20230

A DNA sequencer the size of a cell phone could change where, and how, gene research occurs. One day in 1989, biophysicist David Deamer pulled