Space nukes, solar lasers & ‘gravity tractors’…how mankind could stop asteroid 2024 YR4 from smashing into Earth

Space nukes, solar lasers & ‘gravity tractors’...how mankind could stop asteroid 2024 YR4 from smashing into Earth

SCIENTISTS have unveiled several options to stop 2024 YR4, an asteroid the size of a football pitch from smashing into Earth. It comes after an expert warned that the chance of the giant space rock colliding with our plant in just over seven years time has increased. 10 Scientists have outlined… Space nukes, solar lasers … Read more

Perfect nap time to boost problem-solving brain power revealed by boffins

Perfect nap time to boost problem-solving brain power revealed by boffins

TAKING an afternoon nap increases problem-solving brain power, scientists say. A study tested 58 people under 30, with half instructed to have a two-hour doze. 2 Taking a two-hour afternoon nap increases problem-solving brain power, scientists sayCredit: Getty Researchers found that group were… Perfect nap time to boost problem-solving brain power revealed by boffins …C0NTINUE … Read more

Contents of 2,000-year-old scroll badly burnt by Mount Vesuvius revealed for the first time using incredible technique

Contents of 2,000-year-old scroll badly burnt by Mount Vesuvius revealed for the first time using incredible technique

AN ANCIENT scroll that had nearly turned to charcoal in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD may be about to have its secrets revealed. After 2,000years, the contents of the scroll can be seen once more after scientists used a combination of X-ray imaging and artificial intelligence… Contents of 2,000-year-old scroll badly burnt … Read more

Stunning pink lake is one of the world’s DEADLIEST – it hides a mysterious secret that turns animals to ‘stone’

Stunning pink lake is one of the world's DEADLIEST - it hides a mysterious secret that turns animals to 'stone'

IT is widely regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful lakes – owed to its unique reddish pink colour. But tourists must not swim in it, and the water is so harsh that it can turn animals to ‘stone’. 8 An aerial view of Lake Natron, TanzaniaCredit: Alamy 8 Its pink hue is a … Read more

Mystery Iron Age skeletons discovered in bizarre seated positions & facing same direction at ancient burial site – The Scottish Sun

Mystery Iron Age skeletons discovered in bizarre seated positions & facing same direction at ancient burial site – The Scottish Sun

RESEARCHERS have made a bizarre discovery in an ancient French cemetery. A group of 13 circular graves have been located by archaeologists working in Dijon, France. 7 13 round pits were found in an iron age Gallic burial siteCredit: © Hervé Laganier, Inrap 7 All of the remains were placed… Mystery Iron Age skeletons discovered … Read more

$1m prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old ancient script and unlock secrets of lost civilisation shrouded in mystery

$1m prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old ancient script and unlock secrets of lost civilisation shrouded in mystery

SCIENTISTS are offering someone $1 million if they can solve a mystery from the Bronze Age. Researchers have long been trying to solve an ancient script from the Indus Valley Civilisation that existed between 5,300 and 3,300 years ago. 7 Ruins of the archaeological site of Harappa, Indus Valley… $1m prize offered to decipher 5,300-year-old … Read more

Mystery Martian hills found on Mars sparking hope ‘time capsule’ mounds will solve biggest mystery from 4BILLION yrs ago

Mystery Martian hills found on Mars sparking hope 'time capsule' mounds will solve biggest mystery from 4BILLION yrs ago

MYSTERY hills have been found on Mars sparking hopes scientists can solve the planet’s biggest mystery from billions of years ago. The Red Planet is dotted with thousands of mounds containing billions of years worth of history including if Mars ever had water. 5 Mysterious mounds have been found on… Mystery Martian hills found on … Read more

Africa is splitting apart at surprising speed and could create new ocean as deep as the Atlantic, experts warn

Africa is splitting apart at surprising speed and could create new ocean as deep as the Atlantic, experts warn

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first discovered in 2005, has been widening by half an inch per year. 7 Women work on their farm near a chasm suspected to have been caused by a heavy downpour along an… Africa is splitting apart … Read more

Nearby alien planet with ‘weather patterns like Earth’ hides deadly secret that would obliterate anything landing there

Nearby alien planet with 'weather patterns like Earth' hides deadly secret that would obliterate anything landing there

AN ALIEN planet with traces of water and “complex weather patterns like Earth” might be seen like a good contender for a Planet B. But it would be impossible for us humans to survive there. 2 These violent gales move at nearly six times the speed at which the planet rotates – a characteristic that… … Read more

Computers on the MOON? Tech firms racing to turn Space into huge solar-powered data centre to feed Earth’s AI revolution

Moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim

TECH firms are racing to launch solar-powered data centres into space that will fuel Earth’s AI revolution. The world’s data requirements are sky-rocketing as AI technology advances at a lightening-fast pace, so firms are thinking outside of the box – and the atmosphere – for solutions. 4 Lonestar… Computers on the MOON? Tech firms racing … Read more