Supercomputer Embarks on Effort to Help Map the Universe, Dark Energy and All

A national laboratory in California, armed with a powerful supercomputer, is set to create a highly detailed, three-dimensional map of the universe. The customized HPE Cray EX supercomputer from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. was installed recently at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a U.S. Department of Energy facility. NERSC is located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley, Calif.

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Scientists Revive Tiny Animals Frozen for 24,000 Years In Arctic Permafrost

The tiny multicellular microbes sprang back to life and produced offspring after 24,000 years.

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Flying cars are "imminent" new study finds

Science fiction has been promising us flying cars for decades, but now a new super-heated battery design could finally make this a reality for eVTOL.

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10 Lies Answers in Genesis Tells About Lucy

Donald Johanson’s book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind was what first made me fall in love with paleoanthropology. While I have learned about dozens more fossils over the last two years, I still have a special place in my heart for Lucy. So you can imagine how excited I was to defend her from the lies of the young-earth creationists at Answers in Genesis! I once might not have known how to debunk their claims, but I now have the knowledge, the books, and a little bit of money needed to find so many errors in their articles.

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Jeff Bezos and his brother will fly on Blue Origin's first tourist flight

What's the point in building a crewed spacecraft if you can't take a spin in it yourself? Turns out, those bidding for a seat on Blue Origin's first suborbital tourist flight next month will be joined by two special guests: The private aerospace company's founder, and the world's second richest person, Jeff Bezos, and his brother Mark.

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Samsung shows off stretchable OLED screen in prototype heart rate monitor

We’ve had curved displays for a while now, but what about stretchy ones? Samsung says it’s making progress building screens “that can be stretched in all directions like rubber bands,” and that the first applications for this material could be in building flexible health tech.

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NIH launches clinical trial of universal influenza vaccine candidate

A first-in-human, Phase 1 trial assessing the safety and immunogenicity of an investigational nanoparticle influenza vaccine designed to provide long-lasting protection against multiple flu virus strains has begun at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Healthy participants 18 to 50 years old will receive either a licensed seasonal influenza vaccine or the experimental vaccine, FluMos-v1. Scientists from NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) developed FluMos-v1 to stimulate antibodies against multiple influenza virus strains by displaying part of the influenza virus...

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