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A scanning electron microscope image of the incredible tardigrade. (Credit: Tanaka S, Sagara H, Kunieda) Microscopic tardigrades, also known as “water bears,” are the toughest animals on the planet, capable of withstanding intense radiation, extreme temperatures, and even the vacuum of space. In a fascinating new study, researchers have shown that tardigrades are poised to…

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Elon Musk just announced the launch of a new website, x.com. The billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX made the announcement on Twitter at 1:21am Pacific time this morning. But so far there isn’t much to look at. The website is just a single letter X. Musk formerly owned x.com when…

Image: Youtube (Screenshot) Sometimes, we humans let our dumb values prevent us from taking biological realities seriously. Take pooping, for example: People have decided pooping is gross, even though it’s a thing that most of us do literally every day. Now, some scientists think that even cannibalism is worth another hard look. Cannibalism naturally occurs…

GIF Researchers in Europe have created a soft artificial heart that mimics the real thing. It’s still not ready for prime time, but the approach, in which the developers used silicone and 3D-printing, could revolutionize the way patients with heart disease are treated. Patients with severe cardiovascular problems are typically hooked up to blood pumps while…

For those not entirely up on the high-end camera scene these days, here’s a quick catch-up. In an arena that has been dominated by Canon and Nikon since pretty much forever, Sony’s star has been on the rise. It had been making solid mirrorless cameras for a while, but when its A7 series came out…

Image: Dennis Yang/Flickr Creative Commons There’s no doubt that if we’re going to stop or even slow down climate change, we have to get our collective shit together. But collective action starts with individual choices, and for all the data-driven decision makers out there, the path forward just got a bit more lucid. A new…

Drone Racing Is Starting to Look More Exciting Than a Top Gun Dogfight Racing drones still isn’t considered as challenging as other vehicular sports given the pilots… Read more To ensure its races are decided by the skills of the pilots, and not the amount of funding and pricey hardware each team can secure, the…

SEOUL – North Korea takes ’appropriate measures’, as the UN Security council with new sanctions. Sanctions will be considered after the test with an intercontinental ballistic missile last week. The rakettest belongs according to Pyongyang’s legitimate right to self-defence against the nuclear threat of the US’. The ’appropriate measures’ could very well be a new…

PARIS – With the American president Donald Trump as the guest of honor has France Friday national holiday celebrated. Trump followed Friday on the side of the French head of state, Emmanuel Macron, the traditional military parade on the Champs-Élysées. Immediately after the start flew fighter planes in formation over the boulevard of Paris. The…

WASHINGTON – The wall that the Us president, Trump along the Mexican border will drop, no wall from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Instead of secretions along the 3200 kilometre Us-Mexican border is a wall that is somewhere between 1100 to 1450 km long. This has Trump said on board his plane on the…