By India Ashok
The world of science and technology is constantly being bombarded with new innovations and discoveries. Everyday, we find out new things about ourselves and the world around us. However, sometimes, the sheer amount of news coming out these fields can be overwhelming to follow. In fact, more often than not, some truly interesting science and tech news stories slip through the cracks of media reporting and you, as a reader, lose out.
However,Qriusis here to ensure that you never have to miss out any of the important science and tech news out there. Our editorial team dedicatedly gathers the biggest news of the week to bring you your weekly dose of nerdgasmic news.
Nasa’s going to park its next space station right next to the moon
Nasa will team up with Roscomosthe Russian space agency to build a moon base. The partnership between the two space agencies will involve the development of a manned space station, orbiting around the moon, which will act as a launching point for missions to the lunar surface, as well as those exploring deep space.
“NASA plans to expand human presence into the solar system starting in the vicinity of the Moon using its new deep space exploration transportation systems, the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. This plan challenges our current capabilities in human spaceflight and will benefit from engagement by multiple countries and U.S. industry,” Nasa said in a statement.
Stephen Hawking’s last theory about the Big Bang
Celebrated physicist, Stephen Hawking’s recent demise rocked the science world. However, Hawking’s brilliance appears to not be limited by death. On May 2, Hawking’s very last theory on the origins of the universe was published in the Journal of High Energy Physics.The new study, if confirmed, is likely to completely revolutionise the world of theoretical physics.
We are not down to a single, unique universe, but our findings imply a significant reduction of the multiverse, to a much smaller range of possible universes, said Hawking in a previous interview.
During the Ice Age, humans hunted giant sloths
Do you remember the adorable and sometimes annoying animated character called Sid in the popular Ice Age movie series? Now imagine him with wolverine-like claws and eight feet tall. According to scientists a monstrous, giant sloth once walked the Earth and our ancestors actually hunted these prehistoric creatures.
Researchers uncovered a fossil footprint, dating back to the Ice Age, that indicates that these giant sloths lived around 11,000 years ago and were hunted by humans in groups.
“Piecing the puzzle we can see how sloth were kept on the flat playa by a horde of people and distracted by a hunter stalking the sloth from behind, while another crept forward and tried to strike the killing blow as the animal turned,” Matthew Bennett, a professor of environmental and geographical sciences at Bournemouth University in England, said in a statement.
Meet the newest beetle to be discovered – Leo DiCaprio
A newly discovered water beetle species, that was found in Malaysia has been named after the Academy Award winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio. The tiny beetle was named after the actor in tribute to the 20th anniversary of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and the efforts the organisation has made to preserve biodiversity.
“Tiny and black, this new beetle may not win any Oscars for charisma, but in biodiversity conservation, every creature counts,” Taxon Expeditions’s founder and entomologist, Dr. Iva Njunjic, said in a statement.
AI can determine your personality by just looking at how your eyes move
Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) powered algorithm that can figure out your personality just by staring into your eyes. The AI helped researchers predict four of the five common personality traits, which include openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
The algorithm predicted “neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousnessas well as perceptual curiosity, based only on the eye-movement tracking data,”Newsweekreported. Researchers believe that as the AI is fed more data, its predictions will become more and more accurate.
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