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[ad_1] Elon Musk says the first human colony on Mars will live in “ glass domes ” and a million people will live there by 2050 after the poles are blown up by nuclear weapons to melt ice sheets and induce warming. Elon Musk shared more details about his plan …

[ad_1] Conservationists have drawn up the world’s first bee diversity map to help trace the distribution of viable pollinator populations. There are about 20,000 individual bee species currently living on Earth, but accurate and compiled data on their distribution was lacking. Researchers from China, Singapore and the United States analyzed …

[ad_1] Scientists inserted a human gene into the monkeys’ brains to make them bigger and more wrinkled in puzzling laboratory experiments. Experts found that inserting the gene, called ARHGAP11B, resulted in a larger neocortex in the fetus than a common marmoset. The neocortex is the deeply grooved outer layer of …

[ad_1] The ‘fossil galaxy’ discovered deep in the Milky Way is the remnant of a star cluster that collided with our own 10 BILLION years ago and was absorbed into its ‘halo’, astronomers say Experts have analyzed the composition and movement of tens of thousands of stars This allowed them …

[ad_1] The moment a meteor enters Earth’s atmosphere like a burning fireball and crashes into the ocean near Australia is captured by the research ship’s cameras A research ship captures the moment a meteor entered our atmosphere The meteor was spotted at 21:30 UTC on Wednesday outside Tasmania Research has …

[ad_1] A species of caterpillar gets “angry” – it gets angry because of hunger – when food is scarce, a new study reveals. The caterpillars of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) become aggressive fighters in their quest to eat milkweed, a herbaceous plant toxic to most animals and their favorite food. …

[ad_1] Glass bottles are much WORST for the environment than plastic because their production uses more energy and resources, according to a study Southampton researchers evaluated various types of beverage packaging They considered the impact of glass and plastic bottles, milk cans and cartons Part of the problem with glass …

[ad_1] Scientists have revealed the world’s first complete T-rex skeleton, which was buried in sediment after a deadly duel with a triceratops 67 million years ago. Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops horridus, nicknamed the “Dueling Dinosaurs”, are kept together in what is thought to be a predator-prey encounter, where both fought …

[ad_1] A London bus-sized asteroid missed Earth by just 240 miles on Friday the 13th in the closest ever recorded passage, but was not spotted until the next day. The rock – dubbed 2020 VT4 – was seen 15 hours after its hiss It was detected by the last earth …

[ad_1] Scientists solve the 16-year-old mystery of the Blue Nebula, discovering that it formed after a sun-like star consumed a smaller stellar companion The Blue Nebula was discovered in 2004 and has baffled scientists ever since A new study reveals that it is the youngest known example of two stars …