By: Jonathan O’ Callaghan/IFL Science Do you like optical illusions? Sure you do. And what better way to spend your day than seeing another. Let’s take a look now. This optical illusion below is particularly trippy. It shows a variant of what’s called the “Café Wall Optical Illusion” and was created by a magician from…
Researchers Discover “Angel Particle” Which Is Both Matter And Antimatter At The Same Time
By: Jonathan O’Callaghan/IFL Science A team of scientists has found evidence for an unusual particle that, bizarrely, is also its own antiparticle. It was first theorized 80 years ago but now looks like it might be a reality. The findings, published in the journal Science, were conducted by scientists from Stanford University in California and…
What Are The “Sonic Weapons” Being Used To Attack American Diplomats In Cuba?
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Something’s afoot in Havana. Over the last 24 hours, reports are coming down the grapevine claiming that five US diplomats and at least one Canadian envoy have fallen ill, all suffering from acute hearing loss, headaches, and nausea. The cause? A covert sonic device – an acoustic weapon – that’s being used to…
Carl Sagan’s Eerily Accurate Prediction About The Demise Of America
By: Buck Roger/Waking Times Far from being a mystic or a prophet, Carl Sagan was a man of science, a man of analytical reasoning, with a penchant for wonder and appreciation for the mystery of the cosmos. He’s well-known for his statement that‘we are made of starstuff,’ just beings composed of atomic matter and held together by physics. Published…
Scientists Just Made A First Ever Observation Of Einstein’s Theory Of General Relativity
By: Karla Lant/Futurism New analysis of data from the ESO’s VLT and other telescopes reveals stars orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way exhibit relativity effects. Future analysis may reveal more support for relativity and new physics. NEW OBSERVATIONS Scientists have applied new analytical techniques to data gleaned from the European Southern Observatory’s…
China Built The World’s Biggest Telescope But They’ve Got No One To Run It
By: Jonathan O’Callaghan/IFL Science China may have the world’s largest radio telescope in the world, but they’re apparently running into a few problems. Namely, they can’t find someone to run it. Known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), China opened this huge dish in September 2016 to study the cosmos. Among its numerous goals, it will be…
Japanese Scientists Make “Unmeltable” Ice Cream
By: Tom Hale/IFL Science Melted ice creams, the destroyer of pleasant sunny days, are a problem as old as the frozen treats themselves. Fortunately, a team of Japanese engineers has the solution. Strangest of all, the story of this dessert development began with the massive tsunamis and earthquakes that struck Japan six years ago. The Biotherapy Development…
IBM Announces Record Breaking New Data Storage Device
By: Dom Galeon/Futurism ON A ROLL Magnetic tape drives have been around for more than six decades now. Its commercial use has been mostly for storing data, such as tax documents and health care records, from mainframe computers. From the first 2-megabyte tape drives in the 1950s, today’s versions are now capable of storing up to…
California Sets Its Sights On Being 100 Percent Renewable By 2045
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science California is a powerhouse of clean energy. Not only does it have a long history of investing in hydro, wind, and solar power, but its current governor, Democrat Jerry Brown, is ensuring that the state sticks to the goals of the Paris agreement even if the White House foolishly eschews it. Now, a pair of…