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'It is our obligation to future generations': Scientists want thousands of human poop samples for microbe 'doomsday vault'

1 day ago | livescience.com | Sascha Pare

Scientists are deep-freezing human poop in a "doomsday" vault in Switzerland that already contains more than 1,000 fecal samples, and the researchers now say they want to amass 10,000 samples by 2029. That's because poop contains billions of microbes that scientists want to preserve in case future generations need the bugs to solve medical and other health crises, according to a commentary published Friday (June 27) in the journal Nature Communications.
'Thriving and densely-built': Archaeologists unearth 'tower' houses and ceremonial building in ancient Egyptian city of Imet

1 day ago | livescience.com | Sascha Pare

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of multistory houses and a ceremonial building linked to the cobra-headed goddess Wadjet in the ancient Egyptian city of Imet.
This supermassive black hole is eating way too quickly - and 'burping' at near-light speeds

1 day ago | livescience.com | Robert Lea

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" out excess mass at nearly a third of the speed of light. The discovery was made when researchers studied the supermassive-black-hole-powered Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) of a Seyfert galaxy located about 1.2 billion light-years away. The black hole, designated PG1211+143, has a mass around 40 million times that of the sun and powers a bright quasar.
New chip could be the breakthrough the quantum computing industry has been waiting for

2 days ago | livescience.com | Owen Hughes

Scientists have developed a new type of computer chip that removes a major obstacle to practical quantum computers, making it possible for the first time to place millions of qubits and their control systems on the same device. The new control chip operates at cryogenic temperatures close to absolute zero (about minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 273.15 degrees Celsius) and, crucially, can be placed close to qubits without disrupting their quantum state.
Zombie NASA satellite emits powerful radio pulse after 60 years of silence

2 days ago | livescience.com | Sascha Pare

Last year, scientists detected a mysterious, powerful burst of radio waves originating from within our galaxy. Now, astronomers think it was caused by a long-dead NASA satellite — but they're not sure how it happened. Relay 2 blasted off in 1964, but the communication satellite went offline in 1967 after its two onboard transponders failed.
Scientists invent photosynthetic 'living' material that sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere

2 days ago | livescience.com | Sascha Pare

Scientists in Switzerland have created a new "living" material that contains blue-green algae and could one day be used in buildings to fight climate change, they say. Thanks to the blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, the new material is photosynthetic. This means it can chemically convert carbon dioxide (CO2), sunlight and water into oxygen and sugars, which promote growth.
'A first in applied physics': Breakthrough quantum computer could consume 2,000 times less power than a supercomputer and solve problems 200 times faster

2 days ago | livescience.com | Owen Hughes

Quantum computers capable of outperforming today’s fastest supercomputers may not need to be as large or power-hungry as we thought, researchers at Canadian startup Nord Quantique say. The company has built a quantum bit (qubit) with built-in error correction, eliminating the need for the large clusters of physical qubits typically required for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Nord Quantique plans to scale this design into a 1,000-logical-qubit machine by 2031.
Can you spot these hidden cosmic jewels in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's groundbreaking first image?

3 days ago | livescience.com | Brandon Specktor

The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first batch of images Monday (June 23), captivating the world with one of the most detailed snapshots of space ever taken. Using the world's largest digital camera, the Rubin Observatory will spend the next 10 years taking a time-lapse movie of the entire night sky.
New study claims AI 'understands' emotion better than us — especially in emotionally charged situations

4 days ago | livescience.com | Drew Turney

In what seems like a further blow to a capability in which we thought computers would never outdo us, scientists now suggest AI understands emotions better than we do.
There's a 'ghost' plume lurking beneath the Middle East - and it might explain how India wound up where it is today

5 days ago | livescience.com | Sascha Pare

Scientists have discovered an ancient "ghost" plume lurking beneath Oman. The magma plume is trapped beneath a thick portion of Earth's crust and the upper part of the mantle, the planet's middle layer. As a result, the material can't rise to trigger volcanic activity at the surface.