- Dinosaur experts in Argentina believe they have found bones belonging to the biggest and heaviest dinosaur to have ever walked the Earth. The beast would have weighed as much as 14 elephants and been as tall as a seven storey building. Based on its huge thigh bones – which are the length of a fully grown man – it was 40m long and 20m tall. It’s thought to be a new species of dinosaur – an enormous plant eater that lived around 95 million years ago.
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- A scientist has claimed that humans will be able to find aliens within the next 25 years. According to LiveScience, SETI’s Seth Shostak says that by 2040, astronomers would have scanned enough of the space so as to detect alien-produced electromagnetic signals. Sostak made the comments during a Feb 6 discussion at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts symposium at Stanford University. He said that instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, they would have looked at maybe a million star systems by 2040.
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- Devastating floods continue to cripple the countries of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia in south Eastern Europe. The European Union is sending aid to help the millions affected by the worst floods seen there in a century. Â The same amount of rain that usually falls over three months, has fallen in just a few days. Â Thousands of volunteers are working together to help rescue people whose homes have been flooded. Â They are building barriers to keep the water away and trying to get food supplies to those stranded. The authorities and volunteers are helping get aid to where it’s needed in all three countries. But this sort of cooperation would have been unthinkable 20 years ago when the same countries were at war.
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- Lamps that follow you around and tables that bring you your dinner is not far from coming to reality as “Roombots” bring the concept of going mobile to your furniture. Scientists from the Biorobotics Laboratory (Biorob) at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have created what they’re calling “Roombots,” modular robotic balls that can roll around, join together and merge with furniture to make it mobile.
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- Scientists have discovered that the earliest living organisms on Earth were capable of making a mineral that could be found on Mars. The clay-mineral Stevensite has been used since ancient times and was used by Nubian women as a beauty treatment, but scientists had believed deposits could only be formed in harsh conditions like volcanic lava and hot alkali lakes.