The future of overland cargo shipment and human travel is taking shape in the deserts of Dubai. The Daily Mail writes that billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, founder and CEO of Virgin, is getting behind the development of what is called hyperloop technology. Daily Mail Hyperloop uses a pod and tube system in which the pods are levitated and accelerated through the tubal system through electromagnetism, reaching speeds of up to 760mph.

When it comes time for our Sun to essentially die, it will do so in a brilliant fashion. Following its planned end-of-life explosion 10 billion years from now, an enormous nebulous cloud of dust and gas will swirl throughout the void and, scientists now predict, will radiate a light that will slowly diminish over 100,000 years as the celestial debris coalesces into a white dwarf star. Pixabay Previously, the scientific community thought that our sun was not large enough to form a glowing nebula, but after observing the luminescent remains of suns similar in size back in the 1980s, doubts emerged.

Supersonic commercial flights have been hiatus since 2003, after the British-French Concorde went belly up to due to expensive operations and prohibitive passenger fares. While aeronautic enthusiasts mourned the end of such flights, those living in the path of the incoming and outgoing airplanes felt relief that the loud, bone rattling sonic booms of the Concorde would no longer be heard. Wikimedia Commons If NASA has its way, though, supersonic flights will make a comeback soon, but will do so much more quietly, reports Fox News.

From Yellowstone to Hawaii to the Gulf of Mexico, the Earth has been shaking and trembling in ways that have some people wondering what’s going on, and others warning that something bigger – much bigger is on the horizon. Los Angeles Times The conversation about what’s happening only intensified on Tuesday after residents of Southern California were jolted awake with a 4.5 earthquake at 4:49 am. The epicenter was near San Gorgonio Pass about 85 mile east of downtown Los Angeles, but it was felt from San Diego to Santa Clarita.

If the hospital doctor gazes deeply into your eyes and tells you that you’re getting very, very sleepy, it might not be from any sort of anesthetic.That’s because the Wall Street Journal is reporting that many major hospitals are now turning to hypnosis as a medical solution for some of their patients. Flickr From the Wall Street Journal: Hypnotherapy—when patients enter a trance-like state using relaxation and visual images—is often associated with alternative medicine.

Many have claimed that we know more about outer space than we do about the depths of our own oceans and that may be true. Fortunately technology and know-how is helping us to plunge the deeper and deeper into the ocean depths, and we’re finding some pretty remarkable things. _ _ IFLScience This is exactly what happened when the Nautilus Live expedition was exploring the ocean floor and a sea creature known as as siphonore appeared in one of the cameras on its remote operating vehicle (ROV).

You ever have those people in your life that, whenever you’re around them, can just kind of knock you out of your orbit? Well, the Earth does, too! Except those people are planets and they go by the name of “Jupiter” and “Venus.” Pixabay Scientists are finally confirming what they’ve suspected for many years, that every 405,000 years the gravitational pull of Jupiter and Venus warp the Earth’s orbit from a circular orbit around the Sun to one that’s 5% elliptical.

The depths of the Atlantic Ocean have given up one of its rarities this past week, alarming beach-goers and exciting marine biologists and paleo-anthropologists. Daily Star On May 4, Stephanie Hall of Ocean Gate, NJ was on a morning run on Island Beach State Park, located along the coast at about the mid-way point of the Jersey shoreline, when she spot a rather strange looking head from the appearing to look around.

Can the golden years in life still be a time of sexual desire and intimacy? This is the question asked by scientists out of Michigan. According to a report from the University of Michigan referenced by The Guardian, there is a sizeable chunk of seniors that are still sexually active and a much larger cadre of elders who say that sex is important in all stages of life. Pixabay The Michigan research found that 40% of those surveyed between the ages of 65 and 80 were sexually active.

The buzz all started in 2015 when archaeologists studied high resolution images of the northern and western internal walls of King Tut’s tomb. Zooming in on the high resolution images, they found markings in the plaster the bore and uncanny resemblance to ones found by Howard Carter in 1922. Pixabay Carter’s markings turned out to be the entrance to King Tut’s Tomb itself! So, when scientists made the discovery and then radar specialist Hirokatsu Watanabe confirmed their findings in 2016, Egyptologists minds ran wild with the possibilities of what could be found in the secret chamber.