Psychologist Gert Storms doesn’t want to review scientific papers if their authors refuse to share with him the underlying data. The American Psychological Association , which publishes the journal he edits, has asked him to resign.
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How we’re already seeking life on TRAPPIST-1’s rocky planets
WE ARE already taking the first steps toward learning if there could be life on TRAPPIST-1’s newly discovered planets – and what that life might look like. Last week, a team led by MichaA l Gillon at Belgium’s University of Liege announced that TRAPPIST-1, a small, faint star some 40 light years away, has four more rocky planets to join the three we already knew about.
7 Earth-size planets identified in orbit around a dwarf star
‘A leap forward’: Scientists found that seven Earth-size planets orbit the dwarf star Trappist-1. If our sun were the size of a basketball, Trappist-1 would be a golf ball.
Newly-found star system has SEVEN Earth-like planets
We’ll know if life exists in a decade, but it is likely to take hundreds of thousands of years to reach the system Seven Earth-like planets have been discovered orbiting nearby dwarf star ‘Trappist-1’, and all of them could have water at their surface, one of the key components of life. Researchers claim that they will know whether or not there is life on any of the planets within a decade, and said ‘this is just the beginning.’
7 Earth-like worlds could be best bet to find alien life – CNET
Astronomers call it the most incredible star system they’ve ever seen. A newly discovered set of exoplanets only 39 light-years away could be the perfect lab for finally proving we aren’t alone.
‘Seven sisters’: astronomers find star system with multiple Earth-like planets
Seven planets with size and mass similar to Earth’s have been discovered orbiting the same nearby star, prompting astronomers to dub the finding our “seven sisters”. It’s been extinct for about 4500 years, but Harvard geneticists are working to bring a version of the woolly mammoth back to life.
Ant odd couple work together to build and keep a healthy nest
One is a massive black ant, the other is a tiny, only distantly related, brown ant. But together they form a perfect team to build and guard a shared nest.
Surgical robot makes highly precise eye injection possible
For the first time ever, a team of eye surgeons were able to inject a thrombolytic drug directly into a patient’s retinal vein to dissolve a blood clot. It was a success despite the fact that the vein is as thin as human hair thanks to a surgical robot developed by researchers from KU Leuven , a university in Belgium.