UFO Captured During Protests In Hong KongIt looked like it pulled off something on that building.
Comparing the ufo to the building, that has to be a pretty good sized ufo. definitely not a drone.
Multiple Ancient Civilizations Around The Globe Depicted The 'Handbag of the Gods'What is it? A kind of high-tech device? An ancient kind of communication device?
Numerous ancient civilizations depicted the curious item. It has been found in Sumer, America, and Göbekli Tepe.
Pope Francis: The Devil Is Much More Intelligent Than Us
Pope Francis Warns That The Devil Is More Intelligent Than Mortals So Do Not Argue With Him
Pope Francis has given out a warning stating that the devil has more intelligence than mortals and so it is wise not to argue with him. The pope made the claim that the devil is not a concept or a metaphor but someone real that has dark powers.µ
The pope was talking to a Catholic TV channel and wildly gesticulated with his hands to get his point across when he continued by saying that the devil was evil and not like mist, he is not diffuse, he is a real person. He went on to say that people should not get into a conversation with Satan as if they do they would be lost. The devil is a lot more intelligent that mortals and the pope went on to say that he would turn mortals upside down and make their head spin.
He is evil, he’s not like fog. He’s not a diffuse thing, he is a person. One must not talk to Satan, if you start talking to Satan you are lost, he is more intelligent than us
Pope Francis said that the devil always pretends to be polite and this is something that he has done in the past with priests and bishops and it is how the devil is able to enter the mind. However, if the person does not realize what is happening to them in time then it all ends in a bad way and this he why it is important to tell Satan he should go away.
This is not the first time that Pope Francis has spoken out about the devil in sermons. He is also known for taking to the social media channel Twitter to talk openly about Satan and the pope has more than 40 million followers. He often uses terms such as Satan, the seducer, Great Dragon, Prince of darkness and Beelzebub when referring to the devil.
Vatican analyst Austen Ivereigh said that it was a Jesuit thing. He described the pope as being a Jesuit who is imbued with spiritual exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola and this means that he can discern the movements of any bad and good spirit. He went on to say that for the pope the devil is real and not just a metaphor and due to the fact that this is not the way that people speak today, there are some Catholic people who are taken aback. Ivereigh went on to say there are a great many people who are uncomfortable with believing in the idea that evil is real, however, those who know about the spirituality of Jesuits are not surprised by the words of the pope.
Three years ago Pope Francis spoke to a convention of exorcists who had gathered from around the globe and said that they were doing an excellent job in combating the work of the devil. He went on to say that exorcists should show love and the welcome of the church to those who were possessed by evil.
When addressing the crowd at St Peters Square in 2013 the pope said that the devil will often make an appearance under the disguise of an angel and talk to people. Pope Francis is also not afraid to speak out about the many devious ways in which the devil operates during daily homilies in the guesthouse chapel inside the Vatican.
The pope has even gone as far as suggesting that the words of the Lord’s Prayer should be altered so that the devil is blamed instead of God for leading people into temptation. He went on to say that the prayer had been translated badly from Greek that was used in the New Testament and blaming the devil would be a better reflection on the true meaning. Pope Francis said that it was not a very good translation as it was not god pushing people into temptation to see how they have fallen. This is not something that God would do; a father is there to help you get straight back up if you have fallen. Satan is the one that leads people to temptation.
The Pope believes that the life of the Christian person is one continual battle against evil.
How to watch NASA's big announcement TODAY (1 p.m. Eastern time)
Later on Thursday afternoon, NASA will hold a press conference announcing a new discovery from its Kepler satellite, a telescope designed to spot planets orbiting other stars. The agency has kept its cards close to the chest, but it has said, "The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google."
The press conference, which begins at 1 p.m. Eastern time, will be live-streamed on the NASA website. Although the phone line for the event will be limited to journalists only, the public can ask questions on Twitter using #AskNASA.
Source: www.newsweek.com/...
What could it be?
UFO MADNESS: Truth about the 'Earth-sized UFO' caught on camera that suddenly vanished
Reports said "horrified onlookers" watched as the monster UFO was seen "hovering above them" in the skies over Australia.
The clip was uploaded to YouTube yesterday with the title "Earth Sized UFO Sighted in Australia... Moves into the Sun!."
The video description states: "Planet sized UFO starts moving about and finally moves into the Sun. Another smaller UFO is sighted also."
It does not say where in Australia it was filmed.
In the footage, which was filmed directly at the Sun, a second large bright circular object can also be seen in the sky, Dailystar.co.uk reports.
It appears to move about, with some onlookers suggesting it has been spotted or is being pursued.
That 'UFO' is just the solar disc (of the Sun) reflected through glass.
The glowing subject then appears to move behind the sun, before a blinding light blocks the camera view, in what some suggested was an explosion or take-off manoeuvre, by an enormous alien craft.
When the camera is re-focussed, the orb appears to suddenly flit away.
Some viewers were convinced it was a UFO and some sort of craft.
One said on YouTube: "I saw something that looked very similar around this time last year.”
Another claimed it was just swamp gas, which is caused by rising methane from a pond.
However, in fact there was nothing actually there, and it was simply a reflection of the Sun.
We sent the footage to Scott Brando, a sceptic, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org.
He said: "That 'UFO' is just the solar disc (of the Sun) reflected through glass.
He said the apparent object suddenly disappeared as the camera zoomed in and the glass was "likely removed."
Mr Brando pointed us to an article by a fellow debunker, who showed how almost identical footage said to show a "second Sun" was caused by glass in front of the camera lens.
Mick West, administrator of the Metabunk.org website, said: "A popular video claims to show an object in the sky that resembles a 'second sun'.
"However analysis of the video proves that what is shown is an offset lens reflection of the Sun itself.
"There is nothing else in the sky. The effect is also not a sun-dog, an atmospheric reflection, or a mirage. It's just a reflection happening at the camera.
"We can see this quite clearly if we stabilise the video so the background is fixed.
"We can then see the reflection moving with the camera motion. Notice how the small movements of the reflection are in sync with the large movements of the lens flare.
"Offset lens reflections occur when a flat piece of glass, such as a filter, is in front of the camera, but is tilted slightly away from the plane of the camera, either accidentally, or deliberately.
"When combined with a second flat optical surface, like the protective cover of a cell-phone camera, or a second filter on a larger camera, you get a fainter reflection of the sun offset from the actual sun in the direction of the tilt."
He then simulated the same effect by attaching a glass slide to his phone with a rubber band.
UNDER ATTACK? UFO 'filmed firing laser at International Space Station' in NASA footage
NASA footage from the ISS live cam yesterday shows a strange object opposite the space station, that appears to emit a red beam at intervals, according to YouTuber Streetcap1.
He posted the clip to his YouTube channel which regularly puts forward alleged evidence of aliens and UFOs.
In his video entitled 'UFO Fires Red Beam at the ISS?', he said: "These lights appeared next to the space station.
"I checked the pre-archive footage and they don't appear on any other footage as far as I can see
"Look at the red light coming from them and going to the space station… its pretty strange."
The object itself that he thought might be a UFO appeared to resemble many other alleged ISS sightings that have been previously debunked as lens flares from the camera or reflections of the ISS itself.
The ISS also did not appear to sustain any damage in the clip.
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LASER: The red beam towards the bottom centre is the focus of the video.
Look at the red light coming from them and going to the space station… its pretty strange.
Streetcap1 added: "Maybe it's lens flare, I don't know what's causing it.
"In the previous shots hours ago there was no evidence of it at all.
"It could be lens flare, but I can't see what was causing it.
"Its shape was what was most interesting to me."
He then said NASA appeared to try to zoom the camera away from the object, as if to hide it from view.
Many of Streetcap1's followers felt he was on to something.
Vikki Ledgard posted on YouTube: "I think that series of red lights looks like the lights of some huge vessel (mothership if you prefer)."
Arthur Tasev said: "This slipped through the net from NASA."
David Waddington added: "It is a craft of some sort and I think the ISS was expecting it, camera on infra red would probably show a lot more."
Juliana Jaynes said: "How long is this going to go on? It is more than obvious there are ships EVERYWHERE."
James Paul added: "That appears to be the same craft that’s been seen manoeuvring around the ISS and boosters heading to orbit.
"I believe it’s an anti-gravity craft that belongs to the USAF along with other craft of the same type only smaller."
However, Erika Demiral was less convinced.
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THE TRUTH? This artist's rendition shows OPALS laser operating from the International Space Station.
She said: "Is it possible it's a reflection of an electrical panel inside the ISS?"
Express.co.uk showed it to debunker Scott Brando, who runs website ufoofinterest.org.
He believes the red lines were laser beams, but not from aliens, but NASA itself.
For the past few years the agency has been sending data to and from the space station by red laser beam from the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) project based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
NASA's website states: "OPALS beams packets of information using lasers, which allows for sending data at a faster rate compared with transmission by radio waves."
NASA onthult straks nieuws over hun planetenjacht - HLN.be
Bron: Independent, Guardian
NASA gaf enkel prijs dat het vannamiddag om 17 uur onze tijd een persconferentie geeft en dat de ontdekking werd gedaan door de ruimtetelescoop. Nog volgens NASA was Google betrokken bij wat ze een ‘doorbraakontdekking’ noemen.
Daarnaast houdt NASA de lippen voorlopig stijf op elkaar, maar er zijn enkele zaken die wijzen op wat de aankondiging zal inhouden. Vooreerst:
In 2009 werd de Keplertelescoop de ruimte in gelanceerd, al die tijd speurt die naar exoplaneten. Dat zijn planeten die draaien om andere sterren dan de zon. Het bestaan van deze planeten is voornamelijk afgeleid van indirecte waarnemingen en daarop gebaseerde berekeningen. NASA is zo tevreden over het werk van de ruimtetelescoop dat ze in 2014, een jaar nadat zijn taak er officieel opzat, een nieuwe reeks onderzoeken met de Kepler startten. Toen de missie begon, wisten wetenschappers niet hoeveel exoplaneten er zijn, maar intussen werd duidelijk dat ze vaker voorkomen dan gedacht en dat elke ster er minstens één heeft.
De Keplertelescoop scant het zwerk voortdurend en bekijkt daarbij meer dan 145.000 sterren. Wetenschappers zijn vooral alert voor sterren wier licht dimt wanneer een planeet voor ze komt te staan. Door de patronen van dat dimmen te onderzoeken, kunnen ze achterhalen hoeveel planeten elke ster heeft en hoe die eruit zouden kunnen zien.
Nu NASA heeft aangekondigd dat ze iets nieuws hebben ontdekt en een persconferentie houdt “om de laatste ontdekking gemaakt door de planeetjagende Keplertelescoop aan te kondigen”, zitten astronomieliefhebbers op het puntje van hun stoel.
Vier wetenschappers zullen het persmoment leiden:
NASA kiest altijd de meest relevante en meest onderlegde ingenieurs en wetenschappers om op dergelijke evenementen het woord te voeren, zodat de vragen van de pers en het publiek zo gedetailleerd mogelijk beantwoord kunnen worden. Dat Jessie Dotson er bij is, maakt duidelijk dat Kepler een hoofdrol speelt in de ontdekking, en dat het dus gaat over iets wat die telescoop heeft gespot. Het werk van Dotson focust op asteroïden. Zo hielp ze NASA bij het samenstellen van een team dat berekent hoe groot het risico is dat zo’n asteroïde op de aarde knalt.
Vanderburg werkt vooral rond exoplaneten en hun sterren en maakt daarbij gebruik van gegevens die door Kepler worden doorgestuurd. Zijn specialiteit is het opsporen en beschrijven van exoplaneten. Hertz en Shallue zullen hun organisaties en wat zij hebben bijgedragen aan de ontdekking in de verf zetten.
De lijst doet dus vermoeden dat het te maken heeft met exoplaneten, hun sterren en mogelijk ook asteroïden. Hoewel Kepler voor veel andere dingen wordt gebruikt dan het zoeken naar planeten die rond sterren tollen en leven zouden kunnen bevatten, is het waarschijnlijk dat deze aankondiging betrekking zal hebben op zo’n planeet.
Odd Encounters with the Mysterious Little People of Alaska
All across the world, in almost every culture there have long been reports of so-called “little people,” and it is so common throughout geographical or cultural boundaries that it is a phenomenon in and of itself. Gnomes, Elves, Trolls, Duendes, they go by many names, and curiously they tend to share not only vast similarities in the general appearance of such creatures, but also the genuine sightings reports from these places that seem to pull these entities out from the realms of pure fantasy or fairy tales and into the real world. I have written of this here at Mysterious Universe before in general, and also more specifically on this phenomenon in places as far flung as South America and Japan, and such accounts never cease to amaze. One area with its own tales of mysterious little people is the frigid, far-northern land of Alaska, in the United States. Here, as in many other places around the world, strange little people roam about, and they are seen by the populace as being every bit as real as you or I.
Out in the wilds of the northern U.S. state of Alaska, the native tribes of the region such as the Inuit and Yup’ik have long had their own tales of little people living out in the forests and frigid tundra here. Depending on the tribe or tradition these enigmatic creatures go by many names, such as the Ircinrraqs, Inukin (also often spelled “Enukin” or “Inukun”), Ircenrraat, Ingnakalaurak, Egassuayaq, and the Paalraayak, although they seem to most commonly be collectively referred to as the Inukin, or Enukin, and for the purposes of this article they will be referred to as such.
The Alaskan wilderness
Prominent in the lore of many of these northern peoples, although there are different details depending on the tribe, the Inukin are most often described as being between 1 to 3 feet in height, typically dressed in animal skins and with pointed heads and elfin ears. The Inukin are mostly said to prefer to stay underground or hidden away in the mountains during the day, only venturing out at night, and are mostly characterized as being mischievous, bed-tempered, and mean, seeming to enjoy tormenting people. It is commonly said that they will intentionally try to get travelers lost or throw rocks at them, and that they have a bad habit of stealing the kills of hunters, with caribou said to be among their favorites, and they are also hunters themselves, using bows and arrows. At their most sinister, the Inukin are thought to abduct women or children and drag them off to never be seen again. They are usually credited with having superhuman strength and a host of supernatural powers such as shapeshifting, invisibility, and the power to sow confusion in the minds of those who see them. One old Inupiaq man named Majik Imaje said of these little people and their strength:
They live in the old ways to this very day they dress in caribou skins. They still hunt with bow & arrow. They live underground, and in caves all throughout this vast area. They possess super human qualities that you will never believe. They are incredibly strong and they can run, very fast; they sneak around the villages stealing food. When any hunter shoots and kills a caribou, it requires two adult Inupiaq men to lift that caribou to place on a sled. It only takes ONE Ingnakalaurak or Enukin to pick one up and RUN WITH IT, over his head. Hunters, experienced hunters, often talk about caribou that they have shot & killed. Dead and the caribou will disappear before they reach it to dress it out. Make no mistake, these people are very good in what they do, they are perhaps the best hunters in the world.
Imaje also claims that this is why some bush pilots have reported seeing the strange sight of caribou running on their sides, only to fly lower and see that they are actually being carried along by an Inukin. These beings are also said to sneak into villages at night when everyone is asleep to steal food and goods, but interestingly, although they are mostly avoided and for all of their more malevolent tendencies, these creatures are also said to have a benevolent side as well. For instance, it is supposedly good luck to receive a gift from them when they are feeling generous, and on occasion instead of playing pranks they will take pity on a lost soul out in the woods and guide the way.
It is interesting how many of the details of the Inukins match the lore of other little people from various other cultures around the world, such as their general appearance and similar habits and powers attributed to them, as well as their curious mixture of both mischievous, prankish behavior and contradictory more benevolent tendencies, which is a common trait in such creatures in a great many other cultures as well. Also, just as with other cultures, although outsiders may see these little people as surely purely mythical constructs, the natives of this region see them as very real indeed, with many insisting that the Inukins actually exist. Supporting these claims are the various real sightings and encounters with such beings, which blur the line between reality and what must seem like fairy tales to many.
Indeed, villagers and hunters of the region have long told of seeing Inukins and having their things stolen by the creatures, and some outsiders have reported seeing such little people out in the wilds as well. Very common are reports of hunters who have shot and killed an animal, only to go to retrieve it and find it gone, without any trail of blood or trace of where it has gone. Also common are stories of having rocks come flying from the woods out of nowhere, followed by a fleeting glimpse of a small, child-sized shadow in the brush. Some of these encounters are rather amazing to say the least, such as one hunter who claimed that he one day heard a strange noise, only to follow it and find a portal in the side of the mountain, through which he could see a group of Inukins dancing. He claimed that he had only watched them for a moment, but that when he got to his sled it seemed to have aged in the elements and his game had rotted away, and when he returned home it turned out that he had been gone for an entire year. It is tale that is said to have really happened, but which seems as if it must surely be colored with some legend.
Others are more based in actual eyewitness accounts. In 1993, the Arctic Sounder published an impressive range of accounts of encounters with the mysterious Inukin, which would later be republished in the Anchorage Daily News. In one of the accounts, a villager from near the Noatak river named Kenneth Ashby recounts a rather ominous experience he had with the creatures while fetching water from the river with his brother in the summer of 1938. As they made their way through the wilderness, Ashby claims that they were jumped and attacked by a group of feral little people about 3 feet in height, with bowl-style haircuts and draped in caribou skins. After a fierce struggle they managed to escape when the creatures were distracted by the arrival of the two young men’s grandfather.
Ashby claims that that very same summer his sister chased off a group of the creatures trying to steal her catch of salmon at the river. Ashby would have another encounter with the Inukins 9 years later, when he was camping at the river with a group of relatives on a hunting trip. He reports that during the night they could hear the crunching of leaves and the Inukins communicating with each other in strange, bird-like whistles, but whenever they went to look for the elusive creatures they would scamper away, as if playing hide and seek. They played this game all the way down the river up to the village, where they were finally chased away back into the wilderness by the local men.
The series of articles also told the account of local woman in the same area named Flora Penn, who claims that she was out with friends traveling up the Noatak and at one point they stopped to pick some berries. As they did so they suddenly noticed a tiny man with a large, bulbous noise, big pointy ears, and a cone shaped head casually sitting upon a driftwood tree smoking a pipe. Penn says they watched the curious little man for a full hour, and the whole time he just smoked his pipe and looked around. Then suddenly, the creature was reportedly either spooked by something or remembered he had something important to do, and he then bolted upright to start running towards the nearby mountains at a frantic pace.
Another witness named Saul Shiedt had an encounter with one of the mysterious little people one summer as he was hunting caribou. After bagging a caribou, he set to work skinning it, and that was when he says he heard the voice of someone speaking in the Eskimo language. When he looked to see who it was, he saw that the voice had come from a diminutive man around 3 feet in height and armed with a bow and arrow. The two had a brief exchange and inspected each other’s respective weapons, with Saul himself armed with a high powered rifle. According to Saul, the Inukin’s bow was too tight for him to pull, and he imagined it must have taken immense strength to make it work. The hunter then told the mysterious stranger that he could take what he wanted from the caribou, and the only thing the Inukin supposedly wanted to take was the fatty part under the knee of the animal. Joining these tales of weirdness is a tale told by a Joe Sun, who said that one day a man had been hunting out in the wilds and had set his sights on a trophy caribou but that there was another hunter who was also pursuing it. He said of the strange sequence of events in the incident thus:
I hear from my parents in the Maniilaq area that there was this man hunting.
He had a real rifle. (Not the old kind that you had to load through the barrel
with a rod.) He saw a caribou he wanted to get close to, to have a shot at it.
He saw another person trying to hunt this caribou too. When this man, a big
man, got close to shoot the caribou it changed into a little man. The big man
jumped at the little man who escaped and began running and climbing up the
mountain.
Perhaps an even stranger story was reported in the May 31 edition of the Anchorage Daily News, and which seems to address the predilection of these Inukin to abduct people. According to the report, a hunter from Marshall, Alaska going by the name Nick Andrew Jr. was out on his snowmobile hunting birds on May 7 and came across a young boy sitting alone out in the middle of a marsh. When he approached the boy he saw that the child seemed to be in some sort of trance or daze, and it was odd that there were no tracks anywhere around him. Asking other snowmobilers in the area didn’t help, because none of them had seen the boy at all. The boy seemed to have just appeared out of nowhere. When Nick asked him what had happened or where his parents were, the boy, who was obviously upset and with a face red and swollen from crying, sputtered out that he didn’t know, and was unable to provide any information at all. The hunter would say:
The boy was disoriented, dazed, confused and scared, with no concept of time. He did not appear tired, nor was he hungry or thirsty.
The concerned Nick decided to help the boy out and took him back to his village, where things would get even more bizarre. After he had come to his senses and calmed down somewhat, the boy claimed that he had been abducted by the little people and taken to nearby Pilcher Mountain, interesting since this particular mountain is known as a hotspot for Inukin encounters. At the mountain he was held captive, and claims to have seen a little girl also being held there who had vanished in the area 40 years earlier. He says that the Inukin had eventually decided to let him go, and had dumped him into the marsh. The boy displayed classic symptoms of lost time, and was unable to provide any details as to where he had been taken.
The 2013 book Myths and Mysteries of Alaska, by Cherry Lyon Jones, gives some curious accounts as well. One of them concerns what appears to have been a rather helpful Inukin. One day an Inupiaq man named Luke Koonuk was out hunting in the area of Point Hope, Alaska, but was out in incredibly remote, isolated terrain when his 4-wheel drive vehicle became stuck in a patch of muck. He was allegedly unable to budge the vehicle by himself, and with no one around for miles and miles it seemed that he was in quite a bit of trouble. After trying to move the vehicle and get it unstuck to the point of exhaustion, the panicked hunter reported that the truck had suddenly and inexplicably risen up, shifted, and then come bouncing back down out of the mud. As he looked on in bafflement, he claims that he could fleetingly see the blur of a shape of a little bipedal creature of some sort dash off into the trees.
The same book gives another account which is really hard to classify, and could be read as a Inukin encounter or one with aliens, but considering the location seems worth mentioning. The report comes from a group of teenagers in Nome, Alaska in 1988. The boys allegedly were driving along at night when they noticed an odd, pulsing light in their rear view mirror. Curious, they turned their vehicle around and went back to see what was going on, and as they approached they saw a humanoid creature between 3 to 4 feet tall, with broad, muscular shoulders standing there bathed in a greenish light. As the car approached, the creature allegedly ran away, but was quickly overcome by the vehicle and apparently run over. The boys would later find that other people had seen one or more of the same sort of creatures in the area at around the same time, either standing by the side of the road or in some cases even chasing vehicles, and there was apparently much talk at the time that this was perhaps the Inukin.
It is fascinating that such reports can be so similar to those of little people in other areas across the face of our planet, and yet still maintain their own stamp of uniqueness. Why do so many cultures throughout the world have traditions and myths of such creatures and why do they so often offer so much resemblance? Are these just some immutable feature upon the landscape of our psyche, or is there something more to all of this? What are these people seeing, if anything? Although such stories of gnomes and trolls may seem to many like something out of a fairy tale, to these people they are most certainly real. Why should that be? Are we, in our technologically advanced civilization with all of our science and shiny toys perhaps missing something? Whatever one may think about such reports, they continue to come in from all over the globe, and they hint at something very odd indeed.
Mysterious Ocean Smoke Rings Seen from Outer Space
If something on Earth is visible from space, that means it’s big. If it’s acting like something scientists have never seen before in the ocean, that’s not good. If the thing appears to be a giant smoke ring spinning so fast that it’s capable of sucking up fish and moving them far from their schooling grounds, that’s strange and probably bad … unless you own a fish market. Unfortunately, these mysterious ocean smoke rings are real and experts are at a loss to explain them.
For the initiated or those who have never made or seen a smoker’s smoke ring, they’re formed by pushing small amounts of non-inhaled smoke out of the mouth. Adding jaw and tongue movements give them a backspin that makes them tight and last longer. Those giant smoke rings in the sky that everyone is allegedly so afraid of are made using a vortex generator, which releases a cloud and then shoots a hole through the middle, causing the smoke to roll backwards and form a ring. Bernoulli’s principle states that faster air has lower pressure, so the slow outside air keeps the ring together. (cough-cough)
According to a press release from the University of Liverpool, researchers using sea level measurements and surface temperature images taken from satellites discovered strange linked eddies moving in opposite directions of each other. Those opposing spins allowed them to move 10 times as fast as normal eddies and in directions they don’t normally travel in. Chris Hughes, lead author of the study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters and a sea level scientist (probably a busy man these days), explains:
“Ocean eddies almost always head to the west, but by pairing up they can move to the east and travel ten times as fast as a normal eddy, so they carry water in unusual directions across the ocean.”
And what’s in the water? The researchers believe the ocean smoke rings suck up fish and other marine life and transport them at high speeds to parts unknown. Do the fish get smoked? No, but something strange is going on that Hughes can’t explain.
“The smoke rings require an area of calm water to ‘puff’ out through, which itself is quite unusual. I’ve looked at other areas of other oceans but I’ve only seen them in the oceans around Australia, plus one in the South Atlantic.”
Could these smoke rings generate enough power to transport a ship? Or suck one into the vortex? Does this sound like the beginnings of an Australian Bermuda Triangle? It’s worth keeping an eye on. The fish will appreciate. It.
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Mysterious Ice Balls Reappear in the Gulf of Finland
Like the swallows return to Capistrano – oh, wait, they don’t return there anymore. Like the buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio, the ice balls have returned to Russia, this time in the Gulf of Finland off the country’s northwestern coast. Ice balls? Isn’t that what they call high school proms in Siberia?
Pictures of the mysterious ice balls began showing up on social media on December 10th. The balls are strangely uniform in size – about 7 inches (17 cm) in diameter … that’s slightly smaller than a volleyball and double the diameter of a softball. In other words, these are not the kind of ice balls you find floating in drinks at your fancier Christmas parties. Witnesses saw thousands of them bobbing in the frigid water against the shore. The scene was reminiscent of the appearance of the ice balls last year in the Gulf of Ob near a beach in western Siberia. That was reminiscent of the scene in 2015 when thousand of ice balls popped up in the Gulf of Finland, this time off the coast of Tallinn in Estonia. And all of those look like the ice balls that show up regularly on Lake Michigan in the US. What are they and why do they keep coming back to certain locales?
Good guess but no.
The “what” starts with slushy “slob” ice, which is that mushy not-quite-a-berg stuff that is ill-suited for skating. The next ingredient is wind, which blows the slob ice around. Ingredient number three is location – the slob ice needs to be blown around in very shallow waters so it rubs against the shore or sea bed and is rolled into balls much like the start of a typical snowman. Finally, the temperature needs to drop so the balls freeze. All that’s left is timing – the best time for them to show up is overnight so the locals think they’re the frozen eggs of whales, giant sturgeon or aliens.
That where this year’s ice balls become more mysterious. Beyond Russia reports that local ecologist Ilya Leukhin thinks the cause of these balls (pictures here) was not slob ice but an oil spill or industrial oil runoff.
“Salt water is a mix of a variety of salts, so it crystallizes unevenly under cold flows. Crystals are formed around the nucleus. And in this case, water has crystallized around a gas bubble or hydrophobic liquid, a drop of which has a round shape in water.”
An ice ball with a hydrophobic (water-repelling oil) center? Sounds like you shouldn’t pick one up and lick it.
Put down that ice ball!
As to why the ice balls keep returning mysteriously to the Gulf of Finland or Lake Michigan, the best guess is rare coincidences based on those spots having the right slob-ice/salinity/shallowness/temperature/wind combination.
Or if could be really cold aliens.
New Image of a "Stellar Nursery" is Majestic But Also Terrifying
From Earth, stars seem like tiny twinkling jewels that bedazzle the night sky. But but up close and personal, they’re tightly packed spheres of plasma that are continuously radiating energy into outer space.
The way stars are born is even more horrifying, as we’re about to get into, but from a safe distance the process is mind-bogglingly beautiful, as this new photo from the European Southern Observatory reveals.
Astronomers managed to photograph a stellar nursery they have named Sharpless 29 with the ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope in Chile. This star breeding ground is in the constellation Sagittarius, 5,500 light-years away, and it’s packed with gases and dust, which are exactly the vitamins and minerals baby stars need to grow up big and strong.
The full image captured by the ESO.
All stars need to start their lives are giants clouds of space dust and gravity to pull all those particles together. Sharpless 29 has both. Once a space cloud — or a nebula — gets so massive it begins to collapse and clump together into thousands of balls of gas, known as solar masses. These stellar embryos, if you will, keep swirling and gathering mass until become what we see as a sparkle in the night sky.
During this period infant stars — much like human babies — throw some pretty catastrophic tantrums. They spit out wads of molten matter, gas, and dust. All of this star puke is mixed with potent rays of ultraviolet light to create the intergalactic mosaic you see before you.
Part of ESO's Paranal Observatory. It is the largest telescope in the world surveying the sky in visible light.
The glowing red mist comes from the emissions of hydrogen gas and those bright blotches of blue light are caused by the reflection and scattering effects of tiny dust particles. Those dark, vein-looking areas running through the red area are caused by patches of dust that block out the light, preventing astronomers from capturing what lies behind.
This magisterial image of Sharpless 29 isn’t just something to stare at after a blunt. Scientists are constantly working to grasp more of the processes that occur thousands of light-years away. Photographs like these help them better understand the building blocks of the universe that surrounds us.
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Reported UFO sighting was probably the Army's Golden Knights
Members of the Army Golden Knights descend upon Sicily Drop Zone to deliver an American flag to the Oler family during the 20th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop on Dec. 2, 2017 at Fort Bragg.
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By DREW BROOKS | The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) — Fort Bragg’s Golden Knights frequently display unworldly talent as they perform around the globe. But are they aliens? Team, are highly trained soldiers who have wowed crowds at air shows, international competitions and sporting events for nearly 60 years. They also perform on and around Fort Bragg — where they are based — throughout the year.
But at least one person in the Knights’ own backyard confused the paratroopers for a UFO.
On Dec. 1, a user of the website ufostalker.com reported a sighting at about 5:25 p.m. on Nov. 30. The website is a real-time tracking system based on reporting to the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON.
“[Five] burning orbs appeared to be coming through the atmosphere before rapidly changing directions, both descending and ascending,” the user wrote. “[Three] more orbs came in and did similar things before this.”
The date and time of the sighting corresponds to Fort Bragg’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony. The event draws thousands to the Main Post Parade Field each year for family-friendly events, including musical performances, an appearance by Santa Claus and a jump by the Golden Knights.
The report at ufostalker.com includes a video of the sighting, which clearly matches videos taken of the Golden Knights at the tree lighting event, including one posted by this reporter during the tree lighting ceremony.
Millions of people see them perform each year. They have also earned more than 2,000 gold medals in international and national competitions and nearly 2,000 silver and bronze medals, too.
The team has also broken roughly 350 world records.
But, by design, most of their jumps take place in daylight.
The Nov. 30 jump was a rare exception.
Before they could light the post Christmas tree, officials needed the skies to darken. So, naturally, the Golden Knights jumped as night fell on the nation’s largest military installation.
And they compensated for the lack of visibility by strapping on flares.
It made for quite the show. And to at least one person, it was an out-of-this-world experience.
Military editor Drew Brooks can be reached at brooksd@fayobserver.com
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Bloke claims to have snapped REAL alien proof from his back garden
COULD this be the best UFO photo you’ve seen ever?
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µUFO SIGHTING: Ed Walters claims to have taken a photo of alien proof
This startling image could finally prove the existence of aliens at last.
The eerie sighting was snapped up over the Gulf Breeze in Florida, by building contractor Ed Walters.
He claims to have taken the photos from his back garden before handing them to the local media in the area, Pensacola News Journal reports.
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ALIEN PROOF? The eerie image was taken over the Gulf Breeze in Florida
The discovery sparked a year-long skywatching campaign for further evidence by excited locals and visitors, in what became known as the “Gulf Breeze Sightings”.
Ed claims to have taken the pictures on November 11, 1987, and 30 years on, it still sparks a debate about whether they were real or hoaxed.
George Williams, state section director of the Florida Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), said: “I really don’t have a good opinion on whether they’re faked or not.
“There was so much controversy about it and MUFON went back and forth about it for years.”
Talking about how the area has had a lot of sightings, George added: “We still get reports of interesting stuff in the area.
“And in 1987, you had hundreds of people besides Walters reporting sightings. It’s always been an interesting area.”
“I think they’re real”
Bruce Maccabee
“There was so much controversy about it and MUFON went back and forth about it for years.”
Talking about how the area has had a lot of sightings, George added: “We still get reports of interesting stuff in the area.
“And in 1987, you had hundreds of people besides Walters reporting sightings. It’s always been an interesting area.”
Though some people claimed the sighting was fake, Ed wrote his own book on the case, called “Gulf Breeze Sightings”.
He had some supporters, including UFO hunter Bruce Maccabee, who said: “I think they’re real.”
Bruce added: “You had politicians reporting seeing objects.
“There were so many sightings that you have to account for, unless you believe there was massive collusion on the part of the residents of Gulf Breeze and Pensacola.”
Meanwhile in November, aliens hunters were left stunned after photos appeared to show a UFO hoovering over a navy base.
The remarkable snaps appear to show an alien craft floating above the ground with a helicopter close by.
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Google Maps is a source of many weird and wonderful things, including objects which weren’t necessarily supposed to be seen.
The most recent strange sighting on Google Maps is a reflective object in the middle of a field, which closely resembles a UFO.
The satellite image of the suspected UFO is taken from far above, suggesting the owners of the object did not know it was being taken.
It is located in a barren looking field, which is almost entirely empty of other objects save for a white block which could be a lorry.
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Google Maps UFO: The suspected spacecraft has been spotted via a satellite camera
The suspected UFO is surrounded by lights in a cross formation, with strong beams extending out in four directions.
The huge beam of light makes it difficult to see the exact shape of the aircraft, although it appear to have at least one point jutting out of it giving it a triangular appearance.
Previous UFO sightings in Belgium have reported the same triangle like shape for UFOs.
However, a user comment posted on the social sharing forum Imgur – where the Google Maps image was featured – offers another possible explanation for the suspected UFO.
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Google Maps UFO: Conspiracists think an alien base is hiding below this floating lake
Last week, a Google Maps secret alien base was discovered on the platform, sparking curiosity.
The base, it is believed by ufologists, is beneath a mysterious floating island on the site in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
It is known as the “rotating island”, because it floats on top of a circular lake.
In the past, alien conspiracy theorists have campaigned to travel to the site to explore the supernatural rumours surrounding it.
Chilling moment UFO 'follows' a plane before dipping suddenly from view as puzzled passenger films the bizarre sighting over Britain
An airline passenger filmed what appears to be a UFO high in the skies over Britain when a small, bright object seemed to follow alongside the plane before suddenly dipping out of view
Liz Dunphy
An airline passenger filmed what appears to be a UFO high in the skies over Britain when a small, bright object appeared to follow alongside the plane before suddenly dipping out of view.
The chilling video tracks the plane's journey above the clouds when the object, which resembles a very large, inflated plastic bag suddenly appears in the distance.
It is not clear what the object really was or whether the footage, captured in 2015, was doctored but it comes amid a surge in reported UFO sightings across Britain.
Eerie lights that resembled a flying saucer were seen hovering in the sky over Kent last week, prompting locals to say that it must either be aliens or Santa Claus scouting the area before Christmas Day.
Grant Brendan filmed the eerie illumination that resembled a flying saucer as it moved silently forwards and backwards in the sky near his home in Ramsgate.
Kent is a popular destination for UFOs according to the Kent Unidentified Flying Objects Research Group which claims that the coastlines around East Kent and South Kent are major UFO areas.
In February, Kent made the headlines again for possibly hosting alien life }a group of six mysterious lights were seen hovering in the sky for half an hour over Hythe and Folkestone.
The Ministry of Defence, which runs training ranges nearby, denied any involvement with the strange airborne apparitions and their origin remains unknown.
Kendrick Lamar Definitely Saw a UFO & Doesn’t Care If You Believe Him
By Bianca Giulione in Music
On Tuesday, Kendrick Lamar sat down with radio host Howard Stern for a chat. Fresh out of an all-night recording studio session, Lamar dropped by the Stern Show for the first time ever to discuss his album DAMN., which was recently nominated for seven Grammys, growing up in Compton, and, most remarkably, a UFO sighting.
Lamar says he was six years old when he saw something in the sky that looked like “a dart go past.” “I’m going to stand my ground to this… Nobody believed me then and [nobody] believe me now. It’s just something I can’t really describe, because it just sounds like, ‘Okay, you just saw a dart go past.’ That shit don’t make sense… It was just a surreal moment.”
Stern’s co-host Robin Quivers then asked if Lamar was abducted by aliens, and he played along. “I probably did. That’s probably why I’m doing music right now. Who knows. They probably gave me the energy.”
Listen to the full interview here, where he also talks about collaborating with Prince, how his To Pimp a Butterfly song “Alright” has becoming a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement, and much more.
Revisit Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA.” below.
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Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
The newly-discovered Kepler-90i – a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days – was found using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence in which computers “learn.” In this case, computers learned to identify planets by finding in Kepler data instances where the telescope recorded signals from planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets.
NASA will host a Reddit Ask Me Anything at 3 p.m. EST today on this discovery.
“Just as we expected, there are exciting discoveries lurking in our archived Kepler data, waiting for the right tool or technology to unearth them,” said Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s Astrophysics Division in Washington. “This finding shows that our data will be a treasure trove available to innovative researchers for years to come.”
The discovery came about after researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg trained a computer to learn how to identify exoplanets in the light readings recorded by Kepler – the minuscule change in brightness captured when a planet passed in front of, or transited, a star. Inspired by the way neurons connect in the human brain, this artificial “neural network” sifted through Kepler data and found weak transit signals from a previously-missed eighth planet orbiting Kepler-90, in the constellation Draco.
While machine learning has previously been used in searches of the Kepler database, this research demonstrates that neural networks are a promising tool in finding some of the weakest signals of distant worlds.
Other planetary systems probably hold more promise for life than Kepler-90. About 30 percent larger than Earth, Kepler-90i is so close to its star that its average surface temperature is believed to exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit, on par with Mercury. Its outermost planet, Kepler-90h, orbits at a similar distance to its star as Earth does to the Sun.
“The Kepler-90 star system is like a mini version of our solar system. You have small planets inside and big planets outside, but everything is scrunched in much closer,” said Vanderburg, a NASA Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow and astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin
Shallue, a senior software engineer with Google’s research team Google AI, came up with the idea to apply a neural network to Kepler data. He became interested in exoplanet discovery after learning that astronomy, like other branches of science, is rapidly being inundated with data as the technology for data collection from space advances.
“In my spare time, I started googling for ‘finding exoplanets with large data sets’ and found out about the Kepler mission and the huge data set available,” said Shallue. "Machine learning really shines in situations where there is so much data that humans can't search it for themselves.”
Kepler’s four-year dataset consists of 35,000 possible planetary signals. Automated tests, and sometimes human eyes, are used to verify the most promising signals in the data. However, the weakest signals often are missed using these methods. Shallue and Vanderburg thought there could be more interesting exoplanet discoveries faintly lurking in the da
First, they trained the neural network to identify transiting exoplanets using a set of 15,000 previously-vetted signals from the Kepler exoplanet catalogue. In the test set, the neural network correctly identified true planets and false positives 96 percent of the time. Then, with the neural network having "learned" to detect the pattern of a transiting exoplanet, the researchers directed their model to search for weaker signals in 670 star systems that already had multiple known planets. Their assumption was that multiple-planet systems would be the best places to look for more exoplanets.
“We got lots of false positives of planets, but also potentially more real planets,” said Vanderburg. “It’s like sifting through rocks to find jewels. If you have a finer sieve then you will catch more rocks but you might catch more jewels, as well.”
Kepler-90i wasn’t the only jewel this neural network sifted out. In the Kepler-80 system, they found a sixth planet. This one, the Earth-sized Kepler-80g, and four of its neighboring planets form what is called a resonant chain – where planets are locked by their mutual gravity in a rhythmic orbital dance. The result is an extremely stable system, similar to the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system.
Their research paper reporting these findings has been accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal. Shallue and Vanderburg plan to apply their neural network to Kepler’s full set of more than 150,000 stars.
Kepler has produced an unprecedented data set for exoplanet hunting. After gazing at one patch of space for four years, the spacecraft now is operating on an extended mission and switches its field of view every 80 days.
“These results demonstrate the enduring value of Kepler’s mission,” said Jessie Dotson, Kepler’s project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. “New ways of looking at the data – such as this early-stage research to apply machine learning algorithms – promises to continue to yield significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting for people to find them.”
Ames manages the Kepler and K2 missions for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation operates the flight system with support from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. This work was performed through the Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowship Program executed by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute.
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Scientists To Check If Bizarre Interstellar Object Could Be An Alien Spacecraft
A cigar-shaped interstellar object that was spotted travelling through our solar system could in fact be an alien spacecraft, suggest scientists.
The astronomers from SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) are so serious about their theory that they will be pointing a giant telescope at the object to find out.
Known as “Oumuamua”, the object piqued the interests of scientists last month when it became clear that this was our first known example of an object arriving from interstellar space.
With its elongated dimensions the object is travelling at around 196,000mph and is expected to pass straight through the solar system without being drawn in by the Sun’s gravity.
What has piqued SETI’s interest of course is the shape of the object. While not unheard of, an asteroid of this shape is extremely rare. In addition to that SETI believes that its dimensions fit very neatly into what they believe extra-terrestrial vehicles could look like.
A statement from the 100 million dollar (£75 million) SETI project Breakthrough Listen, launched by Russian digital tech mogul Yuri Milner in 2015, said:
“Researchers working on long-distance space transportation have previously suggested that a cigar or needle shape is the most likely architecture for an interstellar spacecraft, since this would minimise friction and damage from interstellar gas and dust.”
To determine once and for all what this object actually is, the Breakthrough Listen team will point the giant Green Bank radio telescope at the object and listen our for the ‘sounds’ that it makes.
From 8pm UK time on Wednesday, December 13, the giant dish – the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world – will “listen” to the object across four radio frequency bands spanning one to 12 gigahertz.
Within less than a minute the telescope will be able to pick up any communications equipment even something with as little power as a mobile phone.
Lead scientist Dr Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley Seti Research Centre in California, said:
“Oumuamua’s presence within our solar system affords Breakthrough Listen an opportunity to reach unprecedented sensitivities to possible artificial transmitters and demonstrate our ability to track nearby, fast-moving objects.
SETI itself isn’t claiming that at all, they’re simply asking the question and then using their own equipment to find out for certain.
As their own statement says: “While a natural origin is more likely, there is currently no consensus on what that origin might have been, and Breakthrough Listen is well positioned to explore the possibility that Oumuamua could be an artefact.”
As renowned physicist Professor Brian Cox rightly points out on Twitter, there’s literally nothing to lose here and everything to gain.
“Although it’s highly unlikely (to say the least) that we’ll hear anything, we’d be crazy not to have a go. It’s not everyday that we get access to a visitor from interstellar space.”
One of SETI’s alternative theories is that rather than being an alien spacecraft the object could be the shard from a long-exploded planet from another solar system.
That interstellar asteroid could be a shard of a shredded planet - Institute scientist Matija Cuk thinks it may have been born when a planet about 10 times the size of Earth got too close to its small, dense star and was shredded to bits. Read more: https://buff.ly/2BCa2Tm
Even if it does turn out to be nothing more than a chunk of rock it’s arguably the most interesting chunk of rock you’ll see all year.
Not only is it the first example of an interstellar visitor in recorded history, but it’s an object that has been wandering through the galaxy for hundreds of thousands of years.
Preliminary calculations suggest that it may have come from the bright star Vega within the constellation of Lyra.
However, even if it been travelling at high-speed it would have taken 300,000 years for it to reach us. 300.000 years ago Vega was in a completely different place suggesting that Oumuamua may well have been wandering the universe for hundreds of millions of years before finally reaching a solar system, and in this case, ours.
Whatever it is, we should have our answer by the end of the week.
Scientists turn DNA into virtually any 3D shape imaginable
BY MIHAI ANDREI
Scientists have made a significant advancement in shaping DNA — they can now twist and turn the building blocks of life into just about any shape. In order to demonstrate their technique, they have shaped DNA into doughnuts, cubes, a teddy bear, and even the Mona Lisa.
New DNA origami techniques can build virus-size objects of virtually any shape.
Image credits: Wyss Institute.
Scientists have long desired to make shapes out of DNA. The field of research emerged in the 1980s, but things really took off in 2006, with the advent of a technique called DNA origami. As the name implies, it involves transforming DNA into a multitude of shapes, similar to the traditional Japanese technique of origami. The process starts with a long strand placed on a scaffold with the desired sequence of nucleotides, dubbed A, C, G, and T. Then, patches of the scaffold are matched with complementary strands of DNA called staples, which latch on to their desired target. In 2012, a different technique emerged — one which didn’t use scaffolds or large strands of DNA, but rather small strands that fit together like LEGO pieces.
Both techniques became wildly popular with various research groups. Scientists started to coat DNA objects with plastics, metals, and other materials to make electronic devices, electronics, and even computer components. But there was always a limitation: the size of conventional DNA objects has been limited to about 100 nanometers. There was just no way to make them bigger without becoming floppier or unstable in the process. Well, not anymore.
New DNA origami techniques can make far larger objects, such as this dodecahedron composed of 1.8 million DNA bases.
Image credits: K. Wagenbauer et al, Nature, Vol. 551, 2017.
Groups in Germany, Massachusetts, and California all report that they’ve made dramatic breakthroughs in DNA origami, creating rigid modules with preprogrammed shapes that can assemble with other copies to build specific shapes — and they have a variety of shapes to prove it.
A German team, led by Hendrik Dietz, a biophysicist at the Technical University of Munich, created a miniature doughnut about 300 nanometers across. A Massachusetts team led by Peng Yin, a systems biologist at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute in Boston, created complex structures with both blocks and holes. With this technique, they developed cut-out shapes like an hourglass and a teddy bear. The third group led by Lulu Qian, a biochemist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, developed origami-based pixels that appear in different shades when viewed through an atomic microscope. Taken together, these structures represent a new age for DNA origami.
Furthermore, it’s only a matter of time before things get even more complex. Yin’s group actually had to stop making more complex shape sbecause they ran out of money. Synthesizing the DNA comes at the exorbitant price of $100,000 per gram. However, Dietz and his collaborators believe they could dramatically lower the price by coaxing viruses to replicate the strands inside bacterial hosts.
“Now, there are so many ways to be creative with these tools,” Yin concludes.
The technique isn’t just about creating pretty DNA shapes. Someday, this approach could lead to a novel generation of electronics, photonics, nanoscale machines, and possibly disease detection, Robert F. Service writes for Science. The prospect of using DNA origami to detect cancer biomarkers and other biological targets could open exciting avenues for research and help revolutionize cancer detection.
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