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In a new research paper, psychologists have claimed that psychological research may not have replication crisis at all. In scientific process, replication or repeating experiments for the validation of actual study results is a significant factor. Efforts to boost the reproducibility of science play a very important part in the correct knowledge flow.

Published on August 28 last year in the journal Science, Open Science Collaboration (OSC) paper left the psychology community in shock, after it concluded that reproducibility of psychological research was surprisingly low.

In the next 10 years, we could witness amazing changes in technology and robotic skin that can change color to showcase different signals, could be one of those. The octopus-inspired skin doesn’t just bend and stretch, but also changes colors and probably give information with different types of views and colors.

In a new study that appeared on Thursday in Science, Cornell researchers disclosed that they have come up with a stretchable, Octopus-inspired robotic skin that is not just smooth, flexible but can also show colors on getting bend or stretched. It’s noteworthy that the robotic skin is strong and can stretch to roughly six times its actual size.

Scientists are looking forward to drill into an impact crater, containing the leftovers of a killer asteroid off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

An asteroid stuck at the Chicxulub crater 66 million years ago, killing the dinosaurs and most of the life forms on Earth, as per scientific community. Scientists are hopeful that by drilling into the crater sediments, they can possibly get some information regarding how life there bounced back post the devastating impact.

On Thursday, Research Professor Sean Gulick of University of Texas Institute for Geophysics told CNN, “You can assume that at ground zero of this impact we are dealing with a sterile ocean, and over time life renewed itself. We might learn something for the future”.

MIT researchers have come up with a new system that may make encryption techniques, which are presently in use to keep computer data safe, a thing of past. The research team said it has created a new quantum computer with the help of just five atoms. The computer is the first one ever to realize a potential mathematical technique that was invented over a couple of decades back.

With the help of laser pulses, they carried out Shor’s algorithm to determine the prime factors of the number fifteen, which are five and three. According to scientists, the process can be increased to factor bigger numbers.

This week, observers in parts of Southeast Asia will be able to witness a celestial spectacle, a total eclipse of the sun. The occurrence of the total solar eclipse can be witnessed in many parts of Southeast Asia on Wednesday. Beginning over the Indian Ocean and thereafter darkening the parts of Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and other islands prior to disappearing in the Pacific Ocean northeast of Hawaii, people will be able to witness solar eclipse.

The natives in many parts of the world, including China, Japan, northern Australia, Hawaii and Alaska, will get to see a partial eclipse.

NASA has blamed severe drought, which can be termed as the worst in last 900 years, for causing the extremely complicated disorders in the Middle East and disruptions of Syria and Iraq. According to a research conducted by NASA, the eastern Mediterranean Levant region, consisting Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Turkey, has been under severe drought conditions since 1998.