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Study Suggests Chocolate Lowers Risk of Heart Arrhythmia and Disease, SWEET!
As if I needed more reasons to devour this stuff 🙂 Sputniknews reports: It tastes great, it lowers blood pressure, it helps you stay alert, it might lower cholesterol and sharpen your memory. And, if a new study from Danish researchers is to believed, regular consumption of it can help ward off heart failure, strokes, dementia and other health problems. … Continue reading
‘Fusion Power Grid’ May Be Possible by 2030 Says Scientist
MIT scientist Earl Marmar believes that we could all be benefiting from nuclear fusion energy before too long. Marmar, who heads up MIT’s Alcator C-Mod tokamak fusion project, maintains that there should be no obstacle in achieving this goal so long as scientists remain dedicated to the task. Often seen as the Holy Grail of power generation, nuclear fusion is … Continue reading
NASA Releases SPECTACULAR Pluto Flyover Video
In the past I’ve found catchy NASA video headlines like “amazing flyover” etc. only to be disappointed with the videos but this one is FANTASTIC! It is short but a MUST WATCH in my humble opinion. Now that’s more like it NASA 🙂 Would love to see this type of flyover done for all the planets. via unexplained-mysteries: What would … Continue reading
Dying May Not Be As Awful An Experience As You Imagine It
Does the very idea of death worry and frighten you? There may be reassurance from a new study that finds those fears might be exaggerated. In fact, the research shows, death is often described as a peaceful, “unexpectedly positive” experience by those who approach it. Death is one of life’s guarantees, yet it’s something people often avoid talking about, according … Continue reading
Cancer In The UK; Cancer Now More Common Than Getting Married or Having a First Baby
You’re always being told how cancer rates are declining, and the severity of global cancer is always being downplayed… telegraph.co.uk reports: Developing cancer is now more common than getting married or having a first baby, research suggests. Analysis by Macmillan Cancer Support shows there were 361,216 cancers diagnosed in 2014 in the UK, the most recent figures available, compared to … Continue reading
NASA Unveils Its Plan to Test Technique For Defending Earth Against Asteroids
Humanity could face one less doomsday scenario if NASA has its way. On Friday, the space agency announced plans to redirect the course of a small asteroid approaching Earth, as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), according to a NASA press release. The release notes that asteroids hit Earth nearly every day, but most are small enough to … Continue reading
Scientists At Canadian University Re-create An Extinct Virus
I file this under the “what could possibly go wrong here?” folder. Scientific American reports: The feat has triggered new warnings about controversial research. For years there have been warnings that advances in science could make it possible to cook up killer diseases in laboratories and unleash them on the world. This week came news that scientists at the University … Continue reading
Solar Minimum: Our Sun is Getting Quieter, And Displaying Some Weird Behavior
The sun is about to enter a period of quiet, known as a solar minimum. This cycle happens every 11 years and is characterized of decreased activity—when sunspots fade away and produce fewer solar flares. With this latest period of inactivity approaching, scientists have been monitoring the sun to better understand some of the unusual activity observed over recent years. … Continue reading
Has Evidence of Parallel Universes Been Found?
They call it the multiverse. It’s a cosmos in which there are multiple universes. And by multiple, I mean an infinite number. These uncountable realms sit side by side in higher dimensions that our senses are incapable of perceiving directly. Yet increasingly astronomers and cosmologists seem to be invoking the multiverse to explain puzzling observations. The stakes are high. Each … Continue reading
Paypal Founder Contributing To Extinct Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Project
Paypal founder Peter Thiel is participating in an effort that could get the now extinct woolly mammoth to walk back on Earth by 2027, according to a new book titled “Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive one of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures” by Ben Mezrich. The donation was made in 2015 when the tech luminary gave … Continue reading
