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Mysterious Syndrome Imparing Astronauts’ Eyesight on Long Trips
In 2005, astronaut John Phillips took a break from his work on the International Space Station and looked out the window at Earth. He was about halfway through a mission that had begun in April and would end in October. When he gazed down at the planet, the Earth was blurry. He couldn’t focus on it clearly. That was strange-he’d … Continue reading
NASA Discovers Giant Hole Growing on the Sun’s Surface (VIDEO)
A coronal hole appears on the sun’s corona, or atmosphere, when the sun’s magnetic field opens and allows heat from the corona to be expelled. The lower temperature of these areas causes them to appear darker than the rest of the sun’s surface. They also have lower energy and gas levels, adding to its dark appearance. While this sounds pretty … Continue reading
Life on Mars STILL Exists Beneath the Surface, Claims Top NASA Scientist
HIDDEN lakes on Mars are likely to contain some form of life, a leading expert has claimed. Beneath the frozen deserts of the Red Planet are likely to be pools of water which are home to life, the scientist who first detected liquid water on Mars has claimed. Alfred McEwen, professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona, says … Continue reading
10 Mind-Blowing Facts About the CERN Large Collider You Need to Know
Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) smashes together sub-atomic particles at nearly the speed of light, an unprecedented experiment that has some of the leading voices in the world of science – and religion – sounding the alarm on the risks involved. CERN is perhaps most famous for its discovery in 2012 of the elusive Higgs Boson [named after British physicist … Continue reading
Scientists Remove HIV From A Human Immune Cell Using A New Gene-Editing Technique
Using the much-touted CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing method, scientists have demonstrated how they can edit HIV out of human immune cell DNA, and in doing so, can prevent the reinfection of unedited cells too. If you haven’t heard of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique before, get ready to hear a whole lot more about it in 2016, because it’s set to revolutionise … Continue reading
700yrs to Orbit Sun: New Dwarf Planet Spotted Beyond Neptune & Pluto
A team of astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet in our solar system. Dubbed 2015 RR245, it is 120 times farther from the Sun than the Earth at its farthest orbital point. “The icy worlds beyond Neptune trace how the giant planets formed and then moved out from the Sun. They let us piece together the history of our … Continue reading
The Code that Took Astronauts to the Moon is Now Freely Available Online – Complete with ’60s Easter Eggs.
The programming code that controlled the flight software for Apollo 11 has been uploaded to the popular code sharing website GitHub for the first time. Not only does the uploaded code give current programmers a look into the past, it is also filled with pop culture references from the mid-1960s, making it somewhat of a time capsule. The code was … Continue reading
Did Supernova Explosion Contribute to Earth Mass Extinction?
A faraway supernova explosion may have contributed to a minor mass extinction here on Earth 2.59 million years ago, a new study suggests. Fast-moving, charged particles called cosmic rays that were blasted out by asupernova may have played a role in the climatic changes that apparently led to a die-off at the end of the Pliocene epoch and the start … Continue reading
Astronomers Just Discovered a Morse Code Message in the Dunes of Mars
NASA has spotted a series of strange, dark dunes on Mars that look uncannily like the dots and dashes that make up Morse code. This isn’t the first time researchers have spotted this pattern in the sands of Mars, but thanks to its unique topography, this dune field – just south of the planet’s north pole – shows them in … Continue reading
Functioning Artificial ‘Brain’ Created From Circuitry
A team of German scientists has created a circuit that mimics the functions of the human brain without the use of computer processors. The team’s highly technical research has been published in Applied Physics Letters. The team created a circuit that features two oscillators which create periodic electrical impulses. Between the two oscillators is a network of special circuitry made … Continue reading
