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Farthest Solar System Body Ever Spotted – Second Discovered this Year
In the hunt for Planet nine AKA Planet X scientists are making some record breaking discoveries! via space.com: A newly discovered object is the most-distant body ever observed in the solar system – and the first object ever found orbiting at more than 100 times the distance from Earth to the sun. The discovery team nicknamed the object “Farout,” and … Continue reading
A Weird Anomaly Was Detected by NASA Spacecraft Days Ahead of Ultima Thule Flyby
Aliens? via Sputniknews: Just days ahead of an extra-planetary rendezvous, a NASA spacecraft has detected something very strange about its intended target. Only a week before its expected meeting with Kuiper Belt object (KBO) Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has not been able to detect the predictable and consistent variations in reflectivity — or ‘light … Continue reading
Hope for a Cure for AIDS as Scientists Succeed in Destroying HIV Infected Cells
Teams at the Institut Pasteur in Paris announced on Thursday they had succeeded in their work to destroy cells infected with HIV. Their work, published in the scientific journal Cell Metabolism, offers hope of a cure for AIDS patients. Up to now, there has been no cure for AIDS, but instead, the disease has been treated by antiretrovirals. These drugs … Continue reading
Reverse ‘Pinocchio’ – Lie Detector Analyzes Changes in Your Proboscis
It turns out that Pinocchio was wrong – your nose doesn’t grow when you lie, it actually gets colder and shrinks. First depicted in the 19th-century novel by Italian writer Carlo Collodi and then later in the famous animated Disney movie, the character of Pinocchio has long been associated with the concept of telling lies because his nose would grow … Continue reading
The ‘Christmas Comet’ Passes by for the Holidays
Every 5.4 years, the comet 46P/Wirtanen orbits the Sun, swinging through Earth’s skies on its way. This year, its visit is in December, and we’re going to be able to see it – in fact, it’s visible in the sky now if you have binoculars or a telescope. Usually, 46P/Wirtanen is too far away for us to see, so this is a … Continue reading
Mutant Superbugs Endanger Future Space Station Trips, and Maybe Life on Earth
Researchers found five strains of a multidrug-resistant bacterium similar to hospital-acquired infections on the International Space Station, raising concerns about the organisms’ health implications for future missions. Resembling a bacterium recently discovered infecting newborns and one elderly immunocompromised patient across three hospitals, the Enterobacter bugadensis strains found on the ISS were not infectious to humans in their current form. However, … Continue reading
US Within 10 Years of On-Going Manned Presence on the Moon Says NASA Head
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine says the U.S. is within 10 years of having a continuous manned presence on the moon, which will lay the groundwork for expanding space exploration to Mars. “Right now we’re building a space station, we call it ‘Gateway,’ that’s going to be in orbit around the moon – think of it as a reusable command module … Continue reading
Neurologists Findings Rewrite the Thalamus’s Role in Consciousness
With a finding that will “rewrite neuroanatomy textbooks,” University of Iowa neurologist Aaron Boes, MD, PhD, and his colleagues show that the thalamus is not a critical part of the brain pathway involved in keeping humans awake and conscious. The finding upends decades of medical dogma that placed the thalamus as a critical relay point for the signals originating in … Continue reading
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Probe Finds Evidence of Water on Asteroid Bennu
“…asteroids like Bennu may have played a part in delivering water – as well as the building blocks of life – to Earth in the distant past.” NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe seems to have hit the jackpot within a week of arriving at its destination. Measuring approximately 500 meters in diameter, Bennu has long been of interest to scientists because of … Continue reading
Sun-Dimming Experiment Aims to Mimic Volcanic Eruption to Reverse Global Warming
Wait, isn’t this what they’ve been doing with chemtrails for years now?? via independent uk: ‘If solar geoengineering is as good as what is shown in these models, it would be crazy not to take it seriously’ Scientists plan to mimic the effects of a massive volcanic eruption in a bid to tackle global warming. Plans to geoengineer the atmosphere … Continue reading
