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Vicious Disease Spreading Tick Species Has Invaded US, CDC Warns
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning about a new tick species in the U.S. that it says is capable of spreading diseases dangerous to humans and other animals. A CDC weekly report released Thursday states that the Asian longhorned tick, an arachnid native to Korea and other parts of east Asia, has been found in several … Continue reading
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Weird, Shiny Object on Red Planet
NASA’s Curiosity team posted an update to its mission blog on Wednesday with a lovely look at a shiny lump sitting on the planet’s surface. NASA’s Curiosity rover made the rather curious discovery on Mars. It’s bright, shiny, mysterious, and might (or might not) be a meteorite. Writing on the Curiosity team’s blog on Wednesday, Dr. Susanne P. Schwenzer referred … Continue reading
NASA’s InSight Craft Performs Nail-Biting Descent on Mars
Everything you would want to know about NASA’s InSight craft’s landing on Mars. Watch this thorough, informative and interesting video which includes representational footage of the the craft landing on the red planet. via TODAY (YouTube) NASA celebrated another historic touchdown on Mars when the agency’s InSight lander successfully arrived after a heart-pounding descent. The $814 million mission marks the … Continue reading
Mini Brain Grown in Lab Produces ‘Human-Like’ Brain Waves
Neuroscientists from the University of California San Diego observed spontaneous electrical activity that resembles human brain waves in a lab-grown “mini-brain” for the first time. They hope this breakthrough will allow researchers to study the early stages of brain disorders like epilepsy in infants, which is usually difficult or impossible due to the difficulty of analyzing a fetus in utero. … Continue reading
Scientists’ Come Up With New Strategy for Fight Global Warming; Dim the Sun
Scientists have come up with a new and ingenious way of fighting global warming: use chemicals to blot out the sun. Whether we’ll then have to fight (and do everything else) in the shade, the research doesn’t quite spell out. Since the world can’t seen to agree on reducing CO2 emissions, why not tackle the problem from the other end, … Continue reading
First Ever Gene Edited Babies Born in China
Scientists hoping to make children immune to HIV have produced the first ever genetically edited babies. According to reports, an HIV-positive woman in China has given birth to two baby girls who had undergone gene editing in an effort to prevent them from contracting the disease. The experiment, which involved using the CRISPR gene editing technique, has yet to be … Continue reading
Large Asteroid 2018 LF16 Could Slam Into Earth in 2023 – NASA
An asteroid that is twice the size of Big Ben could smash into Earth in just five years, NASA has warned. The asteroid, dubbed 2018 LF16, is predicted to potentially impact our planet on August 8, 2023. Thankfully, the chances of this are very low, with NASA predicted a 99.9999967 per cent chance of a miss. Asteroid 2018 LF16 is … Continue reading
Previously Unknown Part of the Human Brain Discovered; May be Unique to Humans
There is no doubt many things left to be discovered about humans and other animals, if only our focus was more on discovery instead of personal greed. via Earth-chronicles: Neuroscientists, carefully studying the human brain while working on a new neuroanatomical atlas, have discovered a previously unknown area, which may be only in humans. A new site was discovered by … Continue reading
Astronomers Find Ghost Galaxy Lurking on Edge of Milky Way
But is it really a galaxy? via Sputniknews: A team of astronomers using the Gaia satellite have found a “ghost” galaxy haunting the outer edges of our own. The bizarre object is three times bigger but 10,000 times fainter than the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which also orbits the Milky Way. The dwarf galaxy identified as Antlia 2 evaded scientists … Continue reading
Another Alien Megastructure? Astronomers Seek Source of Old Star’s Strange Behavior
An old star in the inner Milky Way has sparked a celestial investigation after baffled astronomers noted that something seems to be blocking it from our sight. Possible explanations range from alien megastructures to space dust. The strange flickering of star VVV-WIT-07 has been confounding scientists since it was first spotted by a team of astronomers in 2012. The researchers … Continue reading
