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Earth’s Mantle Has an Oceanic Crust, New Study Finds

A new study offers a new perspective of Earth’s mantle, highlighting quite the discovery. Apparently, there are some “peanut chuncks” inside Earth’s middle layer right beneath East Asia. Researchers explained the whole process, and things are more complicated than previously…

June 14, 2021 · by Georgia Nica · 0

Battery Technology Fresh Breakthrough – An Atomic Analysis Of Lithium-Based Batteries

Batteries have progressed a lot since the Voltaic pile was invented. Though the technology kept evolving from lead-acid to lithium-ion, numerous challenges are still in the way of progress. These are some of the most prevalent problems – higher energy…

June 14, 2021 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

This Is How You Will Know That A Dangerous Asteroid Will Hit Our Planet

On April 13, 2029 (which happens to be on a Friday), something very peculiar will happen. A regular-sized asteroid, the 1,100-foot-wide Apophis, will pass so close to our planet that it will be visible in the sky from numerous places.…

June 14, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

The Worldwide Extinction Of Languages May Have An Unfortunate Impact On A Crucial Kind Of Human Knowledge

As the human languages are seeing a worldwide extinction phenomenon, a verbal encyclopedia of medical knowledge is in danger of being completely forgotten. Among 12,495 medicinal uses for plants in indigenous populations, a recent study has discovered more than 75%…

June 14, 2021 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Urgent Measures are Needed to Prevent the Extinction of Coral Reefs

Coral reefs have several huge roles in the environment: they protect wildlife, millions of people rely on them for food, and they clean the waters, just to say the least. According to a recent study of underwater ecosystems done by…

June 13, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

National Geographic Reveals the Earth’s 5th Official Ocean

Most of us learned in school that our planet has four oceans: the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, and the Arctic. But another one is officially added to the list by National Geographic, as a result of more and more…

June 13, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Newly Found Australian Dinosaur Species – Australotitan, 70 tons and up to 98 feet in size

Contributing to the list of recent dinosaur findings, a new species of dinosaur, approximately twice the size of the Hollywood sign, was uncovered, a new report suggests. The recently published report allowed scientists to confirm the discovery of new dinosaurian…

June 13, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

“Atmosphere!” – The Freshly Discovered, Peculiar Exoplanet!

Exoplanets are often intriguing – They sometimes provide glimpses into the Universe’s formation and often contain traces of a formidable past. However, a newly discovered exoplanet may have an exciting present for scientists – an atmosphere! Diana Dragomir, an exoplanetologist,…

June 12, 2021 · by Katherine Baldwin · 0

A Recent Space Discovery May Rewrite Cosmology, Scientists Believe!

A team of astronomers claims it found a “giant arc” of galaxies spanning over 3 billion light-years across. Though galaxy clusters aren’t rare at all, this particular one appears not to obey the cosmological principle – the consensus that matter…

June 12, 2021 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Scientists Find New Planet That Shows Traces Of Water Clouds!

A recently discovered exoplanet (outside of our solar system) may present water clouds, CNN reported. The exoplanet in cause is known as TOI-1231 b, and it can be found 90 light-years away from us. According to an observation of the…

June 12, 2021 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Huge Light Signal Leads to the Discovery of a Supermassive Black Hole

Once considered to be only cosmic monsters that you must avoid at all cost if you want to make it out alive, supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are now known to have a tremendous role in the existence of the galaxies…

June 11, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

‘Rosetta Stone’ Explosion on the Sun Grants New Insight on Solar Eruptions

Explosions from the Sun’s surface sending huge amounts of energy towards the planets remind us that our star can rapidly become our biggest foe instead of the faithful guardian of life that it usually is. Powerful solar storms are capable…

June 11, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

NASA Sent Water Bears Into Space, But Why?

A recent experiment across the ISS (International Space Station) is analyzing tardigrades, minuscule creatures also called water bears, due to the way they look under a microscope. Tardigrades got a reputation for having a massive threshold to extreme temperatures, both…

June 11, 2021 · by Anna Daniels · 0

The Mystery Of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

Over the past hundred years, quantum field theory turned out to be the most successful theory physics ever saw. It is an umbrella term that merges numerous quantum field theories – just like the word “shape” covers both a circle…

June 11, 2021 · by Asheley Rice · 0