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Floodwater Might Endanger The Great Barrier Reef

Northern Australia is experiencing massive rainfall and, consequently, unimaginable floodwater. Recent floods in northern Australia are poring in the ocean upon the Great Barrier Reef, endangering the corals of the famous reef, as per a new study the scientists released today.…

February 15, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Canadian Space Agency Plans To Research Medicines On Mars

Ex-astronaut Dave Williams, who spent 28 days in space over two missions, is the next target for Canadian Space Agency who wants to find out how to fly humans to Mars and back without they developing health issues. But there’s more,…

February 15, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

NASA’s InSight Gets Ready To Measure The Temperature of Mars

NASA’s InSight rover installed its seismometer recently. Now, the lander deployed a second instrument, the so-called Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3), with which the probe will measure the temperature of Mars. According to NASA, InSight placed the HP3…

February 14, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Scientists Sequenced The Human Immune System For The First Time In History

For the first time in history, the scientists from the Human Vaccines Project, headed by Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, sequenced the human immune system which is by billions of time more extensive than the human genome. More…

February 14, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

This 2-Billion-Year Old Fossils Might Belong To The First Moving Organisms On Earth

Billions of years ago, the organisms that populated the Earth were mostly bacteria and other microorganisms. Until now, the oldest moving creature that the scientists found dated about 570 million years. Now, the researchers found 2-billion-year old fossils, and they…

February 13, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Air Pollution Linked To Higher Stroke Risks In The US, A Study Revealed

The World Health Organization (WHO) has already announced that low air quality can cause a lot of health issues, including respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Southeast Asia is the most exposed region in the world to pollutants, but the air is…

February 13, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Scientists Shed More Light On The Brain Evolution In Humans

Even though humans are genetically similar to chimpanzees and bonobos, there are evident differences regarding behavior and cognitive functions. What makes us human and how our brains evolved to rich to this point? To these questions, among others, the researchers…

February 13, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

The Climate Change has a Significant Influence Over your City

The climate change is being followed by a central contradiction that consists of not being that visible to the average human even though it is the most critical issue that humanity has ever faced. You may not realize that the…

February 13, 2019 · by Anna Daniels · 0

New Images Reveal That The Ultima Thule Is Flat Like A Pancake

The New Horizons spacecraft flew close to the Ultima Thule on January 1 and it managed to take some pictures that revealed something interesting. The scientists were baffled when they realised that the Ultima Thule is in fact flat, resembling…

February 13, 2019 · by Asheley Rice · 0

The Spinal Cord Controls More Complex Functions Than Scientists Knew, A New Study Showed

We always think that the brain is the control center for everything else in our bodies, but it seems that the spinal cord also plays a very significant role. According to a new study, the spinal cord can process and…

February 12, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

“Ghost” In Human Genome Spotted By Artificial Intelligence – An Unknown Ancient Human Ancestor

While scientists don’t know much about the recently spotted ancient human ancestor, the researchers know that it was a female that lived about 50,000 years ago. But she is unique for the human life evolution on the Earth, as she…

February 11, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Scientists Confirm a Planet-Formation Theory

The mysteries of planet formation have fascinated generations of scientists. In the last decades, a theory that aimed to explain the process became popular among many researchers. The theory seemed to be highly probable, but the researchers were unable to…

February 11, 2019 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Ultima Thule Model Redrawn: The Massive Space Rock Resembles A Pancake

MU69, also known as Ultima Thule is the most distant world explored by us. The New Horizons spacecraft has the mission to obtain more information about it, and this is exactly what it managed to do. This time we finally…

February 10, 2019 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Magnetic Pole Shift Is Happening As Earth’s North Pole Is Moving To Russia

According to recent studies, the North magnetic pole is drifting from the Canadian Arctic region to Siberia, Russia. Why is that happening is not yet known by scientists, even though they updated the magnetosphere model according to the new modifications.…

February 9, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

The Future Mars Mission Has to Conquer Another Obstacle – The Mental Health Of Astronauts

Scientists who work on the future mission to the Red Planet have to pass more than the scientifical barriers that such a journey would face. More specifically, they also have to come up with reliable solutions to maintain the mental…

February 8, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0