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Could an Advanced Civilization Survive Climate Change?

Since the Earth is struggling with a lot of imminent threats such as deforestation, climate change and the loss of biodiversity, coming up with a way in which civilization can be preserved has become a top priority. This is why…

June 9, 2018 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Permian Protomammals Ancient Saber-Toothed Predators Reveal More About Mammals’ Evolution

Scientists from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, in Raleigh, USA, and the Vyatka Paleontological Museum, in Kirov, Russia, have presented the results of their study on the fossils belonging to two new Permian protomammals species, some ancient saber-toothed…

June 8, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

NASA’s Juno Jupiter Mission Extended Until July 2021

NASA’s Juno probe was launched in 2011 with the mission to study Jupiter’s atmosphere. The probe entered in the orbit of the giant gaseous planet in our solar system in July 2016 and since then has revealed spectacular information about…

June 8, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Lunar Mystery Solved By Scientists With The Help Of The Missing Apollo Missions Tapes

Back in the 1970s, during the Apollo missions, the NASA researchers observed something puzzling. Namely, the Moon’s surface was warmer than usual. In 2010, a team of scientists started to examine why was that happening back then. Now, 8 years…

June 8, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

South African Primitive Amphibians Fossils Might Rewrite The Early History Of Life On Land

At the Waterloo Farm, near Grahamstown, in South Africa, researchers discovered fossilized remains of two primitive amphibians, Tutusius umlambo and Umzantsia amazana, which inhabited the Devonian Period 360 million years ago. What makes this an interesting discovery is that, during the Devonian Period,…

June 8, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Life On Mars: NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Found Organic Matter On Mars

A few days ago we were telling you that NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover made some groundbreaking discovery on Mars and NASA will present the news during a press conference. Now, that moment has come and NASA announced the discovery of…

June 8, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Two Massive Stars Were Observed Orbiting Near The Supermassive Black Hole In The Center Of The Milky Way

A group of astronomers has found several foreign objects in the center of our galaxy that looked like gas clouds but turned out to be massive stars orbiting near the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way,…

June 7, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Alpha Centauri Stars Can Sustain Life, A New Study Revealed

The Alpha Centauri stars system is the closest one to Earth and, therefore, many studies have been conducted on this system. Now, a recent study came up with a new astonishing conclusion that Alpha Centauri stars can sustain life on…

June 7, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Nanorobots Based On DNA Origami Technique Managed To Successfully Locate And Destroy Tumors In Lab Tests

It seems incredible but nanotechnology is evolving fast to truly amazing levels that could only be imagined as fantasy just 10 or 20 years ago. As cool as it sounds it’s not quite a surprise that the scientists developed the first…

June 7, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

A 30,000-Year-Old Jawbone Found In Niah Cave, Southeast Asia, Revealed Ancient Humans’ Dietary Habits

The 30,000-year-old jawbone found in Niah Cave belonged to a primitive man who lived in the rainforests of Southeast Asia during Late Pleistocene contains important information about the dietary habits of the ancient humans. According to a study, the fossils revealed that…

June 7, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Lightning On Jupiter Is Stunningly Similar To The Lightning Storms On Earth

According to two new studies, the Jupiter’s lightning storms are occurring more often that priorly estimated and they are much more similar to lightning storms on Earth than scientists believed before. The first observations of lightning on Jupiter were made…

June 7, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

SpaceX First Space Tourist Flight Around The Moon, Scheduled For This Year, Might Happen In 2019

Last year, in February, Elon Musk, the SpaceX’s founder and CEO, has made the ambitious statement that his company will launch the first space tourist flight around the Moon in 2018 with SpaceX Dragon capsule and Falcon Heavy rocket. However,…

June 6, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Three Astronauts, An American, A Russian, And A German, Took Off For ISS Aboard Soyuz MS-09 Rocket

A Russian, an American, and a German are the three astronauts who took off today from the steppes of Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to join the International Space Station (ISS). The launch of the MS-09 rocket, with Russian Sergei…

June 6, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Antimatter, Reversed To Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, Recorded For The First In Hurricane Patricia

In 2015, Hurricane Patricia struck the west coast of Mexico and became the most severe hurricane ever seen in the region. Even more, the scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz, noticed, for the first time ever, that, in…

June 6, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Globular Clusters Are 4 Billion Years Younger, According To Recent Binary Stars Study, And Shed New Light On Galactic Formation

The globular clusters might be up to 4 billion years younger than earlier anticipated, according to a new study carried out by the researchers from the University of Warwick, reported by ScienceDaily. The new discovery, which has been made by…

June 6, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0