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Wind-blown Dunes have been Discovered on Pluto

A recent paper led by Matthew Telfer, a lecturer in physical geography at the University of Plymouth, reveals a quite intriguing discovery on the dwarf planet Pluto. Methane ice dunes have been observed at the bottom of a major mountain…

June 2, 2018 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Scanning Probe Microscope, The Sharpest Object Ever Made, Can Be Used To Build Single Atoms

Have you ever asked yourself which is the sharpest object ever made? It might be a shocker for you but the sharpest object in the whole world is the scanning probe microscope which is as sharp as a hair shaft…

June 2, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Canadian Researchers Studied An Ancient Fish To Explain Why There Aren’t Huge Fish Nowadays

The largest animal on Earth of all time is the 30.5-meter long blue whale and the largest fish is the whale shark which reaches almost 12-meter long. However, besides sharks, the largest fish that can now be found is the…

June 1, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

NASA’s Dawn Probe Will Get Closer To The Surface Of Ceres Dwarf Planet, This Month

NASA’s Dawn probe is shifting to its lowermost orbit in its recorded history for a foreground scan of the single dwarf planet within our solar system, Ceres. At the beginning of this month, NASA’s Dawn will achieve its ultimate orbit…

June 1, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Self-Adaptive Brain Implant Might Reduce Parkinson’s Disease Motor Symptoms

Deep brain stimulation has been used for decades to relieve the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and is experiencing a new breakthrough. Researchers have just developed a self-adaptive brain implant capable of providing finer and therefore more efficient electrical impulses.…

May 31, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Ancient Reptile Megachirella, Found 20 Years Ago, Recently Unveiled As The Ancestor Of All Lizards

Researchers reported yesterday that they had found the most ancient reptile ever discovered, a tiny lizard that inhabited the Earths about 240 million years ago when our planet contained a single continent and the dinosaurs were “newcomers”. Fossilized skeleton scanning…

May 31, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Life On Earth Returned Faster Than Believed After Chicxulub Asteroid Impact That Killed The Dinosaurs

Rains of incandescent rocks, heat waves of up to 80 degrees Celsius, spontaneous fires, and almost two years of darkness, among other disturbances, are the main effects of the collision with the 10-km Chicxulub asteroid which unleashed the hell on…

May 31, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Mars Will Get Closer To Earth As Never Before In The Last 15 Years

To date, in 2018, Mars has been moving over the horizon a little sooner and a little nearer to the Earth. By the end of July, the Red Planet will be closer to us like never before since 2003. The…

May 31, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Explained How A Space Toilet Works

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson talked about how urine and feces are collected in a space toilet. In short, the pee is sucked to be transformed into drinking water and the poop must be collected by hand. Many people have asked…

May 30, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Genetic Diversity Collapse In Y-Chromosomes In Ancient Humans Linked To Social Changes And Wars

Beginning 7,000 years ago, a bizarre thing has occurred in humans. Apparently, as new studies report, for the next 2,000 years, ancient humans’ genetic diversity has crumbled, especially the Y chromosomes diversity. Both anthropologists and biologists were baffled by this…

May 30, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Time Travel Is Happening – Scientists Developed The First Time Machine

Time travel is already taking place but not in the manner presented in the so many sci-fi books or movies that you might have watched over the time. As a matter of fact, a so-called time machine has been constructed but,…

May 30, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Six Dark Galaxies Have Been Identified By A Swiss Team Of Astronomers

Almost every person in the world would say that a galaxy can’t be a galaxy without possessing billions of stars. Over the time, astronomers have discovered either bigger galaxies with hundreds of billions of stars or smaller galaxies with only…

May 29, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Stratospheric Life On Earth Encourages The Search For Extraterrestrial Life On Exoplanets

The existence of microbial life within the Earth’s stratosphere broadens the potential for stratospheric extraterrestrial life on exoplanets. At least, this is the outcome of a recent research that synthesizes what we currently know regarding the stratospheric life and which has…

May 29, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Artificial Intelligence That Detects Skin Cancer Has Been Developed And Performs Almost Flawlessly

A team of American, German, and French scientists has created an artificial intelligence that detects skin cancer based on imaging of the skin. According to the results of the experiment, this computer is more accurate than dermatologists. The scientists trained…

May 29, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Fossilized Dandruff Has Been Found In Ancient Feathered Dinosaurs Remains

The oldest fossilized dandruff has just been detected in a Microraptor, a species of tiny feathered dinosaurs that walked the Earth about 125 million years ago. Also, the studies on a couple of other ancient feathered dinosaurs, Beipiaosaurus and Sinornithosaurus,…

May 28, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0