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Pluto Might Be A Huge Comet, According To A Recent Study

Since Pluto was deprived of its planetary status, a persistent issue has remained, namely, what is Pluto, if it is not a planet. Could it be a dwarf planet or a huge space rock captured by our Sun’s gravitational force?…

May 24, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Got A New Drilling Method And Will Restart Drilling Rocks On Mars This Friday

NASA’s Mars Curiosity is experimenting with an improvised new drilling method for the first time with the goal of transforming Mars subsoil samples in a powdery matter in the expectation of better comprehending the Mars subsoil. Following a year-long break…

May 24, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Giant Flatworms Of Up To 40 Centimeters In Length Invaded France

The problem of invasive species reaches almost every corner of the globe and every plant and animal genus, including worms. In the last years, many scientific teams around the world studied invasive species of worms. Despite being almost unnoticed by…

May 23, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Chronic Lymphatic Leukemia Genome Has Been Deciphered By The Scientists

51 researchers from 23 centers in 6 countries have deciphered how the complete chronic lymphatic leukemia genome functions. Chronic lymphatic leukemia is the most common type of leukemia and this study paves the roads to developing new treatments for this…

May 23, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

SpaceX Falcon 9 Has Successfully Deployed 5 Iridium Satellites And The NASA GRACE-FO Mission, Today, May 23rd

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off successfully and deployed today 5 Iridium satellites and the two NASA satellites whose mission will be to measure, with unprecedented precision, changes in the water supply on Earth, over the next five years, as…

May 23, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

‘Alien’ Asteroid 2015 BZ509 Is Unique In Our Solar System As It Orbits The Sun Backward

A team of astronomers has located an ‘alien’ asteroid that originated from another solar system. The 2015 BZ509 asteroid travels close to Jupiter’s orbit and is unique in our solar system as it orbits the sun backward, contrary to the…

May 22, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Mediterranean Diet Reduces The Health Damage Of Air Pollution

Air pollution, beyond its negative effects on the environment and the economy, has harmful and lethal consequences for health. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 8 million people die due to air pollution each year. However, a diet…

May 22, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Humans Account For Only 0.01% Of All Life On Earth But Reduced Other Species Proliferation

The most in-depth study conducted on the mass of all living beings on Earth has shown that humans only represent about 0.01 percent of all life on Earth but regardless of our physical insignificance in relation to the overcrowded mass…

May 22, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Genetic Diversity Is Minimal, At Only 0.1%, In Humans And 90% Of Animal Species, As Well

A study on the genomes of more than 100,000 animal species revealed that among humans, the genetic diversity is minimal, at only 0.1%. The study, entitled “Why should the mitochondrion define species?”, was published in the scientific review “Human Evolution”.…

May 22, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Galactic Radiations Represent The Biggest Challenge When Traveling To Mars, An Ex-Russian Astronaut Considers

The former Russian astronaut Sergey Krikaliov explained that the protection against galactic radiations is the biggest challenge in the future mission that will involve men traveling to Mars. Galactic radiations are the biggest challenge to conquer before traveling to Mars…

May 22, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

New Types Of Neurons Have Been Found During A Study That Involved 250K Video Game Players

With the help of a quarter of a million video game players, researchers from the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) have created detailed maps containing more than 1,000 neurons. This mapping led scientists to discover new types of neurons. Sebastian Seung,…

May 21, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Secret To Happiness Is Revealed By A Study Conducted By Harvard During The Last 80 Years

A stressful work routine, unpaid according to all the work done and leading to bad habits of life. This picture is the one faced every day by millions of workers around the world who, like everyone else, wonder what the…

May 21, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Cortical Gray Matter And Brain Health, In General, Are Linked To The Socioeconomic Position, A Study Revealed

A team of scientists from the University of Texas (USA) has shown that a person’s socioeconomic position is related to how is his/her brain functioning. Also, they discovered that a person’s brain anatomy is also influencing that person’s position in…

May 21, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis Method By Scanning Patients’ Retinas Has Been Discovered

The accumulation of a protein known as alpha-synuclein in the retina is a good biomarker that could help detect Parkinson’s disease, as well as the degree of severity of the disease, according to research involving scientists from the United States…

May 21, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Cold Atom Laboratory Is NASA’s Experiment To Create The Lowest Temperature In The Whole Universe

Cold Atom Laboratory is the name of a new NASA scientific project, one of the most ambitious undertaken by the US space agency. The project’s objective is quite clear, namely, to artificially create in space the coldest point of the known…

May 21, 2018 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0