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You don’t have to be a science expert to understand that black holes more often pull things in rather than spit them out. However, NASA has recently discovered something strange around the supermassive black hole Markarian 335. Two space telescopes – NASA’s Explorer missions Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, witnessed a black hole’s corona being [...]
It marks the first time a plant has been grown on the Moon. China made history by landing its Chang’e-4 spacecraft on the Moon’s far side. The mission was also the first to experiment with growing plants on the Moon, and it brought a mini-biosphere called the Lunar Micro Ecosystem to the lunar surface (LME). Except for the [...]
With bugs, algae, and other resource-efficient foods we could feed one million people on Mars within a century of arriving there. Scientists even invented a martian diet. In the science fiction novel and film The Martian, a stranded astronaut survives for more than 500 days on Mars by growing potatoes. A permanent human settlement on Mars [...]
For the first time, astronomers have discovered evidence for a giant planet orbiting a tiny, dead white dwarf star. And, surprisingly, the Neptune-sized planet is more than four times the diameter of the Earth-sized star it orbits. “This star has a planet that we can’t see directly,” study author Boris Gänsicke from the University of [...]
Alongside advances in space exploration, we’ve recently seen much time and money invested into technologies that could allow effective space resource utilization. And at the forefront of these efforts has been a laser-sharp focus on finding the best way to produce oxygen on the Moon. In October, the Australian Space Agency and NASA signed a deal to send an Australian-made [...]
Hundreds of large flashes have been captured on camera reflecting off our planet, and they’ve helped NASA solve a mystery that stumped the likes of Carl Sagan more than two decades ago. These flashes are so bright that they can be seen from space, and they were thought to be caused by sunlight reflecting off [...]
If you’re swimming in a large volume of water, i’s difficult to judge the properties of distant floating objects with exacting precision, and the same is true for our star system as it swirls around the galaxy. This is perhaps why scientists have just discovered a new structure encompassing a long curl of gas so [...]
Aluminum is a neurotoxin, so it affects the nervous system and the brain. According to experts, it plays a vital role in Alzheimer’s disease. However, there are numerous natural plant extracts and nutrients which can lower or prevent aluminum toxicity in the brain and thus avoid cognitive disorders, like memory loss. Dr. Walter Lukiw, Ph.D., [...]
A stroke can have life-threatening consequences just like a heart attack. However, there are some early signs of a stroke that start showing up as early as a month before it actually happens. Here are seven such symptoms—knowing them might save someone’s life. Strokes happen when a blood vessel transporting oxygen to the brain bursts or gets [...]
Often times when measuring heart health, we are encouraged to seek a medical professional and perform expensive tests. However, a new study highlighted by the European Society of Cardiology has found a simple and inexpensive way to assess heart health (1). Dr. Jesus Peteiro from the University Hospital A Coruna, Spain states that if it [...]
