Oxygen Found in Comet’s Atmosphere; Making Robots Walk Like Humans
Rosetta’s NavCaM snapped this shot of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 20, 2014 ((C) ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0) Scientists Find Oxygen in Comet’s Atmosphere A couple of days ago...
View ArticleNew Tool to Find ET; Detecting Spoiled Meat; Usernames Reveal Personality
Aliens? (Interdimensional Guardians/Creative Commons) NASA Working On a New Tool to Search for ET NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California is developing what they’re calling a...
View ArticleFast Radio Burst Source Found; High Tech Fishing; Stress and Heart Health
The Parkes 64m Radio Telescope in Australia (Binarysequence/Wikimedia Commons) Astronomers Locate Source of a Fast Radio Burst Nearly a decade ago a pair of astronomers were going through some...
View ArticleBlack Hole Mass Measured; Ice Sheets on Mars; Saliva Diagnoses Disease
Combined image of NGC 1332 shows the central disk of gas surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. (UC Irvine) ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ), NASA/ESA Hubble; Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy...
View ArticleDark Matter Galaxy; Making Bland Tasty; Ouchless Insulin
The dark galaxy Dragonfly 44. The image on the left is a wide view of the galaxy and a close-up on the right. The massive galaxy consists almost entirely of Dark Matter. (Pieter Van Dokkum, Roberto...
View ArticleRadioactive Material Found in Fracking Waste; Searching Space for H20
Solid waste from horizontal gas wells contains radioactive material that ends up in landfills. (American Chemical Society) Radioactive Isotopes Found in Fracking Waste US oil and natural gas...
View ArticleResearchers Develop Environmentally Friendly Method To Melt Snow Quickly
Businesses and local governments located in areas where it snows a lot must make sure that the white stuff is kept clear from their streets, sidewalks and parking lots. The problem, in some cases, is...
View ArticleDrinking Wine Could Aid Oral Health
Recent reports have suggested that drinking a glass of wine may be beneficial to your health. Researchers have found that wine has a concentration of a type of antioxidant called polyphenols that can...
View ArticleNew Device Will Tell You if Your Food is Safe to Eat
Have you ever wanted some way to tell whether meat and other foods are safe to consume? A group of mechanical, chemical engineers and biochemists at Canada’s McMaster University may have come up with...
View ArticleSunlight Can Hinder Oil Spill Cleanup Efforts
A 2003 report by the National Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences estimated that more than 1.3 million metric tons of petroleum make it into the sea each year. A C-130 Hercules from...
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