Leading Astronomer Says “Higher Forms” of Alien Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa In the hunt for life outside Earth, Mars is old news. “I think I’d rate Enceladus now over Europa, and there were people who were saying Europa was a better prospect than Mars,” said Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer of the SETI Institute, a nonprofit organization near San […]
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Archaeologists use tooth enamel protein to show sex of human remains The study of an archaeological site in Northern California uses a new method for estimating the biological sex of human remains based on reading protein sequences rather than DNA. The work is published in Scientific Reports on 17 July. The protein-based technique gave superior results to DNA analysis in studying […]
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NASA Just Recorded A Black Hole Devour A Sun-Sized Star For The First Time Ever A NASA satellite searching space for new planets gave astronomers an unexpected glimpse at a black hole ripping a star to shreds. This is one of the most detailed analyses of the phenomenon, called a tidal disruption event (or TDE), and the first for the […]
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Promising Signs For Perseverance Rover’s Quest for Martian Life The undulating streaks of land visible from space show rivers that flowed across the Martian surface — but for how long did the water flow? Enough time to document evidence of ancient life, according to a new Stanford study. The Jezero crater on Mars – the site of the next NASA […]
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FDA approves new NASA ventilator for emergency response in COVID-19 treatment According to the Space Agency, a new ventilator developed by NASA to treat victims of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic was issued emergency approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 30. The engineers of NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California., developed a high-pressure […]
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SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY 1.9 MILLION PIECES OF MICROPLASTIC IN SQUARE METER OF OCEAN FLOOR The amount of microplastics in the seabed is the highest level ever, with up to 1.9 million pieces covering just one square meter. Researchers said that they were “shocked” by the volume of microplastics found on the seafloor bed. According to research led by the University of Manchester […]
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FIRST SOLID EVIDENCE OF SOMEONE BEING KILLED BY A METEORITE DISCOVERED BY SCIENTISTS A man was hit and killed by a meteorite in Iraq in the early 19th century. Records of the event provide scientists with what is likely to be the earliest record of the death caused by being struck by a meteorite — and the only such death uncovered […]
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Vampire Bats “French Kiss” With Mouthfuls Of Blood To Develop Social Bonds There are all sorts of strange behaviours that animals establish and strengthen social relations. Elephants use watering holes. Birds dance. Vampire bats share blood-drenched “French kisses.” Dance of the birds. “French kisses” exchanged by vampires bats blood. According to IFLScience, scientists have found that a social ritual among […]
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Dinosaur DNA Found Remarkably Preserved in 75 Million-Year-Old Fossil Cartilage cells, chromosomes and DNA were found preserved in the baby duck-billed dinosaur 75 million-year-old fossils, according to a study. Skull fragments of young, nest-bound Hypacrosaurus specimens unarthed in Montana’s US from the ‘ Two Medicine Formation ‘ were analyzed by researchers. These organic material should not historically remain intact for so long […]
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3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Speaks From The Afterlife Scientists have fulfilled the wish for life after death of a mummified Egyptian priest-by replicating his voice with artificial vocal cords. The voice of Nesyamun was reproduced as a vowellike sound reminiscent of the bleat of a sheep. The priest lived between 1099 and 1069BC during the politically complex reign of Pharaoh Ramses XI. As a priest in Thebes, for his ritual duties which included singing, Nesyamun would […]
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