Category: SCIENCE

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

7 Billion-Year-Old Stardust Is Oldest Material Found on Earth Older Than The Sun Life periods of planets. We come to life as space-flowing pieces of dust and gas meet each other and collapse and heat up. For millions or milliards of years, they burn and then die. Once they die, they pitch out into space the particles that formed in […]

Scientists Grow Beating Human Heart From Stem Cells Over a third of Americans who need a new heart will not get the transplant they deserve in the upcoming year. And those lucky enough to receive one still run the major risk of their body rejecting it. However, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have announced that they’ve […]