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Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill approaches the coast of Mobile, Ala., May 6, 2010. (US Navy)

Sunlight Can Hinder Oil Spill Cleanup Efforts

April 27, 2018

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. Among the tools used to lessen the impact of oil spills are chemical dispersants which break up the floating oil into small droplets. But […]

A cluster of E. coli bacteria magnified 10,000 times. (USDA)

New Device Will Tell You if Your Food is Safe to Eat

April 6, 2018

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 such a solution. They’ve developed a new transparent test patch, named “Sentinel Wrap”, that can tell you if the food you’re […]

Glass of wine (Klaus Post - Creative Commons 2.0/Flickr)

Drinking Wine Could Aid Oral Health

March 1, 2018

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 be good for heart, brain, and muscle health. Some studies have also found that it might even be able to help fight […]

Piles of snow along the streets of Boston after the blizzard of January 24-28, 2015. (Fuhvah/Creative Commons 4.0 via Wikimedia)

Researchers Develop Environmentally Friendly Method To Melt Snow Quickly

February 15, 2018

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 what to do with all the snow once it’s been cleared. The current solution is to either push the snow into gigantic piles and […]

European Space Agency's three satellite Swarm network provide a high-resolution picture of the Earth's magnetic field (ESA)

Radioactive Material Found in Fracking Waste; Searching Space for H20

December 21, 2016

Radioactive Isotopes Found in Fracking Waste US oil and natural gas production, has been boosted in recent years by a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking.” But this practice has also been criticized for its possible impact on the environment because of the wastewater this method generates. A new study published in […]

Diabetic patient prepares a dose of insulin for injection (Silva via Flickr/Creative Commons)

Dark Matter Galaxy; Making Bland Tasty; Ouchless Insulin

August 26, 2016

Galaxy Made-Up of Mostly Dark Matter Discovered A team of astronomers, using two of the world’s most powerful ground based telescopes, have discovered an enormous galaxy that’s only .01 percent visible. The remaining 99.9 percent, according to the astronomers, is made up of dark matter. The faint galaxy is called Dragonfly 44. It’s located within […]

Black Hole Mass Measured; Ice Sheets on Mars; Saliva Diagnoses Disease

May 6, 2016

Astronomers Precisely Measure Black Hole Mass A group of astronomers have been able to determine the precise mass of a distant black hole in the center of an enormous elliptical galaxy 73 million light years away. The galaxy is called NGC 1332 and is located in the direction of the southern constellation Eridanus. To measure […]

Fast Radio Burst Source Found; High Tech Fishing; Stress and Heart Health

February 29, 2016

Astronomers Locate Source of a Fast Radio Burst Nearly a decade ago a pair of astronomers were going through some archival data gathered by the 210-foot Parkes radio telescope in Australia when they discovered a mysterious, powerful burst of radio waves that lasted only a few milliseconds. The astronomers determined that these fast radio bursts […]

New Tool to Find ET; Detecting Spoiled Meat; Usernames Reveal Personality

November 18, 2015

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 ‘chemical laptop’ to help search for extraterrestrial life. The battery-powered device is actually a miniature laboratory that’s being equipped to consume and analyze samples in order to detect any material that might […]

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)

Oxygen Found in Comet’s Atmosphere; Making Robots Walk Like Humans

October 28, 2015

Scientists Find Oxygen in Comet’s Atmosphere A couple of days ago we told you about the discovery of a boozy comet that dispensed large amounts of alcohol, sugar and other organic compounds as it made its pass by the sun last January. Now, researchers from the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University […]

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