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This artist's concept shows planet KELT-9b orbiting its host star, KELT-9. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Iron and Titanium Found in Atmosphere of Ultra-hot Exoplanet

August 17, 2018

The chemical makeup of Earth’s atmosphere is said to contain about 78% Nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with argon, carbon dioxide, and other gases making up the remaining 1%. But an international team of scientists says they have detected vapors of iron and titanium in the atmosphere of what is considered to be the hottest “ultra-hot” […]

Artist impression of the 14 galaxies hdetected by ALMA as they appear in the very early, very distant universe. These galaxies are in the process of merging and will eventually form the core of a massive galaxy cluster. (NRAO/AUI/NSF; S. Dagnello)

Galaxy Megamergers 1.4 – 1.5 Billion Years after the Big Bang

April 26, 2018

Two teams of astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), in Chile, to observe dense concentrations of so-called “starburst” galaxies. With these galaxies packing together so closely, the scientific teams realized that they were getting ready to violently collide and merge with each other, which would eventually […]

Tongue and taste buds. (Saurabh R. Patil/Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported via Wikimedia Commons)

Obesity May Dull Sense of Taste

March 23, 2018

A new study published in the journal PLOS Biology supports past research that suggests the more weight you gain the less you are able to taste the food you eat. The study, based on research with mice, suggests that obesity-driven inflammation actually reduced the number of their taste buds on their tongues. There are 50 […]

Neanderthal Man (Michael Brace via Flickr/Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0)

Neanderthals May Have Been Caring and Compassionate

March 15, 2018

When you think of a Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) what comes to mind – a crude, brutish and uncaring caveman type of individual? According to a new analysis by researchers at the UK’s University of York, that stereotype may not necessarily be true. In a study published in the journal, World Archeology, the researchers provide evidence […]

Fake News Graffiti, Friargate Railway Station, Derby, UK (Eamon Curry via Flickr/Creative Commons 2.0)

Study: Lies Spread Quicker and Farther Than Truth

March 12, 2018

Over the years the Internet and social media have proved themselves valuable resources for our daily lives. In tandem, the two have provided us with an invaluable means of communication, allowing us to gather and share a wide range of information. But the Internet along with social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, have also […]

Earth's Moon (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

Widespread Water on Moon But Not Easy to Retrieve

February 27, 2018

A new study, led by Joshua Bandfield of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, suggests that water is widely spread across our moon’s surface. It can be found day or night and in many locations and types of terrain. The findings reported in this study were found to contradict previous research. But the study, […]

This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with X-ray emission emanating from its inner region (pink) and ultrafast winds (light purple lines) streaming from the surrounding disk. (ESA)

NASA Prevents Space Wreck; Black Hole Winds; Oldest Fossils Found

March 3, 2017

NASA Prevents a Wreck at Mars The folks at NASA’s MAVEN program recently had to give their spacecraft a small unscheduled course correction so that it wouldn’t smash into Mars’s moon Phobos. The spacecraft that’s been circling the Red Planet for a little over two years conducted a motor burn that give it a slight […]

Trio of Planets Found Circling “Ultra-cool” Star Might Support Life

May 2, 2016

An international team of astronomers has discovered three exoplanets that could possibly host alien life. The trio of planets are circling an “ultra-cool” brown dwarf that’s located about 40 light years from Earth, in the constellation of Aquarius. “Ultra-cool” dwarf stars are those that that are much cooler and redder than our Sun, and only […]

Zika Kills Cells Crucial to Brain Development; Did Volcanoes Cause Mars to Tilt?

March 7, 2016

Study: Zika Virus Infects and Kills Fetal Cerebral Cortex Cells This birth defect can cause babies to be born with an unusually small head and inhibited brain development. The scientists, who made their findings based on experiments performed with lab-grown human stem cells, discovered that the Zika virus is attracted to and infects the cells […]

Hidden Galaxies Found, Long-Term Impact of CO2 Emissions, Meditation/Exercise Cuts Depression

February 10, 2016

Astronomers Spot Never Before Seen Galaxies behind Milky Way An international team of scientists was able to find hundreds of nearby galaxies that had been hidden by the dust and stars of the Milky Way galaxy and were able to gain new insight into a mysterious astronomical anomaly some 150 million light years away. Writing […]

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