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New Ebola Drugs Possible; New Weather Satellite; Bacteria or Virus?

January 22, 2016

Ebola Antibodies Could Lead to Effective Vaccines and Therapies According to the Centers for Disease Control, the 2014 West African Ebola Epidemic killed 11,316 people with about 28,638 suspected, probable, and confirmed cases of the deadly disease. The worst outbreak of Ebola in history prompted researchers from around the world to work on developing ways […]

SpARCS1049+56 is a massive cluster of galaxies that creates hundreds of new stars each year. It's pictured here in this multi-wavelength view from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. (NASA/STScI/ESA/JPL-Caltech/McGill)

Astronomers Find Massive Star Making Galaxy Cluster

September 12, 2015

Astronomers have discovered a distant and massive galaxy cluster with a gigantic and prolific galaxy at its heart that’s pumping out hundreds of stars each year. The galaxy cluster is named SpARCS 1049+56 and is located about 9.8 billion light years from Earth in the Ursa Major constellation. Galaxy clusters are areas of the universe […]

Scientist 99% Sure Global Climate Change is Man-Made

April 14, 2014

A Canadian physicist says his studies have all but completely ruled out the premise that global warming throughout the industrial era has not been merely a natural fluctuation in Earth’s climate, as some have been claiming.  The assertion was made after the scientist analyzed temperature data from as far back as 1500. “This study will […]

Arctic Bacterium Offers Clues to Life on Mars

May 24, 2013

A permafrost microbe has been discovered growing at –15°C, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth. A team of scientists from Montreal’s McGill University made the discovery on Ellesmere Island, located in the Canadian High Arctic. Researchers said they  found the living strain of bacteria growing in the extreme cold of the  permafrost, which […]

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