This week the NASA folks behind the Curiosity Mars rover mission have published a set of papers which suggest that they’re closer than ever to finding habitable environments on the planet. These findings are pre-emptive in finding actual organic materials, and show how life could maybe, possibly have existed on Mars at one time. Basically […]
Fables tell us that it’s really stupid to build a house on sand. In reality, you can build your house on sand—as long as you live in a tectonically stable part of the world. If you don’t, an earthquake will turn the sand into quicksand, and as a consequence, it will turn your house into history.
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The International Space Station has been in orbit for over a decade above the Earth. The ISS is a multinational project with astronauts living and working in space for months at a time. The US-made ISS node called Unity and the Russian Zarya module opened for the first time on December 10, 1998. That means […]
Dengue and Malaria are two dangerous diseases with the potential to cause death. In common, they also have the lack of a vaccine, even though there is research being made in order to obtain vaccines for both diseases. Recently, a new technique using genetic engineering in order to modify vector mosquitoes can be helpful to reduce the transmission of these two diseases.
We all know that you can’t drink saltwater without removing the salt. In many parts of the world, clean fresh water is hard to come by. People drill deep wells, but at times, there is no water to be found. A group of researchers has discovered huge reserves of fresh water under the oceans. It […]
Superconducting materials that function at room temperature make electrons behave unpredictably. The electrons sometimes arrange themselves in lines or around atoms in an asymmetrical arrangement. This is one reason superconductors have not proliferated into everyday use — an advance that would render everything from power lines to personal computers far, far more efficient. But two […]
A planet eleven times as big as Jupiter has been discovered orbiting a star at a distance of 650 astronomical units. That’s 650 times as far from its star as Earth is from our own star. Never have we discovered a planet to be orbiting a star at so nearly great a distance. The planet […]
As earth’s population surges, mankind faces an increasingly limited supply of fresh water. Thankfully, Australian scientists report this week that they’ve found vast new fresh water supplies. Unfortunately, it’s in one of earth’s least accessible places: under the ocean floor
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It may surprise you that, despite our seemingly vast knowledge of the human body, we’re still decently in the dark when it comes to the smaller portions of the cardiovascular system. Even more surprising, the answer to that problem isn’t lying in more powerful microscopes. It’s in a heart pumping pure, shiny liquid metal.
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