[ad_1] A team of scientists including Princeton’s Guðmundur Stefánsson have studied the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, which is made up of expanding (blue) hydrogen gas expanding from a central star, which is the remnant core of a stellar fusion. The red filaments are shock wave filaments from the fusion event. …
Read More »Elon Musk Nearly $ 14 billion richer this week after Tesla was admitted to the S&P 500
[ad_1] THE CHANGING LUCK OF THE RICHEST IN THE WORLD I It has been a very good week for Elon Musk. Not only did its SpaceX successfully send four NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on its first operational mission on Sunday, but S&P Global announced Tuesday that Tesla …
Read More »Why do some animals sleep so much?
[ad_1] A dog snoring all afternoon on the living room floor. Walrus snoozing on your stomach on a beach. Lions lying on the Serengeti. A hippopotamus dozing on a mud bank. These sleepy scenes may cause people to wonder why these other mammals seem to sleep so much more than …
Read More »Scientists have just discovered that outer space is not pitch black
[ad_1] Scientists Just Discovered Outer Space Is Not Pitch Black | Travel + free time Skip to content Top navigation Close Explore Travel + Leisure Close Look at the picture Scientists have just discovered that outer space is not pitch black this link takes you to an external site that …
Read More »When Greenland melts, we underestimate its impact on a new model
[ad_1] Greenland is the largest island in the world and has the largest mass of ice in the Northern Hemisphere. When all that ice has melted, the sea will rise over 7 meters. But it won’t happen, will it? Well, not any time soon, but figuring out how much ice …
Read More »Scientists “reverse effects of aging” with an innovative treatment
[ad_1] The study used oxygen therapy to reverse some of the effects of aging (Image: Getty Images) Apparently, scientists have been able to reverse some of the effects of aging for up to 25 years in a landmark study. Using oxygen therapy, the researchers returned the bodies of a group …
Read More »The throttle takes a cross-country trip to enable the laser upgrade
[ad_1] Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility shipped the new final section of the accelerator he built for a Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) upgrade. The accelerator section, called the cryomodule, has begun a cross-country road trip to DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where it will be installed in LCLS-II, the …
Read More »The oceans are becoming more acidic. Kelp can help reverse this problem
[ad_1] Carbon dioxide from industrial activities not only accumulates in the air, but has also penetrated ocean waters since the industrial revolution, increasing the acidity of the oceans by 30%. This is known to have negative impacts on marine organisms, especially those that build their skeletons with calcium. Now, researchers …
Read More »The mystery of the Blue Ring Nebula discovered after 16 years
[ad_1] The Blue Ring Nebula, a star with an unusual ultraviolet ring around it spotted by astronomers working on NASA’s now defunct Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission sixteen years ago, has amazed and perplexed researchers since its discovery. Now, it appears that astronomers may have finally uncovered the mystery behind …
Read More »Good antibodies. Machine-made molecules better?
[ad_1] The coronavirus may be new, but long ago, nature provided humans with the tools to recognize it, at least on a microscopic scale: antibodies, Y-shaped immune proteins that can attach to pathogens and prevent them from infiltrating cells. . Millions of years of evolution have turned these proteins into …
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