[ad_1] People often encounter coins, seashells and trash, but a teacher from Northern Ireland has made a discovery that will go down in history. In the 1980s, the late Roger Byrne, a schoolteacher and fossil collector, found several unidentified fossils on the east coast of County Antrim. He kept them for several years before giving … Read more
[ad_1] Photo credit: Gary Hershorn – Getty Images From House Beautiful Gather together, sky watchers: a frost moon will be visible in the night sky at the end of this month. Not only will you witness a full moon, but it will also be a faint eclipse. You won’t want to miss it! Depending on … Read more
[ad_1] NASA astronaut Victor Glover shared his first video from space as he and three other astronauts hovered above Earth on their way to the International Space Station. Glover is part of the Crew-1 mission launched aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, nicknamed “ Dragon Resilience, ” on November 15. This is Glover’s first trip to … Read more
[ad_1] A family-owned restaurant in Kentucky donated $ 60,000 to its employees a day before the governor issued an executive order ordering the closure of all restaurants inside to fight the coronavirus. Kentucky restaurants had to stop eating indoors from 5 p.m. Friday and remain closed to on-site dining until December 13, by order of … Read more
[ad_1] The open-source 3D printed cube can house self-designed inserts, electrical and optical components. The resulting modules can be combined to form complex optical instruments. This allows the smartphone to be transformed into a powerful microscope in no time at all – and at almost any place on earth – in order to ask and … Read more
[ad_1] A broken cable irreparably damaged the dish November 25, 2020 ARECIBO OBSERVATORY was designed in the era of space age monumentalism, an imposition of geometry on geology as striking in its simplicity and scale as the larger Brutalist architecture. When the James Bond franchise, in its pomp a showcase for iconic 1960s design, finally … Read more
[ad_1] The two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, have fascinated astronomers for hundreds of years. But the two gas giants will do something next month, unheard of since the Middle Ages – they will look like a dual planet. The rare event will occur after sunset on December 21, 2020, the … Read more
[ad_1] NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren struggles to contain fruit that arrived on the ISS on August 25, 2015. Lindgren was one of 10 astronauts included in a new study on the effects of long-duration missions. Picture: NASA A fascinating batch of new research papers highlight the various health risks associated with long-duration space missions, including … Read more
[ad_1] An Egyptian mummy decorated with a portrait of a woman contained a surprise – the body of a child who was only 5 years old when he died. Now, scientists have learned more about the mysterious young girl and her burial, through high-resolution scans and X-ray “microarrays” that targeted very small regions of the … Read more
[ad_1] A team of scientists have devised a new method to uncover clues to a 1900-year-old mummy without damaging the old corpse. Computed tomography and X-rays were combined for the first time to study an Egyptian mummy found at Hawara, an archaeological site in Egypt. While X-ray technology has been used to examine mummies for … Read more