[ad_1] Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest geniuses in history, with skills and inventions well ahead of his time. On many occasions his work was shrouded in mystery, hiding secrets invisible at first glance. Now a new study has found another, linked to bacteria and fungi. Image Credit: The Authors. In search of … Read more
[ad_1] Telomeres on a chromosome. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. All living creatures wither and die eventually. There is no escape from death and taxes, they say. But that doesn’t mean aging can’t be slowed down. In fact, researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel went further, showing in a new study that weekly hyperbaric oxygen sessions … Read more
[ad_1] Over the past year, the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted to the world the value of science – not only in tracking the spread of a deadly virus and developing ways to stop it, but also in providing a method. rational to understand a scary stranger. For some scientists, the pandemic comes with silver liners, … Read more
[ad_1] This false-color composite image of Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater on Mars shows geologists an evolving planetary environment. On Mars, the sky is not blue, but the image was made to resemble Earth so that scientists can distinguish the layers of stratification. Credit: NASA / JPL Floods of unimaginable magnitude swept through Gale Crater … Read more
[ad_1] South Texas was treated to a breathtaking cosmic spectacle Thursday night when a meteor lit up the sky, videos. Yardage captured by a Brownsville meteorologist shows the fireball trail across the night sky before it appears to burn in one last giant flash. The shooting star was part of the Leonid meteor shower, according … Read more
[ad_1] Scientists have found a way to perfectly diffuse energy throughout any room, thanks to a sci-fi-type device they call an “anti-laser.” The idea is simple: just like a laser emits particles of light, or photons, one after another in a neat, orderly row, an anti-laser sucks photons one after the other in reverse order. … Read more
[ad_1] NOTASA deputy administrator Jim Morhard has perhaps one of the most low-key public reactions to the presidential election result. “It’s a day for everyone, to say the least,” he said at the start of a presentation on November 7 at the SpaceGen Summit of the Space Generation Advisory Council, just three hours after a … Read more
[ad_1] Published on Nov 20, 2020 in Science The now iconic image of M87’s monster black hole – an object described as “the most perfect macroscopic objects in the universe, the only elements of their construction are our concepts of space and time” – captured in April 2019 by the Event Horizon team highlighted the … Read more
[ad_1] Some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way are not where we’d expect them to be. One of the ways we categorize stars is by their metallicity. It is the fraction of heavier elements that a star has relative to hydrogen and helium. It is a useful metric because the metallicity of a … Read more
[ad_1] The Falcon 9 booster from the Crew-1 launch returned to Port Canaveral on Thursday aboard the SpaceX “Just Read the Instructions” drone. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now The Falcon 9 booster that launched four astronauts into orbit last weekend returned to Florida’s space coast on Thursday aboard a SpaceX drone, sailing to Port … Read more