[ad_1] The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), on the 5,000-meter-high plateau of Chajnantor in the Chilean Andes. Credit: ESO / B. Tafreshi / TWAN (twanight.org) An international team of researchers discovered a dense, cold gas that was hurled from the center of the Milky Way “like bullets”. Exactly how the gas was ejected remains a mystery, … Read more
[ad_1] An asteroid has crossed Earth within 1,830 miles | Martha stewart Top navigation To close Explore Martha Stewart Back to history To close Comment this project Rating reviews Comment this story Tell us what you think … Submit Thank you for adding your comments. To close See picture An asteroid passed within 1,830 miles … Read more
[ad_1] Dinosaurs likely had a different bone structure than mammals and birds, which was only able to support enormous weights, according to a new study. A team of paleontologists, mechanical and biomedical engineers examined the bones of the upper and lower legs of hadrosaurs and duck-billed sauropods, long-necked, large-bodied plant-eaters, whose fossils have been found … Read more
[ad_1] US military is developing self-healing, shape-shifting material that could lead to ‘Terminator’ type drones that transform to adapt to new threats The US military is in the early stages of designing a self-healing, shape-changing material The material will have the characteristics of the character T-1000 from Terminator 2 He has a shape memory behavior … Read more
[ad_1] Photo source: Silvan Leinss – Own work – CC BY-SA 4.0 Since the turn of the new century, every aspect of climate change has become ballistic, high, high and far without looking back, leaving the 20e fairly harmless century, but only on a relative basis, especially compared to rip-snorting 21st century. It’s a whole … Read more
[ad_1] If it’s a day ending in -y, researchers are probably arguing over the origins of the mysterious interstellar object ‘Oumuamua. A study recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters put the kibosh on the idea that “Oumuamua is made of molecular hydrogen ice, an idea first proposed in April and reported by Fox News. … Read more
[ad_1] On August 16, 2020, just after midnight Eastern Time (US), a small asteroid buzzed our planet, passing just 2,950 kilometers above the Earth’s surface! Sensational. This is close. This is only a quarter of the diameter of the Earth! The good news is that she missed, and even if she had hit, she would … Read more
[ad_1] Scientists are watching closely for a growing “breach” in Earth’s magnetic field across a strip of the Atlantic Ocean stretching from South Africa in the west to Brazil. In this area, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, the magnetic field – the invisible shield that protects the planet from radiation and charged particles from … Read more
[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images The construction of large-scale dams has played a surprising role in limiting the rising seas, scientists say. Over the past century, melting glaciers and thermal expansion of seawater have caused ocean levels to rise. But this new study reveals that dams almost stopped the rising seas in the 1970s because … Read more
[ad_1] An international team of researchers discovered a dense, cold gas that was expelled from the center of the Milky Way “Like bullets.” It remains a mystery exactly how the gas was ejected, but the research team, including Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths of The Australian National University (ANU), say their findings could have important implications for … Read more