This coming May 31, an asteroid said to be roughly 9 times the size of Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship is expected to fly by our planet.
Scientists working with NASA wish to stress that, regardless of its impressive size, the space rock does not constitute a threat to either our planet or the moon.
This i... [read more >>] This May 17, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) went public with the news that, according to an investigation they carried out back in 2012, over 50% of the public swimming pools in the United States contain traces of poop.
The CDC reached this conclusion following their testing water samples collected... [read more >>] This week's issue of the scientific journal Cell witnessed the publication of a new study detailing how a team of researchers have succeeded in cloning human embryos and using them to harvest patient-specific stem cells.
As these specialists explain, human embryonic stem cells have the ability to tur... [read more >>] Six people have reportedly been killed and at least 100 have been injured this past Wednesday night, when several tornadoes hit Texas' Dallas – Forth Worth region.
Some of the people injured by these tornadoes now find themselves in a critical condition, information shared with the public says.... [read more >>] Water believed to be at least 1.5 billion years old has been discovered by a team of researchers, who detail their findings in an article published this past May 15 in the scientific journal Nature. The water was found in a mine located at about 2.4 kilometers below the Earth's surface in Ontario, Ca... [read more >>] Several researchers keep warning us about a climate change-induced global food crisis, so the news that a so-called test-tube burger has recently been rolled out by a team of scientists in the Netherlands is bound to be a head turner.
Dr. Mark and his fellow researchers maintain that, all things considere... [read more >>] It seems that the coolant leak problem at the International Space Station is serious enough to warrant no further delay in fixing, so two astronauts are now preparing for an unscheduled spacewalk to try to fix it.
The spacewalk will be held tomorrow, and US astronauts Tom Mashburn and Chris Cassidy will ve... [read more >>] The International Space Station is suffering an ammonia leak from one of the solar arrays powering the station. While the problem is serious, the crew is in no immediate danger. ISS Commander Chris Hadfield, who usually uses his Twitter account to post spectacular photos from space, confirmed that there i... [read more >>] An article published in this week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine documents the case of a woman with a so-called spiraling esophagus.
This 87-year-old woman apparently suffered with a peculiar medical condition that caused her esophagus to change its shape and turn into a corkscrew whe... [read more >>] This past Tuesday, specialists working with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the Geology Service of Brazil announced that they might have discovered a long-lost continent. This continent, now referred to as the Brazilian Atlantis, allegedly sunk into the Atlantic Ocean quite a ... [read more >>] |
Find us on Google+
RSS
