Science & Health

If an advanced species populated Earth before humans, could we have identified them?

Earth has been around for billions of years and humans have been around for less than half a million years. What if there were an ancient, industrialized, intelligent, spacefaring species that lived and died on Earth before we ended up here? How will we find them?

May 1, 2018

Antarctic glacier with enough water to raise global sea-levels about to pop

Antarctic ice shelves are melting fast and a few checkpoints acting like corks at the edge of land is holding it all back. A massive study has been launched to find out how, when, and in what way ice at the edge of the sea interacts with the bedrock beneath it.

May 1, 2018

Longest possible straight-line boat ride in the world connects Pakistan to Russia

If you start at the southern beaches of Pakistan and travel in a straight line between Africa and Madagascar, a perfectly straight line through the globe would take you to Russia in a journey that is over 32,000 km long.

May 1, 2018

No, the Earth's geomagnetic field is not going to flip, only weaken

The Earth's magnetic field is weakening and this has led scientists to speculate that the field is undergoing a complete reversal. However, previous extreme events and their patterns show that this time, the magnetic field will wobble, but recover without too much harm done.

May 1, 2018

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy - most powerful still operational rocket, 'too small' says Boeing

Boeing has made some tall claims regarding their SLS rockets. They say that it will be far more capable than SpaceX's Falcon Heavy which is right now the most powerful rocket in operation.

May 1, 2018

C-section delivery can make babies prone to asthma, say experts

Experts say that children born through C-section have weaker lungs and are vulnerable to inflammatory disease in their early years. Asthma is a medical condition in which patient's airways narrow and swell and produce extra mucus.

May 1, 2018

Hiroshima victims' bones reveal how much radiation they experienced after bomb blast

In August 1945, the US had dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing thousands and leveling both cities in a matter of minutes. Scientists have now figured out how much radiation a person would have experienced at ground zero.

Apr 30, 2018

Shape of brain, not its size helped early humans replace the Neanderthals

Neanderthals had smaller cerebellums when compared to modern humans and that meant they could not adapt to the changing environment as well as modern human invasion.

Apr 30, 2018

NASA's InSight lander attached to Atlas V, launch set for May 5

On May 5 NASA will launch its next Mars mission that will offer a look into the deep interior structure of Mars- this will be the first time that a mission is concentrating on the interior of the planet.

Apr 30, 2018

Bezos' Blue Origin makes highest test flight to date, nails the landing

Blue Origin is building a rocket to specifically carry a small group of 6 people to space and back and this test flight is the second one with a used rocket. The rocket reached an altitude of about 106 km then proceeded to reach its landing pad.

Apr 30, 2018

Football heading can give players worse brain injuries than collision, says study

The study revealed that players who gave most headings had the poorest performance on psychomotor speed and attention tasks. And,these impacts can also be linked to poorer performance on the working memory tasks.

Apr 30, 2018

World's first floating nuclear plant put to sea by Russia

FNPP was towed out of the St. Petersburg shipyard where it was constructed for travel to its final destination to the port of Pevek in Russia's extreme northeastern region of Chukotka.

Apr 30, 2018

Galaxy clusters formed within 2 billion years after Big Bang observed mid-merge

Galaxy clusters are massive structures made as a result of several galaxies merging into one massive galaxial feature. The ALMA telescope has just seen one that is mid-merge that happened more than 12 billion years back.

Apr 29, 2018

Earth will be hit by a civilization-ending asteroid with 100% certainty

Astronomers believe that it has happened several times since the birth of Earth and that at least once, it has ended the reign of dinosaurs and made way for mammals to grow, there's nothing stopping it happening again.

Apr 29, 2018

NASA wants to land on the Moon, after cancelling their rover program

NASA has set its sights on Moon landing and exploration, but have cut off the development of their only new Moon rover which would have reached the Moon's polar regions and mined for oxygen and water.

Apr 29, 2018