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NASA has detected a massive thermonuclear explosion coming from outer space, caused by a massive thermonuclear flash on the surface of a pulsar — the crushed remains of a star that long ago exploded as a supernova. The explosion released as much energy in 20 seconds as the Sun does in nearly 10 days. NASA’s

The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette, center, as it transits across the face of the Sun, behind … [+] the Washington Monument, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in Washington. Mercury’s last transit was in 2016. The next won’t happen again until 2032. NASA/Bill Ingalls A rare transit of Mercury across the face of the sun took

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin On May 9, 2016, the prior transit of Mercury occurred, and was photographed many times on a… [+] practically continuous basis by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Transits of Mercury are rare, occurring approximately during only 4% of all inferior conjunctions (when it passes between Earth and

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin What’s there to learn at the end of the alley? Only one way to find out. Free for commercial use (via Pixabay) Blind alleys get a bad rap. You’ve been working hard. Maybe for months or even years on what you think is the right direction.

It’s more than passing strange that in an age of so much scientific and medical progress so many people remain in the dark about the science of their own private parts. That this can be a cause of embarrassment is one of the least of the harmful consequences of such ignorance. As Dr. Jen Gunter

The 2006 Mercury transit across the Sun observed in great detail with the three telescope … [+] instruments on board the Hinode (Solar-B) satellite. Hinode JAXA/NASA/PPARC On Monday morning at 7:34 a.m. ET the planet Mercury will begin to cross the sun’s disk. This is not going to be the easiest astronomical event of 2019

null Getty Our Sun is about five billion years old. It’s a difficult span of time to wrap our heads around, but the Sun is not particularly old for a star. We know of stars well more than twice that age. We also know that the Sun formed from the remnants of older, long-dead stars.

Boeing on Monday morning declared successful its test of the emergency abort system for the spacecraft it’s developing to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, even though only two of the three main parachutes deployed. The test, at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, was a long-anticipated milestone for a company that

A new calculator developed by a team from The Cleveland Clinic can help calculate the risk of … [+] different cardiovascular outcomes when you opt for bariatric surgery versus non-surgical care under different circumstances. Photographer: Ron Antonelli/Bloomberg © 2014 Bloomberg Finance LP It’s not clear when you can say, “there’s an app for that,” because

This simulation shows the radiation emitted from a binary black hole system. In principle, we should… [+] have neutron star binaries, black hole binaries, and neutron star-black hole systems, covering the entire allowable mass range. In practice, we see a ‘gap’ in such binaries between about 2 and 5 solar masses. It is a great

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (Reuters) – NASA, most prominent for its many Florida-launched exploits into space, showcased an early version of its first all-electric experimental aircraft, the X-57 “Maxwell,” on Friday at its lesser-known aeronautics lab in the California desert. Adapted from a Italian-made Tecnam P2006T twin-engine propeller plane, the X-57 has been under

Parrots throw perfectly good food onto the floor because that’s what parrots do, according to a new study A wild blue-headed macaw (Primolius couloni) prepares to waste a fruit in the Amazonian region in … [+] Perú. (Credit: José Tella) José Tella If you live with parrots, like me, then you spend a significant amount

As NASA plans to return humans to the Moon in 2024, scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth as part of the the US space agency’s final mission of the Apollo programme. The sample, opened on Tuesday, was collected on the Moon by Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner’s four launch abort engines and several orbital maneuvering and attitude … [+] control thrusters ignite in the company’s Pad Abort Test, pushing the spacecraft away from the test stand with a combined 160,000 pounds of thrust, from Launch Complex 32 on White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Photo Credit: NASA Early

We often visualize space as a 3D grid, even though this is a frame-dependent oversimplification when… [+] we consider the concept of spacetime. The question of whether space and time are discrete or continuous, and whether there’s a smallest possible length scale, is still unanswered. However, we do know that below the Planck distance scale,

Pae Natwilai, Founder and CEO of Trik. Pae Natwilai While growing up in Thailand, Pae Natwilai’s top priorities in selecting a career were good work-life balance and a decent salary. As was customary in Thai culture, she was encouraged to specialize in one field early on rather than pursuing a multidisciplinary education. Having excelled at

Walmart and Tesla have settled a lawsuit filed by the retail giant alleging that Tesla installed rooftop solar panels that caught fire. Lawyers for both sides filed documents in New York Supreme Court discontinuing the legal action. The companies say in a joint statement that both sides have resolved issues raised by Walmart in the

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Balls of ice formed on Lake Michigan during the spring thaw. Getty They’ve been spotted along a river in Alaska, on the beach in Finland and they regularly form along the shores of Lake Michigan. Balls of ice that look as if they’ve been sculpted by

The farther a galaxy is, the faster it expands away from us and the more its light appears… [+] redshifted. A galaxy moving with the expanding Universe will be even a greater number of light years away, today, than the number of years (multiplied by the speed of light) that it took the light emitted

Composite image of the transit of Mercury in 2016. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Genna Duberstein On Monday, November 11, Mercury will pass in front of the Sun as seen from Earth. It is known as a transit. It last happened in 2016, but the next one won’t happen again until 2032. Catch it if you

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fossils unearthed in southern Germany of a remarkable ape that lived about 11.6 million years ago may dramatically alter the understanding of the evolutionary origins of a fundamental human trait – walking upright on two legs. Twenty-one fossilized bones of the most complete partial skeleton of a male of the extinct ape

IBM weighed in Tuesday on the policy debate over facial recognition technology, arguing against an outright ban but calling for “precision regulation” to protect privacy and civil liberties. In a white paper posted on its website, the US computing giant said policymakers should understand that “not all technology lumped under the umbrella of ‘facial recognition’

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin TOPSHOT – Festival co-director, Dominique Rovini (L) and Anne-Claire Adet pose facing a 7 meter high … [+] inflated sculpture in the shape of a clitoris at the entrance of the Saint-Gervais theater at the opening of the 14th edition of “Les Creatives” a dance, theater

Our entire cosmic history is theoretically well-understood, but only because we understand the… [+] theory of gravitation that underlies it, and because we know the Universe’s present expansion rate and energy composition. Light will always continue to propagate through this expanding Universe, and we will continue to receive that light arbitrarily far into the future,

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A satellite mission to measure global methane emissions from oil and gas facilities will be based in New Zealand, the government said on Wednesday, in a collaboration with a U.S. environmental group. The MethaneSAT, due to be launched in 2022, is designed to locate and measure methane from human sources worldwide, and

Lt. Gen. John F. Thomson conducted a live interview with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who dispensed advice … [+] to a group of space entrepreneurs like, “Don’t run two companies at once.” Alex Knapp / Forbes Elon Musk told a group of assembled space entrepreneurs that if they can build a rocket component better than

US government funding in artificial intelligence has fallen short and the country needs to invest in research, train an AI-ready workforce and apply the technology to national security missions, a government-commissioned panel led by Google’s former CEO said in an interim report on Monday. The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), created by Congress last

SOMIS, CA – NOVEMBER 01: Pump jacks at an oil extraction site are seen at the Maria Fire, which … [+] exploded to 8,000 acres on its first night on November 1, 2019 near Somis, California. Southern California has been hit by a series of dangerous, fast-moving wildfires this week as Santa Ana Winds ushered

UK nonprofit Ethical Consumer recently published shopping guide for smartphones, laptops, and desktops. Its researchers considered factors like: the presence of conflict minerals (tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold) in electronic components the use of toxic chemicals (polyvinyl chloride, brominated flame retardants, and phthalates), which harm workers and communities around e-waste dumps the planned obsolescence and

Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan (right) attend the 8th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at … [+] NASA on November 03, 2019 in Mountain View, California. ( Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images Some of the top scientists who accepted Breakthrough Prize awards for their work in physics and biology used the nationally broadcast ceremony to

FILE PHOTO: The Boeing logo is displayed on a screen, at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid SEATTLE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing Co said on Monday that one of three parachutes failed to open during a crucial unmanned test of the CST-100 Starliner, which the company is

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will do everything to demonstrate soft landing of its satellite on Moon, its Chairman K. Sivan said here on Saturday, nearly two months after such an attempt of Chandrayaan-2 failed. Sivan, who had become emotional after the Chandrayaan-2 landing failed on September 7, said that ISRO is working on

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The journey of NASA’s dauntless Voyager 2 spacecraft through our solar system’s farthest reaches has given scientists new insight into a poorly understood distant frontier: the unexpectedly distinct boundary marking where the sun’s energetic influence ends and interstellar space begins. FILE PHOTO: NASA’s Voyager spacecraft in space is shown in this artist’s

The vehicle lifted off from the desert this morning. Boeing/NASA TV Boeing has performed a “successful” pad abort test of its Starliner crew capsule, a key step towards launching humans into space in 2020 – although the vehicle experienced a problem with its parachutes during the test. At 9.15 A.M. Eastern Time today, Monday, November

From the distant Universe, light has traveled for some 10.7 billion years from distant galaxy… [+] MACSJ2129-1, lensed, distorted and magnified by the foreground clusters imaged here. The most distant galaxies appear redder because their light is redshifted by the expansion of the Universe, which helps explain what we measure as Hubble’s law. NASA, ESA,

Security personnel wear masks as they stand guard during a hazy morning, on November 3, 2019 in New … [+] Delhi, India. The air quality index (AQI) hit 473 at 9 am, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data. The air quality at most monitoring stations was in the severe category. At ITO, the

According to Cal Tech physicist Sean Carroll in his excellent new book, Something Deeply Hidden, so far, quantum mechanics has worked precisely because scientists have been forced, to just ‘shut up and calculate’, even though the underlying philosophy of the whole field requires making a special allowance for the human beings who conduct physical measurements.

NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 28:  Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Galactic, poses for photographs … [+] before ringing a ceremonial bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to promote the first day of trading of Virgin Galactic Holdings shares on October 28, 2019 in New York City. Virgin Galactic

BEIJING (Reuters) – China launched a new high-resolution remote sensing satellite capable of providing stereoscopic imagery on Sunday, state-run media said, marking another important step as Beijing seeks to reduce reliance on foreign technology in topographic mapping. A rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in northern China at 11:22 a.m. local time,

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin A map created by ESRI, a company specialized in geographic information systems, shows known volcanic eruptions in the past 10,000 years. The dynamic map displays the location of the eruption and associated Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), a relative measure of the explosiveness of a volcanic eruption

The Chandra’s Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2) payload aboard the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter has detected Argon-40, said Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). According to ISRO, the Orbiter that is orbiting the moon has detected Argon-40 from an altitude of about 100 km. Argon-40 (40Ar), which is one of the isotopes of the noble gas Argon, is an

Migrating without papers can be dangerous. In the last five years, around 19,000 people have died while attempting to reach Europe – almost all of them on the Mediterranean Sea crossing. According to the Missing Migrants Project of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), migrants’ deaths in Europe in 2019 have been mainly caused by

The latest Salmonella outbreak has been linked to ground beef. (Photo: Getty Images) Getty You may have a beef with the latest Salmonella outbreak. Just make sure that it isn’t under-cooked ground beef. Yes, folks, there is yet another Salmonella outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This time it is

Black holes are thought of as cosmic leviathans, capable of destroying planets and stars. However, … [+] in many respects they are essentially just heavy and dark stars. Getty Generally speaking, black holes are the corpse of a dead star. But not all stars become black holes at the end of their life – for instance,

Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors grimaces after he was injured in the second half of … [+] their game against the Phoenix Suns at Chase Center on October 30, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) Getty Images What’s been a bad season for the Golden State Warriors just

In order to bring the benefits of 5G technology to a worldwide population, a new set of towers,… [+] routers, and additional infrastructure will need to be installed. Although there are many articles and sources touting the potential dangers of 5G in particular and WiFi in general, one needs to examine the full suite of

People wearing zombie make up attend the Belgrade Zombie Walk in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Oct. … [+] 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) ASSOCIATED PRESS Welcome back to 2019’s Halloween Horror Double Feature. In a classic episode of The Twilight Zone, the residents of a suburban neighborhood receive a chilling announcement: “the monsters are coming!” As

Scientists check plants inside of an aeroponic growing chamber system as an experiment called Marsonaut at Prague University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic, October 30, 2019. REUTERS/David W Cerny PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech scientists have opened a lab to experiment growing food for environments with extreme conditions and lack of water, such as