Space photo of the week: Hubble spots a stellar ‘H-bomb’ exploding in Aquarius at 1 million mph
This Hubble Space Telescope image includes the binary star system R Aquarii. (Image credit: Image credit: NASA, ESA, Matthias Stute, Margarita Karovska, Davide De Martin(ESA/Hubble ), Mahdi Zamani(ESA/Hubble)) What it…
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Will Mount Everest always be the world’s tallest mountain?
Mount Everest is the greatest mountain as determined from water level. This remarkable height was enabled through aspects like tectonics and disintegration. (Image credit: christinepemberton by means of Getty Images)…
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Earth’s mantle is split into two halves thanks to supercontinent Pangaea
An illustration of the world when it was covered in a single huge continent called Pangaea. (Image credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY by means of Getty Images) Earth’s mantle is…
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Lasers reveal secrets of lost Silk Road cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan
A lidar view of Tugunbulak, the website of an almost 300-acre middle ages city in Uzbekistan, with crest lines. (Image credit: SAIElab/J. Berner/M. Frachetti ) Concealed in the towering mountains…
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Daily Consumption of Pistachios Could Be Effective Dietary Strategy for Preserving Eye Health
Dietary interventions with pistachios– a bioavailable source of the xanthophyll lutein– are effective in increasing macular pigment optical density (MPOD) in healthy grownups, according to a brand-new research study from…
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Are Boeing’s problems beyond fixable?
A brand-new CEO assures a culture modification as the aerospace titan is having a hard time hard. Credit: Getty Images|Olivier Douliery As Boeing’s newest president, Kelly Ortberg’s task was never…
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Babirusa: The prehistoric ‘deer’ pigs with huge antler teeth
Babirusas are amongst the earliest living members of the pig household and up until 2002, all babirusas were believed to come from a single types. (Image credit: Manoj Shah/Getty Images)…
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Scientists have dated the moon’s oldest, and largest, impact site
Elevation information reveals the lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin, the biggest and earliest effect basin on the moon, in blue and purple. (Image credit: NASA/GSFC/University of Arizona ) You do not…
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ISS leaks among 50 ‘areas of concern’ for astronaut safety: report
The International Space Station. (Image credit: NASA ) NASA and its Russian equivalent have actually determined 50 “areas of concern” associated to a long-running leakage aboard the spaceport station, a…
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How many nuclear bombs have been used?
A-bombs have actually been checked because 1945. (Image credit: Getty Images) On July 16, 1945, the U.S. carried out the world’s very first a-bomb test in the New Mexico desert…
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