Elon Musk continues to ramp up his efforts to get humanity to Mars, Ars Technica reported last week. He hopes to build 1,000 spaceships to settle on the red planet. Optimal trajectory and the length of the flight have been considered. […]
A planet 124 light years away may have habitable environmental conditions, “USA Today” reported. The planet in question, which is several times the size of Earth, was first discovered in 2015. Multiple factors must align to support our species. […]
Scientists have detected the first reliable radio signal pattern in space, CBS News reported. The transmission broadcasts from a galaxy half a billion light years away. Can radio astronomy catch up and solve the mystery? […]
Spools of yarn grown from human skin could serve as surgical stitches, CNN reported February 5. While most stitches self-dissolve or must be removed, this new technological type of stitches would be absorbed by the body. Biotechnology is the basis for this new medical development. […]
A 3,000-year-old mummy has spoken again thanks to modern science, “Nature” reported. The ancient remains were preserved well enough that the vocal cords were reproduced by scientists, producing a vowel-like sound. Preserved vocal chords are one unexpected benefit of ancient Egyptian mummification. […]
A 17-year-old NASA intern, Wolf Cukier,discovered a planet on his third day on the job, NASA reported recently. Cukier’s summer internship was at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Exoplanet hunting has had major successes only in the last 25 years. […]
Cold weather in Miami brought a warning of iguanas falling from trees, the National Weather Service tweeted last week. Low winter temperatures can put certain lizards into a coma-like state. Reptiles have adapted to land in wondrous ways. […]
A Finnish company has crafted a new protein from air, water, and electricity, “The Huffington Post” reported last week. Living microbes are grown in a lab and fed nutrients from the air to produce an edible protein powder. Will people in future generations thrive on it? […]
An alleged new species of fossilized spider is really a crayfish with legs painted on it, “Science Alert” reported. The fake spider was the subject of a paper published this year, but it has since been debunked. Paleontology tools helped crack the case. […]
As the human brain senses where we touch a held object, it can also pinpoint the exact location of where that object then touches another object, “Science Alert” reported Monday. Mapped neural activity shows our efforts to discern where an object that we’re holding makes physical contact with something else. We experience the sense of touch through a complex network of cells. […]
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