What will the first Mars settlers eat?
(Discover Magazine)- There’s no fresh fruit on Mars. We don’t have fresh vegetables,
either, and our food is nowhere near “local.” Most of our meals are made
of freeze-dried and dehydrated ...
Burnt-out stars show evidence rocky planets are common...
Science Daily — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space
Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place:
the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby st...
NASA's Many Eyes On the Sun
Several
missions within NASA’s Heliophysics observatory captured images of a
gigantic eruption on the sun on May 1, 2013. Working together, such
missions provide excellent coverage of a wide variety of ...
Credit: Image by NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS
Lake-resembling mound on Mars formed by wind...
Science Daily — A roughly 3.5-mile high Martian
mound that scientists suspect preserves evidence of a massive lake might
...
Surprisingly, monkeys get math...
Science Daily— Opposing thumbs, expressive
faces, complex social systems: it's hard to miss the similarities
between apes and humans. Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and
lots of pea...
A distinct burst of light that may allow astronomers to witness the birth of a new black hole...
(Phys.org) —When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it collapses under its own gravity and produces a black hole, an object so dense that...
Circular Coronal Mass Ejection
A coronal mass ejection (CME)
erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1, 2013, in a
gigantic rolling wave. CMEs can shoot over a billion tons of particles
into space at over a million mil...
Does the body's "fountain of aging" reside in the brain region known as the hypothalamus? Researchers thing so...
Science Daily — While the search continues for
the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body's "fountain...
