Written by Dr David Whitehouse
Image copyright: CHINA MANNED SPACE ENGINEERINGChina’s Tiangong-1 space station is currently out of control and expected to fall back to Earth next year. But not in the remote place where many other spacecraft end their days.
Explorers and adventurers often look for new places to conquer now that the highest peaks have been climbed, the poles reached and vast oceans and deserts crossed. Some of these new places are called the poles of inaccessibility. Two of them are particularly interesting.
Written by Stephen Clark
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will remain at Ceres for the rest of its mission, heading closer to the asteroid belt’s largest resident than ever before to obtain new measurements of ice, salts and a tenuous intermittent atmosphere detected around the dwarf planet, the space agency announced Thursday.
Written by PSI staff
In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos gets warning of deep-rooted climate of abuse also at Washington Post. Ex-NASA climatologist, Dr Duanne Thresher’s open letter to the media mogul shows just how deep-rooted and evil is this culture of hate in both Bezos businesses.
Written by David Wojick PhD
The three US National Academies — of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — are jointly upping their climate change activism. Collectively called NASEM, they are not satisfied with producing a steady stream of alarmist reports, videos and workshops.
Written by Sophie Gallagher
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In their quest to take over the world and replace human beings, robots were missing one always crucial element – the ability to perform tasks quite as effectively as people do. But now all that has changed.
A team of robotics engineers in the USA have made an “important breakthrough” in developing a flexible skin that allows machines to feel what they are doing (and when it is going wrong) so they can rectify the situation
In order for robots to perform delicate tasks, such as cooking, housework, or surgery, they need to know whether a small or delicate object is slipping out of their grasp.
Written by Sarah Malm & Charlie Moore
An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck off southern Japan on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said. The quake struck 424 miles off Japan’s island of Kyushu at a depth of 6.2 miles, the agency said. There are no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
Written by Dr Ananya Mandal, MD
According to new research, people can be aware that they are dead after their heart has stopped beating. This suggests that the brain and consciousness seems to work even after the body has stopped working. Dr Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City, and his team looked at people who had cardiac arrest and then were successfully resuscitated back to life.
Written by PSI staff
New study titled ‘The Interactive Effects of Elevated CO2 and Solar Radiation Intensity on Two Coccolithophore Strains’ demonstrates that more carbon dioxide can be shown to increase growth of various forms of phytoplankton.
Written by Shivali Best
The discovery of a set of 9.7-million-year-old teeth has led archaeologists to raise questions about the commonly believed ‘out-of-Africa’ theory of human origins.
The teeth, which were discovered in a former bed of the Rhine river, don’t resemble those of any other human species found in Europe or Asia. The find suggests that contrary to popular belief, Europe may be the cradle of humanity.
Written by Joseph E Postma
The “steel greenhouse” concept for demonstrating the radiative greenhouse effect has been debunked many times on this blog (the least reason of which its advocates attempt to conserve temperature instead of energy!), but the solution for it sitting in an ambient-temperature environment has never been demonstrated.
Written by Kenneth Richard
Do Supernova Events Cause Extreme Climate Changes?
“Global warming will not be reduced by reducing man-made CO2 emissions” — Dr. William Sokeland
Written by James Gallagher
Image copyright@ SPLBritish scientists have worked out how many changes it takes to transform a healthy cell into a cancer. The team, at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, showed the answer was a tiny handful, between one and 10 mutations depending on the type of tumour.
Written by Daily Mail
Cassini has revealed a killer cloud high in the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan. Although the craft plunged to its death several weeks ago, NASA teams are still analysing its data. The latest discovery reveals a toxic hybrid ice in a wispy cloud high above the south pole of Saturn’s largest moon.
Written by Tony Heller
Prior to 1965, October 18 was a very warm day in the US, but after 1965 temperatures plummeted and never recovered.
Written by Cheyenne Macdonald
You might not need a telescope to spot Uranus tonight. The ice giant planet will reach opposition on Thursday, bringing it to the closest point in its orbit to Earth.
Written by BBC
Image copyright: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARYFrench scientists say they may have found a potential cause of dyslexia which could be treatable, hidden in tiny cells in the human eye.