Five Newly released videos from NASA help describe the science of the sun and its effects on the solar system and Earth, while covering the areas of heliophysics: Space Weather, Solar Variability, the Heliosphere, Earth’s magnetosphere, and Earth’s upper atmosphere. NASA has just released five new videos called “Mysteries of the Sun”. The videos describe [...]
April 16, 2012
Computer Model Monitors Brain Pressure without Invasive Drilling
Researchers in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics have developed a new strategy to help treat and measure brain pressure without the invasive drilling of the skull. By using a computer model of how blood flows through the brain, doctors can calculate brain pressure from arterial blood pressure and an ultrasound measurement of the velocity of [...]
April 16, 2012
Computer Chip Cores Communicate by Networks Instead of Bus
As the demand for faster computers continues to rise, so does the demand for microchips that will power those computers. While the idea of adding cores sounds like a simple fix, we already see 6 and 8 core processors everywhere, researchers believe core adding has serious limitations and are working on new chips that will [...]
April 9, 2012
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Eruption in Extreme UV
The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory was able to capture this incredible video of a recent coronal mass ejection (CME) on April 7th from the sun’s surface. What makes this video unique is that it was captured in extreme ultraviolet light, giving it an otherworldly feel. It’s been widely reported that Sol is entering an active [...]
April 9, 2012
Entomologists Recreate Colony Collapse Disorder That Affects Bee Populations Worldwide
At the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), scientists have been trying to recreate the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder that has been affecting bee populations worldwide. CCD is yet largely unexplained and millions of bees were lost in recent years. Bees are a very important part of the pollination process in crops worldwide. Two new [...]
April 9, 2012
Cretaceous Period Sankofa Pyrenaica Fossilized Eggs Are Unusually Shaped
High in the Pyrenean mountains of Spain, paleontologists found hen-shaped dinosaur eggs sticking out of ancient sandstone. The eggs, that date back to 70 million years, were laid by a yet unknown dinosaur, which paleontologists speculate was a small meat-eater. They think that it stood on the blurry divide between birds and dinosaurs. The [...]
April 5, 2012
Haemaphysalis Flava Hardy Enough to Survive Vacuum and Electron Beam
Haemaphysalis flava , a kind of tick, was observed under the intense rays of an electron scanning microscope and survived the experience. They may have just surpassed Tardigrades as the world’s hardiest animals, which can survive the vacuum and UV radiation of space. H. flava surpass Tardigrades by not being dehydrated to survive vacuum. They [...]
April 5, 2012
Feathered Yutyrannus Huali Specimen Found in China, Closely Related to Tyrannosaurus Rex
A newly discovered ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex was discovered recently in China. Yutyrannus huali was covered in feathers, was 30 feet long, and weighed 3,000 pounds. Y. huali isn’t as large as T. rex, which appeared 6 million years later, but it’s the largest feathered tyrannosaur that’s ever been discovered. Paleontologists think that this provides [...]
April 4, 2012
Million-Year-Old Ash in South African Cave Yields Evidence of Cooking
Ash was discovered in a South African cave, and this indicates that humans were cooking with fire one million years ago. This is the earliest use of fire but experts say that more proof is needed to conclude that humans were cooking with fire regularly. Francesco Berna, an archaeologist, at Boston University in Massachusetts, and [...]
April 4, 2012
Stickleback Fish Used Pre-Existing Genes to Go from Saltwater to Freshwater Environments
New research pinpoints to certain mutations that may have helped the stickleback, a tiny armored fish, to evolve quickly between saltwater and freshwater forms. Since the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, the ocean-dwelling three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) have repeatedly colonized freshwater streams and lakes. In the last ten generations, marine [...]
April 3, 2012
Physicists Use Cheap Colliders to Probe for Heavy photons
A three-week experiment is set to start on April 24th at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia, in which electrons will crash into a thin tungsten target 500 million times a second that will create a cascade of short-lived particles. Physicists of the Heavy Photon Search (HPS) are hoping to finds [...]
April 3, 2012
Third Pole Glacial Measuring Stations Will Give Monitor Glacier Health in Tibet
An international team of scientists is starting a long-term campaign to measure the overall health of the ice atop Tibet and its surrounding mountains. This is will them to measure the health of the world’s highest glaciers. In the region of Tibet, there are about 46,000 glaciers, and it’s known as Earth’s Third Pole, which [...]


























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