A huge ball of fire was filmed crossing the sky in Britain. The dazzling meteor burned over South West England just after midnight on Thursday, with sightings in South Wales, Hertfordshire and West Sussex. UK Meteor Network (UKMON), which operates a network of 153 detection cameras recording meteors and fireballs over the UK, said the … Read more
Parts of Antarctica have actually gained ice over the past 20 years, new research reveals, although the continent is suffering significant losses due to global warming. The researchers say sea ice, pushed against the ice shelves by a change in regional wind patterns, may have helped protect those ice shelves from loss. Ice shelves are … Read more
Astronomers in Germany have spotted a fiery “nova explosion” of a white dwarf for the first time ever. Researchers observed the event, using data from the joint German-Russian eROSITA X-ray telescope, which is stationed in space about 900,000 miles away. The X-ray flash – dubbed YZ Reticuli – completely overexposed the center of eROSITA’s detector, … Read more
One day in late September, a box-shaped spacecraft weighing about half a ton will slam into an asteroid seven million miles from Earth at a speed of 15,000 mph, with the aim of propelling it into a new orbit. This suicide mission by a golf-cart-sized craft isn’t just a self-indulgent experiment dreamed up by NASA … Read more
Is death really reversible? Scientists find organ donor eyes could be ‘brought back to life’ in major breakthrough Donor eyes reacted even to dim light ‘as they do in the living eye’ Retina cells react to light and even communicate five hours after death If these extend to the brain, we could bring living things … Read more
Incredibly sharp image of a nearby galaxy captured by NASA’s new $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope demonstrates a huge leap forward in space photography NASA shared side-by-side images captured by its Webb and Spitzer telescopes Both show the Large Magellanic Cloud – a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way But the Webb image captures … Read more
Le virus de la grippe saisonnière pourrait être un descendant direct de la «grippe espagnole» de 1918 qui a provoqué une pandémie mondiale et tué jusqu’à 100 millions de personnes, selon une étude Le virus de la grippe humaine saisonnière « descend peut-être de la souche de la grippe espagnole de 1918 » Basé sur … Read more
Scientists studying the underside of the world’s largest ice cap in Antarctica have discovered a lake the size of a city. The lake, called Lake Snow Eagle, sits in a mile-deep canyon in the highlands of Antarctica’s Princess Elizabeth Land, a few hundred miles from the coast. The area of the lake is approximately 370 … Read more
Un nouveau gadget portable qui se fixe au bras peut mesurer la glycémie et la fatigue musculaire au gymnase et les niveaux d’alcool au pub. Créé en Californie, le prototype peut surveiller en continu trois statistiques de santé – les niveaux de glucose, d’alcool et de lactate – soit séparément, soit simultanément en temps réel. … Read more
Est-ce la raison pour laquelle nous agissons de manière irrationnelle lorsque nous sommes « affamés » ? Une étude montre que les vers affamés sacrifient le confort et prennent des décisions risquées pour obtenir un repas Des scientifiques ont étudié des vers pour comprendre pourquoi nous sommes irrationnels lorsque nous avons faim Les protéines des … Read more