Category: Science
It Took Doctors 2 Years to Figure Out Why a Woman Couldn’t Stop Vomiting
The 23-year-old woman arrived at the hospital and could not stop vomiting – again. For almost two years, the young woman had visited the emergency…
Scientists Reveal The Most Distant Galaxy We’ve Ever Found
A galaxy whose light has traveled nearly 13.5 billion years to reach us has just been confirmed as the earliest galaxy found to date. By…
How Sensor-Dangling Helicopters Can Help Beat the Water Crisis
After weeks of near-constant rain and flooding, California is finally drying out—but hopefully not getting too dry, because the state needs all the rain it can get…
There’s a ‘Lost City’ Deep in The Ocean, And It’s Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen
Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom. Their creamy carbonate…
This Island Appeared Out of Nowhere, With Life Forms Never Seen Before
When a new island arose from the South Pacific in 2015, it created an unprecedented opportunity not just for geologists and volcanologists, but for biologists…
Archaeologists Find Hidden Ruins of ‘Complete’ Roman-Era City in Egypt
Egyptian archaeologists said Tuesday they had discovered an 1,800-year-old “complete residential city from the Roman-era” in the heart of the southern city of Luxor. The…
Hypertension Drug Shown to Extend Lifespan And Slow Aging in Animals
The hypertension drug rilmenidine has been shown to slow down aging in worms, an effect that in humans could hypothetically help us live longer and…
Astronomers Just Discovered a ‘Bear’ on Mars
Facial pareidolia is the human tendency or illusion of seeing facial structures in an everyday objects – such as seeing the “man in the Moon,”…
‘Extraordinarily Close’ Asteroid About to Zoom Past Earth, NASA Says
A truck-sized asteroid will pass near Earth on Thursday in one of the closest approaches to our planet ever recorded, NASA said, emphasizing that it…
Ripples in Space-Time Could Actually Reveal When Time Began
The propagation of gravitational waves through matter could reveal the ripples in space-time generated by the Big Bang. Two plasma physicists used the propagation of…