New images snapped by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) indicate the moon’s crust is actually being stretched - forming minute valleys in a few small areas on the lunar surface. Scientists hypothesize this geologic activity occurred less than 50 million years ago, which is considered recent compared to the moon’s age of more than 4.5 billion years. Read [...]
Continue reading …It’s an ancient legend: Located in scattered areas of Earth are openings, doorways, gates, if you will, to some unseen underworld, also variously referred to as hell, Hades and Dante’s Inferno. Researchers exploring the famous Twins Cave outside of Jerusalem have uncovered evidence of some pagan rituals, dating back to the Roman Empire, that suggest [...]
Continue reading …Long-unrecognized lettering confirms that first-century artifacts found within an ancient Jerusalem tomb are the earliest representations of Christianity ever found, researchers say. Two Hebrew scholars who examined photographs showing the inside of the tomb agree that markings on an ossuary — a box made to hold human remains — are stylized letters that spell out [...]
Continue reading …Doctor Who’s Sonic Screwdriver has come one step closer to reality as a new prototype built by physicists at the University of Dundee, can manipulate objects, lifting, moving and turning them using sound waves. The team behind the device are hoping that the findings can be used by the medical community to better enable surgeons [...]
Continue reading …A small bronze statue dating back nearly 2,000 years may be that of a female gladiator, a victorious one at that, suggests a new study. If confirmed the statue would represent only the second depiction of a woman gladiator known to exist. The gladiator statue shows a topless woman, wearing only a loincloth and a [...]
Continue reading …Starships, warp speed, transporters, phasers. Think Star Trek technology is only the stuff of fiction? Think again. Dr. Peter Jansen, a PhD graduate of the Cognitive Science Laboratory at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has developed a scientific measurement device based on the tricorders used by Captain Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy and other space adventurers on [...]
Continue reading …The surface of Mars comprised a number of lava flows and other signs of effusive volcanism. Although models suggest that explosive volcanism should also have produced extensive deposits, direct evidence for large-scale explosive volcanism on Mars has been scarce. A new investigation by Briony Horgan and James F. Bell III of the mineralogy of dark [...]
Continue reading …Jupiter might be having a change of heart. Literally. New simulations suggest that Jupiter’s rocky core has been liquefying, melting, and mixing with the rest of the planet’s innards. With this new data, astronomers hope to better explain a recent puzzling discovery of a strange planet outside of our solar system. “It’s a really important [...]
Continue reading …Bad news for sky watchers and anyone wanting to witness the beauty of the heavens. Over half of the British population can now only see ten or fewer of the brightest stars which lie within the Orion constellation. Light pollution is now so bad in the UK that most of the population can see just a third of [...]
Continue reading …Neighbor star Fomalhaut may have a second planet orbiting near its far-out ring. The system is a model for understanding how planets form and whether they grow in place or migrate outward. The discovery was made with new observatory that is sensitive to light in the millimeter and submillimeter wavelenths. Astronomers believe they have found [...]
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