NASA will allow SpaceX to use its cutting-edge technology which involves refueling the Dragon 2, the first manned spacecraft designed by the Elon Musk company, within 35 minutes before launch, with the crew already on board. This August 18, 2018, Kathy Lueders, director of the Commercial Crew Program, from where the ship will be launched… Read more »
For the first time, a group of researchers have created lungs in a laboratory and successfully transplanted them to a pig. These bioengineered lungs, described in Science Translational Medicine , developed healthy blood vessels that allowed pigs to live for several weeks after surgery without medical complications. Unlike other cases of lungs transplanted into mice that only lasted… Read more »
In a video that went viral in social networks, we can see the moment in which a woman in China gets a scare inside her car after her phone exploded while it was on the dashboard . In the video you can see how her phone explodes and starts to burn a few inches away from her as she drives…. Read more »
Scientists at Yale University were trying to breed a group of mice with morbid obesity. However, in doing so they edited two genes that, in turn, seemed to protect mice from weight gain, despite consuming a high-fat diet. The team of experts, led by cardiology professor Anne Eichmann and associate research scientist Feng Zang, made many… Read more »
More sicknesses have been reported across the United States in two outbreaks of the cyclospora parasite, federal health officials said on Thursday. In less than a week, the number of reported cases of illnesses from eating McDonald’s salads increased from 61 to 163. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the last count on Thursday:… Read more »
The name of the company is Sooam Biotech. It is, they say, the company with the most advanced dog cloning technology in the world, but that same system that is now proving its effectiveness in dogs could soon spread to other animal species. The cloning of dogs is for now a limited market niche, but this company… Read more »
Astronomers operating the network of 27 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescopes have made the first radio telescope detection of an object with planetary mass beyond our Solar System. The object, with a mass 12.7 times greater than that of Jupiter, has a surprisingly powerful magnetic field and yet it is a solitary body that travels… Read more »
On the morning of July 25, the CHIME radio telescope in Canada picked up a burst of radio – or FRB, which stands for ‘fast radio burst’ – of low frequency, whose origin is unknown and is one of the strangest signals known to man. CHIME is a powerful set of radio telescopes installed in British Columbia, Canada, and its name comes from the acronym ‘Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment’. The fast radio bursts or FRB is a… Read more »
A study reveals that the white matter in the brains of female soccer players have more alterations due to the impact of the ball against the head than those of male players. The study, was conducted by researchers at the Albert Einstein Institute of Medicine in New York and has been published in the journal of… Read more »
Two Australian researchers from the University of Melbourne, Andrew Pask and Mark Green, claim that certain chemicals found in plastics are responsible for the size of the male genitalia being reduced and that more and more males are born with defects in that organ. According to The Sydney Morning Herald , the researchers based their findings on… Read more »
