They Spent 40 Days Underground. Their Leader Said It Felt Like 29.
Fifteen volunteers lived without clocks or daylight in a French cave. Their accounts reveal how differently time could feel underground.
Posts Tagged: science
Electric Eels Leap Out of the Water to Deliver a Stronger Shock
Laboratory experiments reveal how a defensive leap directs an electric eel’s shock through its target.
United States Has Its First Case Of The Virus That Emerged In China
The new virus that emerged in the city of Wuhan, China, has already spread to other Asian countries such as Taiwan and Japan. So far it has claimed six patients in China and seems to be dispersing to other parts of the world. Just a few weeks after its emergence in the Asian continent, the… Read more »
Mysterious Virus Detected In China Is Confirmed To Spread From Person To Person
China, and at least three more regions of the Asian continent, have had to deal with a mysterious pathogen in recent weeks that has already been identified as a new strain of coronavirus, from the same family of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). In a recent update, it has been confirmed that the virus is… Read more »
China’s Giant Telescope Made To Discover The Origin Of The Universe Is Finally Ready
China officially introduced its five hundred meter spherical opening radio telescope (FAST) this weekend and although it’s construction began in 2011 and was not completed until 2016, it has already made incredible discoveries. So far it is functioning without any drawbacks. This astronomical device is located in Pingtang in Guizhou, China, and is now operating at… Read more »
‘Aliens Could Be Living Among Us,’ Says British Astronaut
Helen Sharman visited the Soviet space station in 1991, at that time upon her return she declared that there could be all kinds of life forms. Britain’s first astronaut, Helen Sharman, said that aliens exist and that they could be living with us on Earth. Sharman, who in 1991 visited the Soviet Mir space station,… Read more »
Scientists Say We Can Reverse Aging Or At Least Slow It Down
What is the reason for aging? According to Professor David Sinclair, the configuration of proteins such as histones and chemical markers of methylation that turn on and off genes is a loss of information in our epigenome. Epigenetics causes various types of cells to perform their specific functions-this is what separates a cell from a… Read more »
Science Experiment Suggests That Plants Stressed By Drought Or Physical Damage Can Emit Squeals
Recently, a study published in the bioRxiv preprint database and retrieved by Live Science, suggests that, just as people when stressed let out a cry of anguish or a shriek, plants that are in the same situation do the same. Researchers at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, placed microphones near stressed drinking and tobacco… Read more »
The First Contraceptive Vaccine For Men Will Arrive In 2020
Scientists and researchers belonging to the Indian Medical Council (ICMR) announced that they are working on the first contraceptive vaccine for men and that they planning to launch it in the next seven months. This release date is far ahead of research in the United States and the United Kingdom because the ICMR seems to… Read more »
They Capture On Video A Prehistoric Shark Longer Than A Submarine
A team of marine biologists from Florida State University traveled to the Bahamas to do something that had never been achieved before: entering deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean to tag a shark that has remained virtually unchanged for 200 million years. It is the gray canebota. This shark (Hexanchus griseus), unlike its more evolved relatives, has six gills instead of five. It is a… Read more »