Image via Wikipedia On April 28th of 2003 the spacecraft GALEX, which means Galaxy Evolution Explorer, was sent into space with the mission of observing galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history through an incorporated telescope. This mission which was originally planned to last only 29 months was extended and is [...]
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1st online editions of Voyage of the Beagle have been made available
Image by cpurrin1 via Flickr The 1st editions of Voyage of the Beagle have been recently made available in the site darwin-online.org.uk were you can find the complete work of Charles Darwin. This site has the complete publications of Darwin, thousand of handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalog ever published besides [...]
The jelly is suspected to be source of all animals
The jellyfish are marine invertebrates that can be found in any ocean of the world and even in some fresh waters. Contrary to what people think the jelly is not a fish but an organism that belongs to the class Scyphozoa. One special jelly is creating a lot of turbulence in the science world (the [...]
Two extinct plants discovered in Australia
Image via Wikipedia These days it’s amazing to ear about finding plants that are thought to be extinct since most of the news just report cases of disappearing species. This time at Cape York, far northern Australia, two thought to be extinct plants were found. The Rhaphidospora cavernarum which is a one and a half [...]
The fatest evolving animal in the world is a living fossil
The Tuatara Lizards from New Zealand are limited to two species which are the only surviving members of the Sphenodontidae family that flourished 200 million years ago. This small lizard might measure up to 80 cm. from head to tail and besides resembling to lizards it’s also equally related to the snakes. The Tuatara hibernate [...]
NASA’s SOHO spacecraft and its best pictures
Image via Wikipedia On 2 of December, 1995 a spacecraft called SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) was launched into space with the mission of studying the internal structure of the Sun, it’s extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind which is a stream of ionized gas that blows continuously outward through the [...]
Smallest known Black Hole discovered by NASA scientists
Image from Wikipedia Has you might imagine there are several sizes of black holes and this one besides being the smallest ever found still digests everything around him because of the huge gravitational force that even draws light into it. The previous record holder would weight 6.3 Suns which isn’t much when we know black [...]
When taking risk decisions older people use different parts of the brain than younger people.
Image from Wikipedia A study has been published at Oxford Journals with the objective of determining the changes on the neural activities that are associated with risk taking decisions when aging. Different areas of the brain when taking risk decisions are activated between young adults and older adults and also older adults display a significantly [...]
Some gene mutations can boost schizophrenia risk
Image from Wikipedia A new research suggests that rare gene mutations can increase the risk of schizophrenia. Studies show that schizophrenics share some of the same kind of rare gene variations. These kinds of genes modifications normally tend to gather around important genes that influence the brain development like the ones that control neuronal growth [...]
Prehistoric crocodile found in Brazil’s coast
Brazilian palenontologists discovered a fossil in the coastal Mina Poty area at northeastern Brazil of a new marine crocodile specie that is 62 million years old which means that this reptile that belonged to the Dynosauridae group survived the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This specie was named Guarinisuchus munizi which means “Sea [...]