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Russian-European Mars Orbiter Detects Hydrogen Chloride in Red Planet’s Atmosphere

Russian-European Mars Orbiter Detects Hydrogen Chloride in Red Planet’s Atmosphere

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The joint Russian-European Mars orbiter ExoMars-2016 has detected hydrogen chloride in the red planet’s atmosphere for the first time, pointing to unknown chemical processes, space agency Roscosmos…

Mysterious Element ‘Einsteinium’ Measured by Scientists For The First Time

Mysterious Element ‘Einsteinium’ Measured by Scientists For The First Time

MIKE MCRAE Dragons lurk at the edges of the map of known elements – atomic giants so delicate, and so scarce, they defy easy study. One such behemoth has finally…

Mummy with a gold tongue found in Egypt

Mummy with a gold tongue found in Egypt

By Owen Jarus – Live Science Contributor Could they speak to the gods? This 2,000-year-old mummy was buried with a golden tongue, likely to help the deceased speak in the afterlife.(Image: © Egyptian…

Mummies With Gold Tongue-Shaped Amulets Found in Ancient Temple Amid Quest for Cleopatra’s Tomb

Mummies With Gold Tongue-Shaped Amulets Found in Ancient Temple Amid Quest for Cleopatra’s Tomb

Mummies With Gold Tongue-Shaped Amulets Found in Ancient Temple Amid Quest for Cleopatra’s Tomb © CC BY-SA 2.0 / Franklin Heijnen / Egyptian mummyTECH by Svetlana Ekimenko1140 Excavations at the Temple of Taposiris Magna, about 45…

New discovery in Giza | Archeologists found funerary temple of Queen Neit

New discovery in Giza | Archeologists found funerary temple of Queen Neit

An Egyptian archeological mission discovered a funerary temple Saturday dating back over 4,000 years and belonging to Queen Nearit, wife of King Teti.…

California hospitals struggle with overflow of patients amid surge in cases

California hospitals struggle with overflow of patients amid surge in cases

Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration

Desalination Breakthrough Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration

Photo courtesy of Tyler Henderson/Penn State. AUSTIN, Texas — Producing clean water at a lower cost could be on the horizon after researchers from The University of Texas at Austin…

Another brick hitting against America’s glass wall of threatening China’s energy security as PetroChina makes HUGE gas find

Another brick hitting against America’s glass wall of threatening China’s energy security as PetroChina makes HUGE gas find

© Pexels.com Follow RT onPetroChina discovered a natural gas field with reserves in excess of 100 billion cubic meters, Chinese states news agency Xinhua reported this weekend. The agency cited…

Scientists capture octopus PUNCHING fish, apparently out of SPITE, in bizarre VIDEO

Scientists capture octopus PUNCHING fish, apparently out of SPITE, in bizarre VIDEO

In a rather apt discovery that sums up the frustrations of a year fraught with unforeseen dangers and unprecedented upheaval, scientists have observed octopuses punching fish, sometimes seemingly for no…

Astronomers discover ‘celestial highway’ that could rapidly speed up travel through our Solar System

Astronomers discover ‘celestial highway’ that could rapidly speed up travel through our Solar System

An illustration of the planets in our Solar System and the missions sent to explore them. © Jenny Mottar / NASA. Follow RT onAstronomers have discovered a “celestial highway” to…

Black holes can grow ‘hair’ when spinning fast enough in dramatic extension of Einstein’s theory of gravity

Black holes can grow ‘hair’ when spinning fast enough in dramatic extension of Einstein’s theory of gravity

Illustration: © Alexander Antropov from Pixabay Follow RT onAn international team of scientists has found that black holes can grow hair-like structures if they spin fast enough, providing fresh insights…

Fascism by any other name: New York lawmakers introduce bill to make Covid-19 vaccine MANDATORY. What about ‘my body, my choice’, critics wonder

Fascism by any other name: New York lawmakers introduce bill to make Covid-19 vaccine MANDATORY. What about ‘my body, my choice’, critics wonder

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is shown arriving at a statue unveiling in October in Manhattan. © Reuters / Carlo Allegri Proposed legislation to make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory in New York has come…

Mysterious new species of deep sea blob identified using only HD footage for 1st time in history (VIDEO)

Mysterious new species of deep sea blob identified using only HD footage for 1st time in history (VIDEO)

Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have identified a new species of ctenophore using only HD footage from a deep sea drone for the first time in…

Extracts from garlic, white onion and purple onion exert inhibitory effects against enzymes linked to diabetes and hypertension

Extracts from garlic, white onion and purple onion exert inhibitory effects against enzymes linked to diabetes and hypertension

by: Evangelyn Rodriguez (Natural News) Researchers at the Federal University of Technology in Nigeria evaluated the effects of the aqueous extract of garlic, white onion and purple onion on the activity of angiotensin-converting enzyme…

Massive Swarm of Eels Is The Most Fish Ever Recorded at The Bottom of The Ocean

Massive Swarm of Eels Is The Most Fish Ever Recorded at The Bottom of The Ocean

CARLY CASSELLA Before we start mining for precious metals in the darkness of the deep sea, we might try switching on the light first and observing our surroundings. In this…

Scientists detect ‘superbolt’ lightning strikes that hit with more power than entire US solar, wind energy capacity

Scientists detect ‘superbolt’ lightning strikes that hit with more power than entire US solar, wind energy capacity

Illustration: © Pexels / Frank Cone Follow RT onScientists have confirmed the existence of ‘superbolts’ that can be up to 1,000 times brighter than the average lightning strike, producing more…

Newly discovered MAGNETAR signal alters understanding of mysterious deep-space radio bursts

Newly discovered MAGNETAR signal alters understanding of mysterious deep-space radio bursts

A powerful X-ray burst erupting from a magnetar. © NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA) Follow RT onBursts of radio and X-ray activity from a star with an extremely…

Major HIV vaccine breakthrough as scientists reengineer immune cells in step towards possible cure

Major HIV vaccine breakthrough as scientists reengineer immune cells in step towards possible cure

FILE PHOTO. © Getty Images / TEK IMAGE / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Follow RT onA new vaccine approach using genetically engineered immune cells from a patient’s body has created a…

Mummy count continues to grow at ancient Egypt burial site

Mummy count continues to grow at ancient Egypt burial site

By Owen Jarus – Live Science Contributor  More than 100 found in shafts so far. A close-up showing one of the mummy filled coffins. The colors are remarkably well preserved despite the passage…

Strange ‘electron’ object discovered around binary black holes could shed light on dark matter & space-time mysteries

Strange ‘electron’ object discovered around binary black holes could shed light on dark matter & space-time mysteries

A team of astronomers have discovered a strange object that can exist around a pair of black holes. The discovery could help to unravel the identity of dark matter and…

Egypt showcases scores of 2,500-year-old coffins

Egypt showcases scores of 2,500-year-old coffins

PTSD, panic attacks, insomnia: 1 in 5 Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within three months, new study finds

PTSD, panic attacks, insomnia: 1 in 5 Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within three months, new study finds

A precautionary sign in the window of a business in New York City, September 2020. © Reuters / Carlo Allegri Follow RT onA sizeable portion of Covid-19 patients have been…

Scientists Discover Mysterious Radio Signal Coming From Source Inside Our Galaxy

Scientists Discover Mysterious Radio Signal Coming From Source Inside Our Galaxy

© Wikipedia / ESO/M. Kornmesser UK by Jason Dunn 0 42 Since their discovery in 2007, scientists have looked tirelessly to discover the sources of millisecond-duration ‘fast radio bursts’ that come from space.…

‘Secret Tunnels’ Beneath the Sphinx Stir Hopes for ‘Undiscovered Treasures’, Media Says

‘Secret Tunnels’ Beneath the Sphinx Stir Hopes for ‘Undiscovered Treasures’, Media Says

© CC BY 2.0 / Sam valadi / Giza Pyramids & Sphinx – EgyptTECH by Andrei Dergalin7163 While some scholars reportedly remain hopeful that the tunnels beneath the famous monument might lead to some new treasures,…

Egypt Announces Discovery of 59 Ancient Sarcophagi Preserved in Good Condition

Egypt Announces Discovery of 59 Ancient Sarcophagi Preserved in Good Condition

CAIRO (Sputnik) – Archeologists in Egypt have discovered 59 well-preserved sarcophagi aged to about 2,700 years old, with many more likely to be excavated from the same site, Egypt’s Tourism…

Scientists spot MONSTER black hole with 6 entire GALAXIES trapped in its gravity well

Scientists spot MONSTER black hole with 6 entire GALAXIES trapped in its gravity well

Six galaxies have been revealed to be trapped in a supermassive black hole that formed less than one billion years after the Big Bang, shedding light on how some of…

More water on Mars: Researchers say they’ve found SALTY LAKES under red planet’s polar ice cap

More water on Mars: Researchers say they’ve found SALTY LAKES under red planet’s polar ice cap

Polar ice caps of Mars are captured in this photo, taken in 1999 by the Hubble Space Telescope ©  Flickr/NASA Elon Musk’s plans to colonize Mars just got a shot in the…

Ice to see you: Saturn’s moon Enceladus spotted regenerating fresh coat of crystals in newly released PHOTOS

Ice to see you: Saturn’s moon Enceladus spotted regenerating fresh coat of crystals in newly released PHOTOS

© (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/LPG/CNRS/University of Nantes/Space Science Institute) Follow RT onThanks to enhanced imaging analysis techniques, researchers have discovered that the ice on Saturn’s moon Enceladus is fresh and regenerates,…

Egypt announces discovery of 14 more mummies, untouched for 2,500 years

Egypt announces discovery of 14 more mummies, untouched for 2,500 years

‘Should we really be disturbing these?’: Egypt announces discovery of 14 more mummies, untouched for 2,500 years The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of an…

Vitamin D supplements ‘could keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care’ as study finds hospital patients given 1mg per week had ‘significantly reduced’ need for life support

Vitamin D supplements ‘could keep Covid-19 patients out of intensive care’ as study finds hospital patients given 1mg per week had ‘significantly reduced’ need for life support

High doses of supplement were given to 50 patients in hospital with coronavirusOnly one (2%) admitted to ICU but all eventually recovered and were dischargedIn a comparable group not given…