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Discoveries: Humans can detect one trillion smells: study

Discoveries: Humans can detect one trillion smells: study

The human nose can distinguish at least one trillion different odors, millions more than previously estimated, US researchers said Thursday. For decades, scientists accepted that humans could detect only 10,000…

Discoveries: Cosmologists Find ‘Tell-Tale’ Energy Pattern In The Cosmic Background, Confirming The Inflated Universe Theory

Discoveries: Cosmologists Find ‘Tell-Tale’ Energy Pattern In The Cosmic Background, Confirming The Inflated Universe Theory

In the scientific discipline known as cosmology — the study of the origin and evolution of our universe — finding “hard” evidence in support of theory is often hard to…

Scientists find echoes of Big Bang

Scientists find echoes of Big Bang

In a major discovery for understanding the origins of the universe, US scientists said Monday they have detected echoes of the Big Bang 14 billion years ago. The "first direct…

Medical Discoveries: Snail venom cuts pain in early lab trial

Medical Discoveries: Snail venom cuts pain in early lab trial

An experimental drug made from snail venom has shown early signs of promise in numbing pain, raising hopes in the hunt for new, non-addictive medications, researchers said Sunday. The drug,…

Discoveries: 3,000-year-old human remains found in Peru are first from pre-Incan culture

Discoveries: 3,000-year-old human remains found in Peru are first from pre-Incan culture

Peruvian officials announced on Friday that archeologists unearthed a burial site this week near the city of Cusco containing human remains that were more than 3,000 years old. According to…

Discoveries: Naturally Occurring Molecule Enhances Defense Mechanisms Against Neurodegenerative Diseases

Discoveries: Naturally Occurring Molecule Enhances Defense Mechanisms Against Neurodegenerative Diseases

Greetings, Naturally Occurring Molecule Enhances Defense Mechanisms Against Neurodegenerative Diseases Image of a C. elegans roundworm. The blue fluorescence highlights the tissue producing most N-acetylglucosamine. Credit: MPI for the Biology…

New Discoveries: Scientists find key ‘fat gene’

New Discoveries: Scientists find key ‘fat gene’

Geneticists said Wednesday they had pinpointed the most important obesity gene yet, throwing up a possible target for drugs to tackle a dangerous and growing epidemic. Mice bred to lack…

Discoveries: New ozone-depleting gases found in atmosphere

Discoveries: New ozone-depleting gases found in atmosphere

Worried scientists said Sunday they had found four new ozone-destroying gases in the atmosphere, most likely put there by humans in the last 50-odd years despite a ban on these…

Discoveries: These 7 Legged Frog Images by Brandon Ballengee are 100% Real

Discoveries: These 7 Legged Frog Images by Brandon Ballengee are 100% Real

Nature photographer Brandon Ballengee took these incredible photos by chemically “clearing and staining” terminally deformed, 7 legged frogs he found out in nature. He calls these images “reliquaries”, which the…

Science & Discoveries: Scientists Make Progress in Growing Organs From Stem Cells

Greetings, Scientists Make Progress in Growing Organs From Stem Cells Liver buds and brain organoids are among this year’s life-saving advances in growing spare human parts. By Kat McGowan| In…

Amazing Discovery…Reptile Death Match: Snake Devours Crocodile (Video)

Amazing Discovery…Reptile Death Match: Snake Devours Crocodile (Video)

Greetings, You win some and you lose some. The croc bit off more than he could chew and became the dinner!   Reptile Death Match: Snake Devours Crocodile (Video) A python…

Discoveries…Astronomers spot rare asteroid break-up

Discoveries…Astronomers spot rare asteroid break-up

Astronomers said Thursday they have witnessed the distant break-up of an asteroid, a rare event that was not caused by a violent space collision or a close encounter with the…

Scientific Discoveries — Big Discovery: Tiny Electron’s Mass More Precisely Measured

Scientific Discoveries — Big Discovery: Tiny Electron’s Mass More Precisely Measured

Greetings,     Big Discovery: Tiny Electron’s Mass More Precisely Measured Scientists have made the most precise measurement yet of the electron’s atomic mass. “It is a major technical improvement,” said…

Discoveries: Tomb of pharaoh’s stable master discovered in Egypt

Discoveries: Tomb of pharaoh’s stable master discovered in Egypt

Archaeologists have discovered the nearly 3,500-year-old tomb of a royal stable master from the pharaonic era in the famed temple city of Luxor, Egypt, the government said Tuesday The tomb…

30,000-year-old virus from permafrost is reborn

30,000-year-old virus from permafrost is reborn

French scientists said Monday they had revived a giant but harmless virus that had been locked in the Siberian permafrost for more than 30,000 years. Wakening the long-dormant virus serves…

Discoveries: Supernova SN 2014J Observations Challenge Old Assumptions

Discoveries: Supernova SN 2014J Observations Challenge Old Assumptions

The recent discovery and subsequent observations of the supernova SN 2014J have led researchers to realize that the primary ‘yardstick’ used by astronomers to measure cosmic distances may not be…

God allows the devil to peep into His technology before their destruction: NASA cries planetary ‘bonanza’ with 715 new worlds

NASA on Wednesday announced a torrent of new planet discoveries, hailing a "bonanza" of 715 worlds now known outside the solar system thanks to the Kepler space telescope's planet-hunting mission.…

Scientific Discoveries: It’s a solid… it’s a liquid… it’s a dropleton

Scientists said Wednesday they had discovered a new type of microscopic particle cluster that is found in solid materials but strangely behaves like a liquid. They called it the "dropleton".…

Health & Wellness: Researchers develop simple paper test for cancer

Greetings,     Researchers develop simple paper test for cancer U.S. researchers said Monday they have developed a simple, cheap paper test that could reveal within minutes whether a person has…

(Video Incl.)Wheelchair-Bound Woman Walks Again With a 3D Printed Exoskeleton

Greetings,    Wheelchair-Bound Woman Walks Again With a 3D Printed Exoskeleton By Daniel Terdiman   – In 1992, Amanda Boxtel suffered a vicious skiing accident that left her paralyzed from…

US Gov’t: Scientists investigating if Fukushima radiation contributed to unusual deaths and sickness in marine mammals — Similar illness seen in Japan and other countries on Pacific — Expect ‘hairless seals’ this spring

US Gov’t: Scientists investigating if Fukushima radiation contributed to unusual deaths and sickness in marine mammals — Similar illness seen in Japan and other countries on Pacific — Expect ‘hairless seals’ this spring

Greetings,      US Gov’t: Scientists investigating if Fukushima radiation contributed to unusual deaths and sickness in marine mammals — Similar illness seen in Japan and other countries on Pacific —…

David Suzuki: Trading Water For Fuel is Fracking Crazy

David Suzuki: Trading Water For Fuel is Fracking Crazy

This is a guest post by David Suzuki It would be difficult to live without oil and gas. But it would be impossible to live without water. Yet, in our…

And this is why colonial powers are scrambling for Africa…Sierra Leone unearths $6-million diamond

Sierra Leone said on Saturday it had discovered a diamond worth $6.2 million, declaring it one of the most precious finds of the past decade. The stone, dug up last…

Energy Independence: Thermoelectrics Get Big Boost From Nanoscale Pillars — Creating Electricty From Heat

Energy Independence: Thermoelectrics Get Big Boost From Nanoscale Pillars — Creating Electricty From Heat

Thermoelectric materials can see their performance radically improved via the utilization of an array of ‘nanoscale pillars’, according to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder. These tiny pillars,…

(Video Inlc.)All of nature is being stirred up…Strongest Solar Flare Yet Seen By NASA’s IRIS Captured In Beautiful New Image (VIDEO)

(Video Inlc.)All of nature is being stirred up…Strongest Solar Flare Yet Seen By NASA’s IRIS Captured In Beautiful New Image (VIDEO)

The strongest solar flare yet seen by NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) was recently captured in a beautiful new image. The flare, which erupted from the Sun at 2:40…

Researchers connect two monkeys via computer chips, allowing one to control the other’s movement

Greetings,      Researchers connect two monkeys via computer chips, allowing one to control the other’s movement Scientists have successfully used computer chips to link two monkeys together, allowing one monkey’s…

Sinkholes are appearing everywhere: There is no refuge from the anger of God & the people are perplexed over the Judgment!

Sinkholes are appearing everywhere: There is no refuge from the anger of God & the people are perplexed over the Judgment!

Greetings,    Because the judgment has become so intense and so widespread across the Western world, especially with the daughters of Babylon(England & America), their scientists, governments officials, and people…

Natural Discoveries: Honeybees may be making wild cousins ill

Natural Discoveries: Honeybees may be making wild cousins ill

Domesticated honeybees, reeling from disease, are probably infecting wild bumblebees whose pollination is vital for farmers around the world, a study said Wednesday. Bee populations, both wild and captive, are…

Energy Independence — Tiny Solar Thermal Power Plant Solves Gigantic Salt Problem

Energy Independence — Tiny Solar Thermal Power Plant Solves Gigantic Salt Problem

We’ve been getting all excited about Ivanpah and Crescent Dunes, two new gigantic concentrating solar thermal projects in California and Nevada. Now let’s turn our attention to a third solar…

Hubble space telescope capable of measuring rotation of nearby galaxy: NASA

Hubble space telescope capable of measuring rotation of nearby galaxy: NASA

Greetings,    Hubble space telescope capable of measuring rotation of nearby galaxy: NASA  U.S. astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to precisely measure the rotation rate of a neighboring…