Category: Science
NASA Recovers Planet-Hunter Kepler From Emergency
During a scheduled contact on April 7, mission operations engineers discovered that Kepler had entered the Emergency Mode (EM) – the lowest operational mode which...
New NASA Images Show Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Shrinking Continuously
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have produced new maps of Jupiter that show the continuing changes in its famous Great Red Spot where winds are blowing...
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Strange Looking ‘Floating Spoon’ On Mars
This long spoon-shaped rock appears to hover over Mars in a photo taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Of course, it isn’t actually a kitchen utensil. The spoon-shaped...
Eight Countries Arrive Abuja For Pan-African Science Olympiad
Participants from eight African countries have so far arrived Abuja for the Pan-African Science Olympiad 2015, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The Olympiad, which...
Scientists Stimulate Mouse Brains With Wireless ‘Charger’
Turning on a light inside a mouse’s head can help scientists map brain function. It’s easy to implant an LED in a mouse’s brain, but how to power it?...
Rwanda Hosts Continental Workshop On Climate Change
Rwanda will be hosting the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) workshop, that aims at strengthening Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions...
Artificial Wombs: The Coming Era Of Motherless Births?
Scientifically, it’s called ectogenesis, a term coined by J.B.S. Haldane in 1924. A hugely influential science popularizer, Haldane did for his generation what Carl...
Hubble Telescope Captures Image Of Dying Star
A picture is worth a thousand words, and NASA’s Hubble telescope captured the death throes of a dying star, a process it says has taken tens of thousands of years. The...
Plants Exhibit ‘Animal-Like’ Signals Despite Lack Of Nervous System – Study
Although plants do not feel hunger or pain like animals, they are able to use signals that are linked with animals when they are under stress. For the new study...
