Category: Discoveries
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Ocean Heating is Doubling
Researchers from Nature Climate Change have announced that the oceans heat absorption has doubled over the last eighteen years. Since 1865, we’ve increased the heat uptake that has occurred. This is causing coral bleaching in warmer regions and the heat has risen 700 meters deep into the ocean. As the water heats, it also is…
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Water Bears in Space
There is a belief that nothing can survive in space. Scientists though have discovered new facts about tardigrades. These “water bears” have 1/6 of foreign genomes in them that allow them to survive in space. This is without any kind of protection and many studies suggest that there might be some alien DNA in these…
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US Space Rocket Debris Found
Here’s A Unique Find – Space Rocket Debris A quite large section of a rocket that is American in nature was found floating in the sea near the Isles of Scilly. Scientists and Coast Guard believe it is likely the unmanned rocket that exploded in Florida in June. Called The SpaceX Falcon 9,the rocket blew…
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3D Photos of Pluto Show Ice Volcanoes?
Ice Volcanoes Unique To Pluto NASA’s recent 3D images of Pluto show two mountains on the dwarf planet that could be ice volcanoes. Scientists called the objects cryovolcanoes and say that the formations could have been active in the recent past. Pluto’s ice volcanoes cover a huge area and rise to over 3.5 miles…
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(Video) Finding Dark Matter – The Race Is On
Will We Find Dark Matter On Earth? We usually think of dark matter out in space, at least I do. But if you think about it, if dark matter is out there … should it not be here on Earth as well? That’s what the scientists in the below video thought, so they set up…
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Cosmic Neutrinos Have Been Confirmed To Exist
Cosmic Neutrinos – so what the heck are they? When I was in high school, it was difficult enough to understand protons, neutrons and electrons. Add in a periodic chart, and with some valance numbers you could actually figure out the relationship between the various elements. At least for the ones we understood at…