Month: April 2016

  • Light Flash Spotted at Colliding Black Holes

    Light Flash Spotted at Colliding Black Holes

    There’s been a longstanding question about what happens when black holes collide. Scientists have debated this and many assumed there wouldn’t be much that occurred. That was until NASA’s Fermi Gamma ray telescope witnessed something completely different. There was a high level of energy light that formed a second after a pair of black holes…

  • Hawking and the Nano Spacecraft

    Hawking and the Nano Spacecraft

    Steven Hawking, a world-renowned Cosmologist, is joining up with a group of philanthropists and scientists. The reason for this power team is that this group believes that they may be able to reach a distant star system much faster with their dream of nano-spacecraft. They’re hoping to see their dream a reality within a single…

  • Mouse Embryo’s In Space

    Mouse Embryo’s In Space

    An experiment carried out on board China’s SJ-10, has succeeded in its goal of reproduction in space. They are now the first group of scientist to successfully develop two-cell mouse embryo’s, in space. Just 80 hours after launch, the recoverable satellite, SJ-10 managed to overcome a major biological hurdle in reproduction in space. The SJ-10 was China’s first micro-gravity…

  • NASA’s Dragon Delivers

    NASA’s Dragon Delivers

    The SpaceX Dragon was scheduled to dock at around 7am on April 10th 2016. The Dragon has safely made it to the International Space Station carrying three and a half tons of cargo for the astronauts stationed there. Among the cargo is the BEAM (Biglow Expandable Activity Module) and Microchannel Diffusion. The BEAM is scheduled…

  • Satellite Finds Fungi – Climate Research

    Satellite Finds Fungi – Climate Research

    A team of NASA scientists has developed a way to locate underground fungus from space. The information gathered from finding the fungus will help scientists predict how forests are altered due to climate change. Hidden under the soil of each and every forest lies a network of fungus that lives in mutual harmony with their…