Published on Apr 11, 2019
The European Space Agency’s ExoMars spacecraft failed to find any traces of methane on the Red Planet during its hunt from April to August of 2018. This goes directly against recent positive reports of methane by ESA’s own Mars Express spacecraft and NASA’s Curiosity rover, which both saw methane in 2013. |SOURCE| ExoMars has a sensitive detector [...] Read more
Published on Apr 11, 2019
Thirteen hominin bones found in a cave are so unique that archaeologists have determined they stem from a distinct hominin species, although others question whether the researchers have enough evidence. |SOURCE| In 2007, archaeologist Armand Salvador Mijares found a curious bone buried in Callao Cave in the Philippine island of Luzon. Shortly [...] Read more
Published on Apr 11, 2019
The supermassive beast lies in a galaxy called M87 more than 50 million light-years away. |SOURCE| This is what a black hole looks like. A world-spanning network of telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope zoomed in on the supermassive monster in the galaxy M87 to create this first-ever picture of a black hole. “We have seen what we thought [...] Read more
Published on Mar 19, 2019
Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen presents an alternative to fossil fuels, but purified water is a precious resource. A Stanford-led team has now developed a way to harness seawater – Earth’s most abundant source – for chemical energy. |SOURCE| By Erin I. Garcia de Jesus | Stanford researchers have devised a way to generate hydrogen fuel [...] Read more