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JUN 03, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are on a constant search for exoplanets that have the potential to support life. One of the things we look f ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 26, 2016Health & Medicine
Picture this scene. It is a blistering hot late-July day, so hot that even the shade seems to melt away. Pink-skinned ch ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 26, 2016Space & Astronomy
Space is so amazingly vast that it’s just about impossible to study everything in a short period of time. That&rsq ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 23, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have announced finding what they believe is the first known White Dwarf Pulsar. Using the Southern African L ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 18, 2016Health & Medicine
While the intestines are potentially the star players of the digestive system, they also play a role in immune homeostas ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
A lot of mystery surrounds the existence of something known as a low surface brightness (LSB) galaxy. These are essentia ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 16, 2016Space & Astronomy
Aboard the International Space Station, the floating laboratory that orbits our planet, are a number of international as ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 15, 2016Space & Astronomy
Last month, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 26th anniversary of use in space. Hubble is certainly aging, but s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 13, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have observed a gassy Jupiter-like exoplanet in the further reaches of our galaxy that appears to be unusual ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 12, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Kepler mission has been on the hunt for rogue exoplanets throughout the galaxy for over 7 years, and throug ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 07, 2016Space & Astronomy
It’s not too often that astronomers get the opportunity to observe supernovas; they happen at random, unpredictabl ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 05, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Google engineered the first self-driving car, and now scientists have engineered the first self-driving surgical robot. ...MAY 01, 2016Earth & The Environment
A new reef has been discovered within the mouth of the Amazon river where the mighty waters empty into the Caribbean and ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 25, 2016Neuroscience
When a person views an image or reads a word, the brain reacts to process that input. Recent research shows however that ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 23, 2016Space & Astronomy
Is Jupiter’s largest moon, Europia, hotter than astronomers originally predicted? Although the moon is far ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 23, 2016Genetics & Genomics
For decades, linguists have questioned the origin of Yiddish, the millennium-old language of Ashkenazic Jews. Now, the G ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 22, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists have long had the interest in Earth-like exoplanets because it’s thought that exoplanets like Earth are ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 18, 2016Space & Astronomy
Brown dwarf stars are somewhat of a mystery to scientists because we know so little about them. They’re significan ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 16, 2016Space & Astronomy
Astrophysicists from the University of Notre Dame have been peering down the viewfinder of Kilodegree Extremely Little T ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 13, 2016Space & Astronomy
Physicist Stephen Hawking, along with billionaire Yuri Milner are proposing a new method of space travel that involves s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 11, 2016Space & Astronomy
Scientists have their eyes on a massive Earth-like exoplanet that was discovered in 2011 called 55 Cancri e in the Cance ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 06, 2016Space & Astronomy
Using a relatively new 10-meter space telescope dubbed RadioAstron, along with data from various Earth-based observatori ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 05, 2016Space & Astronomy
It was not long ago that NASA shared some incredible imagery of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, showing us stars cap ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 04, 2016Space & Astronomy
NASA recently spent some time using the Hubble Space Telescope to capture a massive portrait of our own Milky Way galaxy ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
JUN 03, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are on a constant search for exoplanets that have the potential to support life. One of the things we look f
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 26, 2016
Health & Medicine
Picture this scene. It is a blistering hot late-July day, so hot that even the shade seems to melt away. Pink-skinned ch
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 26, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Space is so amazingly vast that it’s just about impossible to study everything in a short period of time. That&rsq
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 23, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have announced finding what they believe is the first known White Dwarf Pulsar. Using the Southern African L
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 18, 2016
Health & Medicine
While the intestines are potentially the star players of the digestive system, they also play a role in immune homeostas
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
A lot of mystery surrounds the existence of something known as a low surface brightness (LSB) galaxy. These are essentia
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 16, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Aboard the International Space Station, the floating laboratory that orbits our planet, are a number of international as
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 15, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Last month, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 26th anniversary of use in space. Hubble is certainly aging, but s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 13, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers have observed a gassy Jupiter-like exoplanet in the further reaches of our galaxy that appears to be unusual
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 12, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Kepler mission has been on the hunt for rogue exoplanets throughout the galaxy for over 7 years, and throug
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 07, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It’s not too often that astronomers get the opportunity to observe supernovas; they happen at random, unpredictabl
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 05, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Google engineered the first self-driving car, and now scientists have engineered the first self-driving surgical robot.
...
MAY 01, 2016
Earth & The Environment
A new reef has been discovered within the mouth of the Amazon river where the mighty waters empty into the Caribbean and
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 25, 2016
Neuroscience
When a person views an image or reads a word, the brain reacts to process that input. Recent research shows however that
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 23, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Is Jupiter’s largest moon, Europia, hotter than astronomers originally predicted? Although the moon is far
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 23, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
For decades, linguists have questioned the origin of Yiddish, the millennium-old language of Ashkenazic Jews. Now, the G
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 22, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have long had the interest in Earth-like exoplanets because it’s thought that exoplanets like Earth are
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 18, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Brown dwarf stars are somewhat of a mystery to scientists because we know so little about them. They’re significan
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 16, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Astrophysicists from the University of Notre Dame have been peering down the viewfinder of Kilodegree Extremely Little T
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 13, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Physicist Stephen Hawking, along with billionaire Yuri Milner are proposing a new method of space travel that involves s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 11, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have their eyes on a massive Earth-like exoplanet that was discovered in 2011 called 55 Cancri e in the Cance
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 06, 2016
Space & Astronomy
Using a relatively new 10-meter space telescope dubbed RadioAstron, along with data from various Earth-based observatori
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 05, 2016
Space & Astronomy
It was not long ago that NASA shared some incredible imagery of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, showing us stars cap
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 04, 2016
Space & Astronomy
NASA recently spent some time using the Hubble Space Telescope to capture a massive portrait of our own Milky Way galaxy
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard