Archive for November, 2008

Five undergraduates astronomy students at University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered a new Galaxy in whats called the “zone of avoidance.” Zone of avoidance is on the same plane as our own galaxy, its view is obscured by the clouds of dust that swirl about our own address in the universe. For this reason, professional astronomers and scientists around the world ignored that space, and they [...]

Researchers from Japan reported today that they discovered a drug composed of chemical compounds found in garlic that treats type 1 and 2 diabetes.

NASA scientist Jennifer Heldmann shares the most popular theory of how the Moon was formed. By first explaining how the Earth formed by accretion, Heldmann says the Moon formed from a “huge impact” that “whacked” the young Earth.

A group of aerospace engineers undergraduates from the University of Michigan have set a new world record for the longest flight ever by a fuel-cell powered plane. The plane flew for about 10 hours, 15 minutes and 4 seconds according to Gas2.com.

Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, STS-126 mission specialist, participates in the mission’s first session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 52-minute spacewalk, Piper and astronaut Steve Bowen (out of frame), mission specialist, worked to clean [...]

This is a great news for people who have Cholesterol especially “especially bad cholesterol”, a new study was performed by a collaboration between Dr. Nabil G. Seidah, Director of the Biochemical Neuroendocrinology Research Unit at the IRCM and Gaétan Mayer, a postdoctoral fellow, “shows for the very first time that the degradation by PCSK9 of the LDLR receptor, which is responsible [...]

Finally and for the first time, scientists from France, Germany and Hungary confirmed that Albert Einstein’s famous hypothesis e=mc2 is correct. Congratulation our great and famous physicist Einstein, after over a century we now confirmed your hypothesis. A collaboration between scientist from Europe using the World’s strongest supercomputers made them achieve their dream of achieving that [...]

Everybody get sick now and then right? and usually it goes away by taking some medicine or by its own. But there are symptoms that doctors advice people not to ignore when it occurs, and you should seek or contact your doctor immediately. The article was written by Dr. Elaine Alpert, for Reader’s Digest.com