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NASA urged to rejoin the hunt for gravitational waves
from New Scientist - News
(2016-8-16 19:40)
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US National Academies has assessed US astrophysics schemes and is calling for NASA to rejoin a gravitational wave hunting mission, despite budget problems
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Without oxygen from ancient moss you wouldn’t be alive today
from New Scientist - News
(2016-8-16 4:01)
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The earliest terrestrial plants, such as moss, made a surprising contribution to the levels of oxygen in the atmosphere some 400 million years ago
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Are you a nice person? Brain scans can tell how generous you are
from New Scientist - News
(2016-8-16 4:00)
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People who are more empathetic have more activity in the brain’s “generosity centre”, and are faster at learning how to reward others in a game
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Herpes infections are worse if contracted at the end of the day
from New Scientist - News
(2016-8-16 4:00)
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Our circadian rhythms affect our ability to fight off infection, and a study in mice suggests shift workers may be particularly vulnerable to viruses
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Does eating more salt prevent migraines and severe headaches?
from New Scientist - News
(2016-8-16 1:30)
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For the first time, there’s evidence suggesting dietary sodium can affect migraines, but salt comes with a strong health warning
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Mating stars hide their modesty behind a thick veil of dust
from New Scientist - News
(2016-8-16 1:00)
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Astronomers got their best ever look at merging stars when a pair called V1309 Scorpii got together in 2008, but now they have gone into hiding
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World’s oldest ocean crust dates back to ancient supercontinent
from New Scientist - News
(2016-8-16 0:00)
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The rock at the bottom of the eastern Mediterranean is 340 million years old, and could yield secrets of the formation? and breakup ? of the ancient Pangaea continent
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Black hole made in the lab shows signs of quantum entanglement
from New Scientist - News
(2016-8-16 0:00)
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Efforts to study black holes in the lab with versions that trap sound instead of light may have revealed a key prediction made by Stephen Hawking
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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars
from New Scientist - News
(2016-8-15 23:00)
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The 30 Doradus nebula is forming stars in a flat-out sprint, outpacing the local Milky Way by four orders of magnitude. Bring sunblock
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104-year-old cyclist named world’s greatest centenarian athlete
from New Scientist - News
(2016-8-15 21:17)
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Robert Marchand from France has the best athletic performance for a person over the age of 100, showing a physical decline of less than 8 per cent per decade
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