CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – The commander of the International Space Station said Monday that losing a mirror during last week’s successful spacewalk was “a real bummer.” NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy said he has no idea how the small mirror fell off his left sleeve. The mirror band is very …
Read More »Russia denies nuclear incident after international body finds isotopes
MOSCOW / STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Russia said on Monday it had detected no signs of a radiation emergency, after an international body reported last week that sensors in Stockholm had detected unusually high levels of radioactive isotopes produced by nuclear fission. . FILE PHOTO: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov visits Dream …
Read More »A certain frequency of red light boosted people’s eyesight in a new study
Photo: ROBYN BECK / AFP (fake pictures) Scientists in the UK believe they may have found a cheap, low-tech way to help combat age-related vision loss. In a small clinical trial, people over 40 who were told to look at a deep red light for three minutes a day had …
Read More »Scientists found a vast and deep coral garden off the coast of Greenland
Image of the benthic sled. Coral garden habitat with a great diversity of animals, such as sponges, anemones, and feather starsPhoto: ZSL / GINR In the depths of the water, west of Greenland, scientists have discovered a previously unknown coral garden. They described the ecosystem in a new study Ppublished …
Read More »The South Pole heats up three times faster than the rest of the Earth
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty) Hot air does not reach Antarctica. as easily as the rest of the world but a new study It has discovered that not even the South Pole is safe from the influences of human-powered climate change. The study, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, found that, …
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