Asteroid 2014-JO25 passed Earth last Wednesday and is now moving away as expected. What was less expected was its size since it was twice NASA’s estimates. On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, asteroid 2014-JO25 passed the Earth’s periphery, about 1.8 million kilometers from our planet at its closest pass, about five times the distance that separates … Lire la suite
We know that virtual reality today allows all kinds of experiences. What if you could change gender for ten minutes? here is Be Boy, Be Girlan application recently presented to the public. Some people wonder what it would be like to change their gender, while some of them take action and modify their bodies directly. … Lire la suite
Anti-Obama statements, fight against abortion and climatoscepticism, the President of the United States Donald Trump plays on all the tables. It turns out that the conquest of space also interests him since the latter talks about dominating space. It may make you smile, but Donald Trump does have a plan! NASA and Space X want … Lire la suite
Discovered in the 1970s, the most famous of the australopithecus Lucy, who lived more than three million years ago, finally revealed the secrets of her death. This one would have intervened after the fall of a tree, and Lucy would have died on the spot. Lucy lived in Africa 3.18 million years ago. The most … Lire la suite
A team of researchers from the University of Southampton announces the discovery of six new animal species in underwater hot springs 2.8 kilometers deep in the southwest Indian Ocean. It was while exploring an area of the ocean floor 2,000 kilometers south of Madagascar that the research team led by Dr. Jon Copley spotted a … Lire la suite
In Portugal, a fossilized hominid skull trapped in a block of stone was unearthed in 2014 and dated at 400,000 years old. It could make it possible to elucidate the evolution of the ancestors of humans in Europe, in particular the origin of the Neanderthals. In the journal PNAS, an international team of researchers discovered … Lire la suite
The fact that a specific noise like hearing someone eating nearby is enough to push a person over the edge can be a sign of a real disease: misophonia. Very little known since very recently described, we now know a little more about this disease thanks to brain scans. A study about to be published … Lire la suite
Researchers announce the discovery of fossils of multicellular organisms, eukaryotes, dating back 1.56 billion years. A widely debated assertion that postpones the appearance of complex life on Earth by almost a billion years. » We claim that our discovery delays the appearance of macroscopic multicellular eukaryotes by almost a billion years.“, these are the words … Lire la suite
According to a Canadian public health expert, the Olympic Games to be held in August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) should be moved or delayed. His fear is that the epidemic will become truly global and that it will end up impacting countries whose insufficient health system will not be able to live up … Lire la suite
The Curiosity rover detected boron on the surface of Mars, indicating that at some point in its history, the red planet contained groundwater that could support long-term life. On Mars, Curiosity continues to explore Mount Sharp, in the center of the Gale crater formed at its base by lacustrine deposits. The latest data returned by … Lire la suite