The U.S. Air Force’s E-4B, otherwise known as the “doomsday plane” may be able to withstand the force of a nuclear detonation. This mostly windowless Boeing 747 was designed during the Cold War, and it indeed looks like a blast from the past, according to CNBC’s Amanda Macias who recently got an inside look at the plane. …
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Pandas are known for their furry black-and-white markings, so wildlife experts were stunned to see an all-white panda with red eyes tramping through a bamboo forest in China last month. This wild giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is the first known albino of its kind. “Judging from pictures, the panda is an albino, 1 to 2 years old,” …
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Deep beneath the North Sea, scientists have discovered a fossilized forest that could hold traces of prehistoric early humans who lived there around 10,000 years ago, before the land slipped beneath the waves a few thousand years later. The discovery gives the researchers new hope in their search for “lost” Middle Stone Age — or Mesolithic — …
NASA researchers have unveiled a new treasure map of the universe, and — thanks to a neutron-star-hunting telescope aboard the International Space Station — X-ray marks the spot. The new all-sky map, uploaded May 30 to NASA’s website, shows what the cosmos looks like in high-energy X-ray light. X-rays are among the most energetic forms of light in …
There’s a binary star system out there in the Milky Way, and it’s acting very weird. “AG Draconis,” as astronomers call it, is made up of two stars: a relatively cool giant and a relatively hot white dwarf — the stellar corpse of a low- to medium-size star. They’re 16,000 light-years away from Earth. (A light-year is the distance light travels …
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Rainbows form as sunlight shines on droplets of moisture in the Earth’s atmosphere. The droplets act like prisms, “refracting” or separating light into its component colors and sending them shooting off at a range of angles between 40 and 42 degrees from the direction opposite the sun. Of course, rainbows are no longer scientifically mysterious. …
Perhaps you’ve noticed that, in bowls of mixed nuts, the Brazil nuts always seem to be sitting on top. This is known as the “Brazil nut effect,” and the seemingly mundane phenomenon is actually one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in many-body physics the science that describes large quantities of interacting objects. Among an assortment …
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Before the 20th century, there were no effective treatments for infections caused by bacteria, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, rheumatic fever and urinary tract infections. But in 1929, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered the first true antibiotic, penicillin, ushering in a new age of medicine. Since then, scientists have found dozens of antibiotics, which fight bacteria in …
In April, the TV news program “60 Minutes” aired a report about fentanyl, a synthetic opioid much more potent than heroin that’s been implicated in thousands of overdose deaths in the United States. During one segment, Justin Herdman, a U.S. Attorney in Cleveland, wore gloves as he showed journalist Scott Pelley seized bags of fentanyl …
A farmer in Russia has uncovered the remains of three elite members of a nomadic tribe from 2,500 years ago. A horse’s skull and harness were found buried alongside one of the individuals. Three 2,500-year-old burials of elite members of a group known as the Sarmatians have been discovered within a kurgan (a large mound) …
A gas giant, also known as a jovian planet after the planet Jupiter, gaseous giant, or giant planet, is a large planet which has at least ten times the mass of Earth, located in the outer solar system. Unlike terrestrial planets whose composition is rocky, gas giants have a mostly gaseous composition, such as hydrogen and helium. They do have some …
Filling your plate with ultraprocessed foods really does appear to lead people to eat more and gain weight, according to a new study. Ultraprocessed foods refers to products that tend to go through a number of manufacturing steps to be produced, and contain ingredients that result from industrial-food manufacturing, such as hydrogenated oils, high-fructose corn syrup, flavoring agents and …
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