Earth, over its 4.5 billion year history gone through major extinction. But there are some animal which survive those extinction and continue there existence on earth. There are creatures on Earth that make the existence of humans (44,000 years) little more than a comparative blip on the timeline of the planet’s eukaryotic history. Today we…
Antibodies from llamas could help in fight against COVID-19, study suggests
The hunt for an effective treatment for COVID-19 has led one team of researchers to find an improbable ally for their work: a llama named Winter. The team — from The University of Texas at Austin, the National Institutes of Health and Ghent University in Belgium — reports their findings about a potential avenue for…
Eyes send an unexpected signal to the brain;
For decades, biology textbooks have stated that eyes communicate with the brain exclusively through one type of signaling pathway. But a new discovery shows that some retinal neurons take a road less traveled. New research, led by Northwestern University, has found that a subset of retinal neurons sends inhibitory signals to the brain. Before, researchers…
🌞 Today’s Motivation ⏲️
“The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, ‘clean energy’ research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues” ~ By Martin Rees
Kuiper belt
The Kuiper belt , occasionally called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, is a circumstellar disc in the outer Solar System, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but is far larger—20 times as wide and 20 to 200 times as massive….
LIGHT YEAR
A light-year is a unit of distance. It is the distance that light can travel in one year. Light moves at a velocity of about 300,000kilometers (km) each second. So in one year, it can travel about 10 trillion km. More precisely,one light-year is equal to 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers. Why would you want such a big unit…
#T10L__Top 10 most venomous snakes
#10 The only snake from the Americas on the list, the Rattlesnake is easily identifiable by the tell tale rattle on the end of its tail. They are actually a part of the Pit Viper family, and are capable of striking at up to 2/3rd their body length. The Eastern Diamondback in considered the most…
METEOROIDS
A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to one-meter-wide objects.Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the MOON or MARS. When a meteoroid, comet,…
🌞 Today’s Motivation ⏲️
“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship” ~ By Robert A. Heinlein
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