Jupiters Moon Could Support Life – The salty “lake” is thought to be locked within Europa’s icy outer shell a few kilometres from the surface. Other large pockets of liquid water are also likely to exist on the moon, it is claimed. Scientists are excited by the discovery, which offers one of the best hopes [...]
Giant Asteroid Flies Past Earth – Although invisible to the naked eye, scientists said they spotted strange structures on its surface as it spun past at 30,000mph (48 280.32 km/h). Asteroid 2005 YU55′s was the closest an asteroid has been to Earth in 200 years, according to Nasa. It is also the largest space rock [...]
No Patent for Stem Cells – A process which involves removal of a stem cell from a human embryo at the blastocyst stage, entailing the destruction of that embryo, cannot be patented. The use of human embryos for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes which are applied to the human embryo and are useful to it is [...]
Asteroid Closes in on Earth – On Nov. 8, an asteroid named 2005 YU55 will pass within 0.85 lunar distances, about 203,000 miles, of the Earth. This is a near miss in astronomical terms. It was discovered in 2005 by Robert McMillan of the Spacewatch Program and is a dark and nearly spherical object about [...]
NASA Super Computer Maps Universe – The Pleiades supercomputer at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., ran a simulation of the universe, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle. “The simulation corroborates the accuracy of models that astronomers have built to clarify how the ‘Big Bang’ theory initiated the source of [...]
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