Green lights, red planet: Glow similar to the Aurora Borealis is detected around Mars for the first time Excitation of oxygen causes the primarily green colour of our polar aurorae However, they also cause a thin green glow around 56 miles above the ground Experts said that Mars should have a similar glow — but … Read more
A new antibody, that spots the toxic particles that destroy healthy brain cells in dementia patients, could be used to diagnose and monitor the disease. Researchers from Cambridge University designed a way to recognise these particles – called amyloid-beta oligomers – which are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s. The creation of the antibody could lead to … Read more
Carbon emissions from the moon are making scientists question the theory that our dusty rock was formed in a collision between Earth and the ‘wandering planet’ Theia. Readings from a retired Japanese spacecraft found traces of carbon and volatile water in lunar gases that show the moon is emitting carbon ions from its surface. This … Read more
Air pollution from 12th century British lead mines ‘was as bad as the industrial revolution’ and has been detected in glacial ice from the Swiss–Italian Alps. Researchers used high-precision laser technology to analyse the contents of an 800-year-old section of ice bored out of the Colle Gnifetti glacier in 2013. They found that the levels of … Read more
Bird flu is detected in both India and The Philippines prompting cull of more than 12,000 quails, chickens and ducks More than 12,000 quail birds have been culled to stop bird flu in the Phillippines Quail farm detects the highly infectious H5N6 subtype of the bird flu virus Authorities are now contact-tracing to determine the … Read more
SpaceX halts rocket launch at the LAST second before lift-off when its auto-abort computer detected an engine issue SpaceX was set to launch Falcon 9 with 60 Starlink satellites on Sunday The rocket’s software detected an engine problem and aborted the mission The technology shut off the engines just milliseconds before the rocket took off By Stacy … Read more
The ‘biggest explosion since the Big Bang’ has been detected by astronomers and it comes from a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 390 million light years away. Astronomers from Curtin University in Australia used the new Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope to study the blast in the distance galactic core. The extremely powerful eruption … Read more