NASA spacecraft snaps mysterious ‘surfboard’ orbiting the moon. What is it?
NASA spacecraft snaps mysterious ‘surfboard’ orbiting the moon. What is it? NASA’s lunar orbiter has captured images of a surfboard-shaped object zooming past the moon. The close encounter wasn’t a UFO or an alien megastructure. Rather, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spotted South Korea’s lunar orbiter Danuri zipping by as the two spacecraft circled the moon, NASA officials said in a statement. […]
‘New hidden world’ discovered in Earth’s inner core
The core isn’t a “boring blob of iron” after all. Earth’s “solid” inner core might actually be a bit mushy, researchers now find. For over half a century, the scientific community thought that Earth‘s inner core was a solid ball of compressed iron alloy surrounded by a liquid outer core. But new research, published Sept. 20 […]
Earth’s rotating inner core is starting to slow down — and it could alter the length of our days
A new study confirms that Earth’s inner core has been rotating more slowly than usual since 2010. This mysterious “backtracking” could also end up slightly altering the planet’s overall rotation, lengthening our days.The heart of our planet has been spinning unusually slowly for the past 14 years, new research confirms. And if this mysterious trend […]
Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patients Who Go Undiagnosed
“The statistics are frightening: Dementia is the biggest killer in the UK. It has been the leading cause of death for women since 2011,” says Hilary Evans, CEO of Alzheimer’s Research UK and cochair of the UK Dementia Mission. “One in two of us will be affected by dementia either by caring for someone with the condition or […]