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07/19/2018 / By Russel Davis

Supernova, resurrected: Scientists are puzzled by “the star that wouldn’t die”

A team of researchers at the University of California Berkeley, Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, more commonly known as Berkeley Lab, discovered a supernova that continued to shine a few months after fading. According to the scientists, the cause of the stellar event remains unclear. An LCO release noted that the supernova called iPTF14hls was […]

02/03/2018 / By Russel Davis

Hey, this space lasagna tastes like crap! Astronauts to eat their own microbe-recycled human waste in latest science “breakthrough”

Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University recently reported that they were able to harness microbes and convert them into potential food sources, which in turn may help space travels a lot less grueling for astronauts. The research team noted that bringing enough food and water from Earth to outer space takes up large volumes of space […]

09/16/2017 / By Russel Davis

Shapeshifting bacteria? Scientists discover how E. coli in space becomes antibiotic resistant

Bacterial cells such as E.coli were found to mutate or shapeshift in space to resist common antibiotics that successfully kill them on Earth, a study in the Frontiers in Microbiology revealed. The scientific community has long established that bacteria show different activities in space than when they are on Earth. Likewise, researchers have known that it takes […]

08/29/2017 / By Russel Davis

Scientists now developing ways to turn human waste into plastic and nutrients… is this really our future?

Researchers recently alluded that human waste such as urine and breath may one day make space travel more efficient for astronauts. While the International Space Station has already started recycling human urine into clean drinking water for astronauts, lead researcher Mark Blenner stressed that space personnel should be able to produce nutrients and material they need during their […]

05/05/2017 / By Russel Davis

Space pollution reaching dangerous levels as 750,000 pieces of debris are orbiting earth

A recent conference on space rubbish revealed that more than 750,000 pieces of dangerous debris currently orbit the earth. According to experts, these debris may threaten the future of spaceflight. The experts noted that more than 5,250 launches have been conducted since 1957, which accounted for more than 23,000 tracked objects found in orbit and around […]

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