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Dec 21, 2018
On this day 50 years ago, Apollo 8 was en route to the Moon on the first human flight to lunar orbit
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space travel
Three days later, on Dec. 24, astronauts Bill Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell became the first people to see the Moon’s far side, did a memorable reading from Genesis and took this famous Earthrise photo. Discover more about our #Apollo50 anniversary: https://go.nasa.gov/2EImzGq
Dec 21, 2018
The man turning China into a quantum superpower
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in category: quantum physics
He’s China’s “father of quantum.”
Jian-Wei Pan, China’s “father of quantum”, is masterminding its drive for global leadership in technologies that could change entire industries.
Dec 21, 2018
Mars Express beams back images of ice-filled Korolev crater
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
The stunning Korolev crater in the northern lowlands of Mars is filled with ice all year round owing to a trapped layer of cold Martian air that keeps the water frozen.
The 50-mile-wide crater contains 530 cubic miles of water ice, as much as Great Bear Lake in northern Canada, and in the centre of the crater the ice is more than a mile thick.
Images beamed back from the red planet show that the lip around the impact crater rises high above the surrounding plain. When thin Martian air then passes over the crater, it becomes trapped and cools to form an insulating layer that prevents the ice from melting.
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Dec 21, 2018
Neural Stem Cells Grown From Blood Could Revolutionize Medicine
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, quantum physics
New nerve cells represent a quantum jump for regenerative therapy.
Unlike other reprogrammed stem cells, these can continue to multiply in a lab.
Dec 21, 2018
Guitarist plays through brain surgery
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Dec 21, 2018
Scientists Find A Brain Circuit That Could Explain Seasonal Depression
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: health, neuroscience
Specialized Cells In Eye Linked To Mood Regions In Brain : Shots — Health News Research suggests the winter blues are triggered by specialized light-sensing cells in the retina that communicate directly with brain areas involved in mood.
Dec 21, 2018
Huge collision billions of years ago caused Uranus to become lopsided
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Dec 21, 2018
Astronomers Found Ancient Remains of a Big Bang “Fossil Cloud”
Posted by Michael Lance in category: cosmology
And it could reveal secrets about the origins of our universe.
And it’s billions of years old.