Why There’s Less Gravity in Hudson Bay, Canada ?

The Hudson Bay region of Canada has less gravity than it’s supposed to. The reasons for the shortage have puzzled scientists for decades. Gravity isn’t uniform all over the Earth’s surface. It’s a result of mass, which means the varying density of the Earth at different...

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Building A Base On The Moon

The cold war between the US and Russia ended half a century ago. But it paved the way for Space exploration for the year to come. On 12 April 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin made history by becoming the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone...

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What is Mars Solar Conjunction ?

Solar conjunction is the period when Earth and Mars, in their eternal march around the Sun, are obscured from each other by the fiery orb of the Sun itself. Like dancers on either side of a huge bonfire, the two planets are temporarily invisible to each other. During...

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Turn Daily Plastic Waste Products Into Jet Fuel

For too long, the public conversation around plastic has been narrowly focused on plastic waste in the ocean. While marine debris is indeed a serious part of the problem, this limited focus leaves too much of the story untold. Plastic isn’t just a problem when it enters...

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What Is 5G?

The world’s connectivity needs are changing. Global mobile data traffic is expected to multiply by 5 before the end of 2024. Particularly in dense urban areas, the current 4G networks simply won’t be able to keep up. That’s where a new G comes into play. With 5G commercial...

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Why do Fevers get Worse at Night?

The illness goes bump in the night may not be just a patient's imagination. Doctors have sensed for centuries that many diseases actually do get worse at night and science has begun to confirm this impression. Fevers are often worse at night. The same is often said about...

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Two Supermassive Black Holes On A Collision Course

Supermassive black holes are thought to be at the centre of most galaxies, and they are huge. The Milky Way’s own supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, is about 4 million times the mass of our sun. But scientists have just spotted two absolute behemoths, that dwarf Sagittarius...

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Global Warming Explained By Quantum Mechanics

You have probably heard that carbon dioxide is warming the Earth, but how does it work? Is it like the glass of a greenhouse or like an insulating blanket? Well, not entirely. The answer involves a bit of quantum mechanics, but don't worry, we'll start with a rainbow. If...

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Triton | The Largest Of Neptune's 13 Moons

Triton is an exceptionally unusual, although often forgotten, moon. It has so many unique characteristics, it makes it one of the most interesting objects in the Solar System. But because it is the largest moon of Neptune, the planet furthest away from us, it also means...

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How Many Times A Falcon 9 Can Be Reused?

On the 21st of December 2015, SpaceX made history by landing their first Falcon 9 booster back on land. After years of development and testing, SpaceX was one step closer to dramatically reducing the cost of spaceflight. Since then, over 45 boosters have been landed...

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How To Produce More Brain Cells?

It was previously believed that we stopped creating new brain cells once we became adults. Science has proven this to be false and coined the term Brain Plasticity. The brain is flexible, everything we experience is constantly changing and shaping our brains to some degree. The...

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Pneumonia | Why It Is So Deadly?

Our immune system has a whole arsenal, like macrophages, cytokines, t-cells and many more, to fight off an infection. But when it comes to some diseases, the way the body defends itself can have unintended consequences. In the case of Pneumonia,...

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