There’s a popular belief the U.S. government is hiding alien bodies and crashed space ships in storage at Roswell, New Mexico (and possibly other secret locations), and is keeping the public in the dark about earth-shaking news: The earth is receiving alien visitors. The reality is worse: Neit[...]
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Hostile takeover: Trumper in running to run Georgia’s universities
Sonny Perdue, ex-agriculture secretary under Trump (bio here), reportedly is a leading contender for chancellor of Georgia’s public university system, and students and faculty are mobilizing against him, Mother Jones reports. (Read story here.) Perdue has zero experience managing a university.[...]
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Science: Space “hums”
“Instruments aboard NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft … have detected a faint monotonous hum caused by the constant vibrations of the small amounts of gas found in the near-emptiness of interstellar space,” Reuters reported on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (Read story here.) “The pe[...]
What kind of fish is this?
For answer, click here. Now the question everyone will ask is, “Can you eat it?” Heck, I don’t know, but I’m not inclined to try. Now for a joke. Two tigers were padding through the jungle when they spotted a hiker. The younger tiger, who had never seen a human before, asked [...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Pluto
No, you don’t get resolution like this from your $89.95 telescope, or even a computer-enhanced image (left) from the multi-billion dollar Hubble space telescope; this imagery is from the New Horizons spacecraft’s 2015 flyby of the Solar System’s ninth planet, or a dwarf planet, or [...]
Antiviral drugs: A primer
“Unlike broad-spectrum antibiotics, which can be used to treat a wide range of bacterial infections, drugs that work against one type of virus rarely work at treating other viruses.” That, in a nutshell, is why we don’t have a penicillin for Covid-19. Also because “viruses ar[...]
April 30th, 2021 - 12:29 am § in Science
PHOTOGRAPHY: Andromeda galaxy
It’s 2.5 million light years away, so what you see here is what existed that long ago, before the Dawn of Man. Photo by Hubble telescope. Click on image to enlarge and then say “Wow!” Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Exciting new test for prostate cancer
A new urine test developed at the University of Michigan’s cancer center that uses AI and genomic sequencing “could detect aggressive forms of prostate cancer … missed by biopsies and scans,” the Daily Mail reported on Monday, April 26, 2021. Prostate cancer is a common, and [...]
April 26th, 2021 - 3:10 pm § in Science
Can whiter paint save the planet?
White paint reflects sunlight and solar heat; whiter paint reflects more sunlight and solar heat. So Purdue University researchers came up with the whitest paint of all, which they “estimate that if 1,000 square feet of roof were covered with this paint, it would provide a cooling power of 10 [...]