Or nearly so. It existed on Mars eons ago. Watch video below for details. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
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We still don’t know where Covid-19 came from
“An updated intelligence assessment about the origins of the Covid-19 virus has reopened the long-simmering and unsolved debate about how the virus came to be,” CNN reported on Monday, February 27, 2023 (read story here). “[T]he US Department of Energy’s Office of Intelligence an[...]
Airliner of the future
The strut wing design has less drag, making it more fuel-efficient. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
January 10th, 2023 - 4:56 am § in Science
Still think climate change is a hoax?
“Don’t Look Up” is a satire film about humanity in denial about an impending comet collision with earth (details here). It’s a not-too-subtle play on attitudes about climate change. Denialism is quite possibly the most striking cultural phenomenon of our time. Election, clima[...]
December 11th, 2022 - 6:24 pm § in Science
Is your dog smart as a toddler, or is your toddler as smart as a dog?
Researchers have discovered dogs can learn much the same way as human toddlers do. This dog, owned by a psychologist, knows the names of over 1,000 objects. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
NASA’s Artemis 1 moonshot is go; watch launch here (video)
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October 29th, 2022 - 10:38 am § in Science
PHOTOGRAPHY: Smiling sun
This is a real photo, snapped by NASA. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
October 17th, 2022 - 3:35 pm § in Science
A black hole is born
Around 2.4 billion years ago, a massive star in the Sagitta Constellation collapsed to form a black hole, and fired gamma rays into space. Astronomers are calling the explosion “BOAT” — the “brightest of all time.” The gamma rays arrived at our planet last week, and wer[...]
October 4th, 2022 - 12:32 pm § in Science
Why can’t time go backwards?
Want to read something that isn’t about politics? Courtesy of BBC News, I have just the article for you! It begins, “When Isaac Newton published his famous Principia in 1687, his three elegant laws of motion solved a lot of problems. … But these laws brought to physics a new probl[...]
October 4th, 2022 - 1:22 am § in Science
Swede wins Nobel Medicine Prize for tracing ancient DNA
Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo, 67, won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the dawn of human history” including sequencing the first Neanderthel genome,[...]