The earth could be hit by a wave of violent space weather as early as Tuesday after a massive explosion on the sun, scientists have warned.
The solar fireworks at the weekend were recorded by several satellites, including Nasa’s new Solar Dynamics Observatory which watched its shock wave rippling outwards.

Astronomers from all over the world [...]

by: LiveScience Staff LiveScience.com
The Earth’s oceans are among the most mysterious places on the planet, but scientists now have at least figured out how deep the oceans are and just how much water they hold.
A group of scientists used satellite measurements to get new estimates of these values, which turned out to be 0.3 [...]

by: Space. com Staff
The seemingly inescapable fact that matter and antimatter particles destroy each other on contact has long puzzled physicists wondering how life, the universe or anything else can exist at all. But new results from a particle accelerator experiment suggest that matter does seem to win in the end.
The experiment has shown a [...]

Polar Opposites
The Arctic region is essentially a frozen ocean surrounded by land. Conversely, Antarctica is a continent-with mountain ranges and lakes-surrounded by an ocean. Socially and politically, though, the Arctic region includes the northern territories of Canada, Greenland (a territory of Denmark), Russia, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the United States.
Most Ice
The southernmost continent has [...]

by Stuart Fox
Three British scientists shocked the world when they revealed on May 16th, 1985 – 25 years ago – that aerosol chemicals, among other factors, had torn a hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole. The ozone layer, which protects life on Earth from damaging solar radiation, became an overnight sensation. And [...]

A huge NASA balloon loaded with a telescope painstakingly built to scan the sky at wavelengths invisible to the human eye crashed in the Australian outback Thursday, destroying the astronomy experiment and just missing nearby onlookers, according to Australian media reports.
In dramatic video released by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the giant 400-foot (121-meter) [...]

The Hubble telescope, launched on 24 April 1990, has had a chequered history, requiring major repairs early in its career due to one of its focusing mirrors being incorrectly made. However, since then it has returned some of the most incredible images ever taken of space, including the famous Pillars of Creation image and the [...]

On Sunday, March 21, 2010, a group of United States researchers released their findings in the journal Nature. The study offers early proof that a new treatment approach of tiny nanoparticle robots can travel through a patient’s blood, into tumors and knock out an important cancer gene.
The technology called RNA interference or RNA stands for [...]

Man owes a great debt to the scientists on this list; all of them died or were injured in their pursuit of knowledge. The advances they have all made to science are extraordinary and many of them paved the way for some of man’s greatest discoveries and inventions.
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Karl Scheele
Died from tasting his discoveries
Scheele was a [...]

The human mind is a wonderful thing. Cognition, the act or process of thinking, enables us to process vast amounts of information quickly. For example, every time your eyes are open, you brain is constantly being bombarded with stimuli. You may be consciously thinking about one specific thing, but you brain is processing thousands of [...]