uaot Subscribe to Start with a Bang newsletter Travel the world with Dr. As Ethan Siegel answers the biggest questions of all Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. Bright stars and dust lanes dominate our everyday view of the galaxy. This spiral galaxy, NGC 1512, is only 30 million light-years away, and is characterized by … Read more
Wellington, New Zealand (AP) – Loud, smelly, shy – and New Zealand’s bird of the year. A yellow-eyed penguin won the country’s hotly contested bird election on Monday, giving supporters of the endangered bird hope that recognition from its victory could spark a revival for the species. It followed a campaign for the annual Bird … Read more
Rohit and Anshuma Rastogi have been spending lakhs every year to keep their children alive. Their son and daughter, Akshat and Roli, were born with a genetic disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), which causes muscle weakness and atrophy, as well as a severely weakened immune system. This occurs due to the loss of motor … Read more
Of all the mysteries facing astronomers and meteorologists today, the “Hubble Controversy” still persists! This term refers to the apparent inconsistency of the expansion of the Universe (aka. the Hubble Constant) when internal measurements are compared to those of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Astronomers hoped that observations of the earliest galaxies in the Universe … Read more
The Big Bang theory has long been considered the primary explanation for the origin of the universe. However, is it possible that we are viewing the world through an imperfect lens? Recent research by Professor Lior Shamir challenges this prevailing idea, suggesting that an alternative, less recognized theory can illuminate our understanding of the universe … Read more
Help keep One Green Planet free and independent! Together we can ensure our platform remains a hub for enabling ideas committed to fighting for a sustainable, healthy and compassionate world. Please support us in keeping our mission strong. A video that captures a bear’s hilarious struggle to climb a hammock in Vail, Colorado, has entertained … Read more
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica by email. Or follow us on Google News! The current climate crisis that confronts us requires political and policy solutions that disempower the oil industry and their government allies. Unfortunately, the current US presidential election season is full of hyperbole, controversy and misinformation. Talks like these threaten … Read more
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb ERO Production Team; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major, CC BY Over the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the established field of cosmology. In short, the predictions of the standard universe model appear to be at odds with recent observations. There is … Read more
Fatty liver disease is a growing concern in India with factors such as insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and genetic predisposition playing an important role in its development. The disease progresses from fatty accumulation in the liver to serious conditions such as cirrhosis and liver cancer if left untreated. In India, lifestyle factors such as sedentary … Read more
A long-lost moon may explain why Mars is so different from the other rocky planets in the solar system. Today, Mars it has two small months. But early in its history, the Red Planet may have had a larger moon, which could be responsible for Mars’ strange shape and surface, Michael Efroimsky, an astronomer at … Read more