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< img alt="VectorNexus.jpg"height="448"src="https://fs.bitcoinmagazine.com/img/images/VectorNexus.width-800.jpg"width="800">Area business Vector and blockchain designer Nexus revealed a partnership to host Nexus’s decentralized cryptocurrency on a satellite orbiting the Earth, utilizing Vector’s GalacticSky platform. Inning accordance with the developers, Nexus innovation provides enhancements over existing blockchain systems like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Nexus cryptography with 571-bit secrets, which …

When anything bad happens on the planet, we can generally rely on one thing to make us feel much better: chocolate. There’s absolutely nothing like a good sweet bar or pain au chocolat to comfort us in times of problem. Exactly what takes place when the vicious world decides to …

If you enjoyed the US total solar eclipse last year, then we’ve got a reward for you at the start of 2018. There’s going to be a total lunar eclipse on January 31, and it accompanies a “Blue Moon” for the first time because 1866. A lunar eclipse happens when …

Tonight– January 2, 2018– we reach Earth’s closest indicate the sun for this whole year at 11:35 p.m. CST (central U.S.). It’ll be the morning of January 3 for Europe and Africa … later in the day January 3 for the remainder of the world (January 3 at 5:35 UTC; …

Jupiter is a very different planet than Earth, but scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center think they’ve unraveled a mystery on the solar system’s largest planet that could affect how we understand the weather patterns here. For decades, scientists have puzzled over an atmospheric jet stream on Jupiter called …

A new species of large Pacific octopus has been discovered in the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska. The frilled giant Pacific octopus. Image credit: David Scheel, doi: 10.4003/006.035.0206. The newly-discovered species belongs to Enteroctopus, a genus whose members are known as ‘giant octopuses.’ All species of this genus live …

A team of Japanese planetary researchers led by Osaka University’s Professor Kentaro Terada has discovered that the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field can transport high-energy ions of biogenic oxygen from the atmosphere of our planet to the lunar surface. This image shows how the solar wind transports ions of …

A ‘triple receptor’ drug originally created to treat type 2 diabetes could be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease after researchers from China and the United Kingdom found it ‘significantly reversed memory loss’ in mice. The research appears in the journal Brain Research. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, characterized …

Giant storms in Saturn’s northern hemisphere can disturb atmospheric patterns at the ringed giant’s equator, according to new research published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Saturn’s Great Northern Storm churning through the atmosphere in the planet’s northern hemisphere overtakes itself as it encircles the planet in this true-color view from …

The upcoming encounter of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft with 2014 MU69 will be an important and rare opportunity for close-up study of a Kuiper Belt object. The New Horizons team was already excited to learn earlier this year that 2014 MU69 might be either peanut-shaped or even a binary. Now …