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Stargazers will be delighted to hear that December will have some great meteor showers in the sky. Astronomers predict that this year’s Geminids will be particularly various, with their moms and dad body, asteroid 3200 Phaethon, also passing near to our planet around the same period.Phaethon is a rocky asteroid, …

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  Bugs appeared on our planet around 400 million years back and managed to endure through all the natural disasters. Some of us believe that they’re not extremely enjoyable, however this is far from true. Do not you believe us? Intense Side gathered for you photos of terrific animals that …

Scientists from Japan and Singapore report in the November 23 issue of the journal Nature that they observed positron (antimatter counterpart of the electron) and neutron signals after lightning. Enoto et al describe how gamma rays from lightning react with the air to produce radioisotopes and even positrons. Image credit: …

Opening windows and doors before going to bed can reduce carbon dioxide levels in bedrooms and improve sleep quality, according to new research from the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Mishra et al investigated influence of bedroom air quality on different sleep parameters. Image credit: Alfons Schueler. Dr. Asit …

Neutrinos are subatomic particles that are famous for passing through anything and everything. Now, physicists have demonstrated that our planet stops high-energy neutrinos — they do not go through everything. The experiment was achieved with the IceCube Observatory, an array of 5,160 basketball-sized sensors frozen deep within a km3 of …

Drinking three to four cups of coffee a day is associated with a lower risk of mortality and getting heart disease compared with drinking no coffee, according to an umbrella review of over 200 previous studies, published in the journal BMJ. According to the scientists, coffee consumption is generally safe, …

After more than 13 years at Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and capturing a series of images of the gas giant planet and its rings two days before the probe’s plunge into the planet’s atmosphere. This image …

An international team of scientists from the United States and Indonesia has described a new species of flowering plant of the genus Rafflesia from the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Rafflesia kemumu. Image credit: Susatya et al / Ministry of Environment and Forestry Republic of Indonesia. Rafflesia is a genus of …

We used to think of Mars as a dry, desolate planet devoid of running water. Then, in 2011 astronomers discovered evidence that liquid water might still flow on the Martian surface. This gave scientists hope that life may still exist on the red planet and that humans could more easily …