By Frank Palatnick.    Boron is the fifth element in the periodic table. It was discovered by Sir Henry Davy, an English chemist and two French chemists in 1808. Boron is used for glass and ceramics. It is also used for controlling [...]

By The Daily Journalist. Reposted from: The Voice of Russia. Three ancient pyramids have been discovered in the Antarctic by a team of American and European scientists. Two of the pyramids were discovered about 16 kilometers inland, [...]

  By Alton Parrish. Rare earthquake lights are more likely to occur on or near rift environments, where subvertical faults allow stress-induced electrical currents to flow rapidly to the surface, according to a new study published in the [...]

  By Alton Parrish. The Atlas Mountains defy the standard model for mountain structure in which high topography must have deep roots for support, according to a new study from Earth scientists at USC. In a new model, the researchers show [...]

  By Alton Parrish. Increasingly small robots that carry out their functions even inside the human body. No, this isn’t a sci-fi dream but a close possibility. On one condition: the miniaturization of these devices requires them to [...]

  By Alton Parrish. A multi-year study of the Whirlpool galaxy (M51) has shaken up astronomers’ views of the properties of giant molecular clouds. The new study, which mapped 1,500 such clouds, shows that, instead, they are embedded [...]

  By UCLA. Researchers at UCLA’s Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have discovered a mechanism by which certain adult stem cells suppress their ability to initiate skin cancer during [...]

    By University of Southern Denmark. Maybe it happens tomorrow. Maybe in a billion years. Physicists have long predicted that the universe may one day collapse, and that everything in it will be compressed to a small hard ball. New [...]

    By Frank Palatnick. The next element in Mendeleev’s table of elements is ‘ Helium ‘. Helium is the second most abundant element. It is believed to have been formed during the ‘ Big Bang ‘. Large amounts [...]

  By Frank Palatnick. In 1863 Gregor Mendeleev created and established the ‘ Table of Elements ‘ . The table of elements is based on the fundamental parts of nature. Matter, whether gas, liquid or solid is made of basic entities [...]

  By Alton Parrish. Even a short-term diet of junk food can have a detrimental effect on the brain’s cognitive ability, according toUNSW research. For the first time, researchers have shown that rats fed a diet high in fat and sugar [...]

  By Parrish Alton.  Marijuana consumption in Washington state is about twice as large as previously estimated, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Using federal data and information from a new survey of marijuana users in Washington [...]

  By Alton Parrish. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’smoon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon’s surface. Previous [...]

   By Alton Parrish.    A team of international researchers, led by Monash University’s Associate Professor Wouter Schellart, have developed a new global map of subduction zones, illustrating which ones are predicted to be capable [...]

  Posted by Alton Parrish. Scientists are digging deep into the Earth’s surface collecting census data on the microbial denizens of the hardened rocks. What they’re finding is that, even miles deep and halfway across the globe, [...]

  Posted by Alton Parrish. The discovery of a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance has astronomers puzzled over how such a strange system came to be. An international team of astronomers, led by a University of [...]

Posted by Alton Parrish. Regional climate changes can be very rapid. A German-British team of geoscientists now reports that such a rapid climate change occurred in different regions with a time difference of 120 years. Investigation in the [...]

  By Alton Parrish. After several days of continued observations, scientists continue to work to determine and to understand the fate of Comet ISON: There’s no doubt that the comet shrank in size considerably as it rounded the sun [...]

    By ESA. From the highest volcano to the deepest canyon, from impact craters to ancient river beds and lava flows, this showcase of images from ESA’s Mars Express takes you on an unforgettable journey across the Red Planet. Mars [...]

    Posted by Alton Parrish. Magnets have fascinated mankind for millenia. From the Greek philosophers to scientists of the modern era, which saw the rise of quantum mechanics, magnets have been pondered and investigated. Nowadays, they [...]