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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - May 2015

May 2015

Sep 18, 2015

UFO Hunters Find Stone Disc from Alien Spacecraft

Alien enthusiast groups claim to have found debris from a UFO that may have landed on Earth a million years ago.
According to a Russian website, the ‘remains’ discovered came in the form of a four-metre stone disc.
The disc, which was one of several reportedly found in the area, is important as it may contain metal tungsten (Wolfram), which is used in military technology and could apparently be present in a UFO.

Sep 17, 2015

Sound Waves Used to Activate Brain Cells

For the first time, scientists have directly controlled brain cells using sound waves, in a tiny laboratory worm.
They used ultrasound to trigger activity in specific neurons, causing the worms to change direction.
By contrast, ultrasound travels relatively unimpeded through the body; this is the property that makes it useful for medical sonograms.
This could be a big advantage when you want to stimulate a region deep in the brain.

Sep 15, 2015

Astronomers peer into planet-hosting Star for the First Time

Astronomers have successfully peered through the “amniotic sac” of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost region of a burgeoning solar system for the first time.
No one so far has been able to probe this close to a star that is still forming and which also has at least one planet so close in.
To observe this distant star called “HD 100546”, the astronomers used the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) which is based in an observatory in Chile.

Sep 14, 2015

Neon Surrounds Moon

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft has found neon in the lunar atmosphere.
The moon's thin atmosphere contains neon. While scientists have speculated on the presence of neon in the lunar atmosphere for decades, LADEE spacecraft has confirmed its existence for the first time.
The presence of neon in the exosphere of the moon has been a subject of speculation since the Apollo missions, but no credible detections were made.

Sep 13, 2015

Traces of Meteorite that Hit Sweden Found

Researchers have found traces of two simultaneous meteorite impacts in the Swedish county of Jamtland - first evidence of a twin strike that occurred around 460 million years ago.
The researchers discovered two craters - while one is enormous with a diameter of 7.5 kilometres, the other, located 16 kilometres away, has a diametre of 700 metres.

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