Author: MOST. JESMIN AKTER

The rare blast peeled back the inner layers of a dying star, offering clues to how the elements that make up life on Earth were forged. Source link

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus.A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered around the seventh planet from the sun. The moon, which was first seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on Feb. 2, joins a busy neighborhood of 28 other known moons around Uranus.The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into one of the more mysterious planets in our solar system.“No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus,” Matthew Tiscareno,…

Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty. Source link

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that the public should avoid eating certain frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to concerns that the seafood may have been contaminated with radioactive material.Health officials said in a news release that it is investigating reports of Cesium-137 (Cs-137) contamination in shipping containers and frozen shrimp products processed by an Indonesian company, PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati of Indonesia, also known as BMS Food. Some of the raw frozen shrimp products processed by an Indonesian company are sold at Walmart stores in 13 states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio,…

A small, preliminary study found that marathoners were much more likely to have precancerous growths. Experts aren’t sure why. Source link

Across the border in Austria, Andrea Fischer, the vice-director of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, said these kinds of mass alpine movements are becoming stronger and more frequent.“One-third of Austria’s glaciers will vanish in the next five years,” Fischer said, standing on what remains of the Stubai Glacier, about 72 miles northeast of Morteratsch. At the top of one of Austria’s most popular ski resorts, Stubai is projected to disappear entirely by 2033.“The end of the Alpine glaciers is really coming very, very close. And we see it. It’s not modeling in the computer. It’s…

The administration has pledged to end support for Housing First, the approach behind the V.A.’s greatest housing success story. Source link

Chikungunya, which can disable victims for years, is spreading rapidly, including in China and other places that have not seen it before. Source link

A former Michigan State grad student blamed her thyroid cancer on the school, which she says told her that “exposure was harmless” when she worked with various pesticides and herbicides, she and her lawyers said Monday.LingLong Wei was diagnosed with thyroid cancer on June 26 last year in a health downturn that is “directly related to events that took place during her time” at MSU from 2008 and 2011 pursuing a master’s degree in horticulture, according to a lawsuit filed in Ingham County Circuit Court. “During Ms. Wei’s field research she was required by Michigan State University to spray dangerous…

Rapid intensification describes an increase in sustained wind speeds of at least 35 mph over a 24-hour period, according to the National Hurricane Center.Erin’s maximum sustained wind speed increased around 75 mph in 24 hours, from Friday morning into Saturday. Climate change is increasing the risk of rapidly intensifying storms, primarily due to warmer-than-usual sea surface temperatures and high levels of moisture in the atmosphere — key ingredients needed for storms to gather strength.In a preliminary analysis, the nonprofit research organization Climate Central said that Erin’s “extreme rapid intensification” on Saturday occurred as the storm moved over “unusually warm ocean…