NASA just released some images of nearby galaxies photographed by the Hubble space telescope and they are nothing short of breathtaking. NGC 4490 Galaxy - ESA/Hubble The ultraviolet images were all taken as part of the LEGUS project, which is short for Legacy Extra Galactic UV Survey. As part of this project, scientists studied 50 dwarf and spiral galaxies in our local universe (11 to 58 million light years away) by using old and new Hubble observations.

In June of 1965 astronauts James McDivitt and Ed Pilot took part in the Gemini IV mission launched by NASA. The purpose of the mission was to show that humans could stay in space for extended lengths of time. It was the 2nd manned Gemini space flight and the 10th manned spaceflight by the US. Wikimedia Commons For four days, McDivitt and White circled the Earth 66 times, and even took the first spacewalk ever by an American astronaut, as White floated free outside of the spacecraft for about 20 minutes.

When one thinks of timeless monuments to humanity, they often (probably) think of the pyramids of Giza, the giant heads on Easter Island and the monoliths of Stonehenge. Wikimedia Commons Based on the findings of archaeologists and other scientists, the Wiltshire, England circle of large stones is believed to have dated back to 3000 to 2000 BC, with recent tests pointing to the site being 500 years older than previously thought.

Next time there’s a medical emergency and you’re forced to yell, “Is there a doctor in the house,” go ahead and add, “And an engineer, too?” It turns out that you can never tell when one you may need one. Pexels This story takes place on an airplane where a 30 year old male passenger with Type 1 diabetes had lost his insulin pump while going through airport security. With the plane in the air and his blood sugar spiking to dangerous levels, flight attendants leapt into action to get him the medical attention he so desperately needed.

If Vladimir Putin’s plans come to fruition, the Russians will soon have an underwater drone capable of wreaking disastrous havoc. TASS is reporting that Russia is working on a nuclear powered underwater drone capable of carrying a two megatonne nuclear warhead. Kremlin.ru From the Daily Mirror: “It will be possible to mount various nuclear charges on the ‘torpedo’ of the Poseidon multipurpose seaborne system, with the thermonuclear single warhead… to have the maximum capacity of up to 2 megatonnes in TNT equivalent.

When the ancients had taxing problems or life issues that required an expert’s opinion, they often sought the counsel and sage advice of an oracle. These givers of wisdom were often located at “mystical” locations that gave them special powers of discernment and vision. Wikimedia Commons One such location was outside of Selcuk in southwestern Turkey. Here the oracle of Cybele, the earth goddess of Asia Minor, would grant healing to the sick, fertility to the childless, and wisdom to all who came seeking it.

Totalitarianism is the form of government that subjects the individual to the centralized rule of a tyrannical master that puts all forms of public and private production and consumption under its control. Wikimedia Commons A big part of a government’s ability to wrangle in the population is its co-opting of large corporations under the banner of carrying out the ‘state’s business’. This unofficial merger becomes especially dangerous when it is controlled by what President Dwight Eisenhower called the ‘military industrial complex’.

It takes a lot for a novel innovation or scientific breakthrough to make others think that “what Elon Musk is doing look fairly pedestrian.” That, however is exactly what famed Harvard biologist George Church might just do with the announcement that he is backing a new startup biogenic company that is focused on making history. Harvard.edu MIT Technology Review reports that Church, who is also involved in bringing the extinct woolly mammoth back to life (an effort cited in Ben Mezrich’s excellent book ‘Woolly: The True Story to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures) and Rejuvenate Bio are working on transplanting the progress made in reversing the signs of aging made in worms and mice to Man’s best friend.

Hawaii, ‘The Big Island’, is experiencing the unfolding of a hellish tragedy. Mt. Kilauea began erupting on May 3 and since then the southeastern area of the island has been ripped asunder by 21 fissures scarring the jungle paradise, while tremors continue to leave residents feeling the ground beneath their feet is far from stable. Seismologists are now warning that the Kilauea volcano may be getting ready for a major eruption, reports CNN.

For the past few days the internet has provided us with yet another a new thing to obsess over and debate with others while avoiding doing actual work. Last year the same crowd of people fought each other over the color of a dress posted online. Wired.com Now it is an audio clip of a woman saying, depending on who you ask, either “Yanny” or “Laurel”, reports C/Net. Apparently, the clip comes from an opera singer hired by Vocabulary.