Tardigrades could (maybe) survive a nuclear attack. And now we know how.
A tardigrade. (AP Photo/BobGoldstein && amp; Vicki Madden, UNC Chapel Hill) Scientists just recently understood a essential component in tardigrades’ toolbox of superpowers, unraveling how a distinct protein secures everybody’s preferred tiny water bears from damaging radiation. Though small, tardigrades are infamously hard. They can weather severe conditions that would eliminate most kinds of life, […]
Doomsday Clock reaches 2 minutes to midnight – closest point to nuclear annihilation since Cold War
(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) TheDoomsday Clock was proceeded Thursday to 2 minutes to midnight– marking the closest the symbolic point of international Armageddon that the clock represents has actually reached since 1953. CitingPresident Trump’s proactive rhetoric towards fellow international powers, North Korea’s continuing nuclear weapon and ballistic rocket tests and increased stress in between […]
Declassified footage shows how countless nuclear bombs were detonated by the US in Earth’s atmosphere
Researchers at the LawrenceLivermore National Laboratory(LLNL) have actually released 62 freshly declassified videos of US climatic nuclear test movies, never-before-seen by the public. The videos are the 2nd batch of clinical movies to be released on the LLNL’s YouTube channel this year, and the group prepares to launch the staying videos of the checks […]