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Today is Valentines Day. Are you suffering from “stress cardiomyopathy” aka “Takotsubo cardiomyopathy” aka “Broken Heart Syndrome”? Does it really exist? It does, according to webmd. What is a broken heart syndrome The term “broken heart syndrome” came about after…
Deep Space Industries (DSI) announced today that the asteroid 2012 DA14 that will flyby earth February 15 is an asteroid worth $195B in metals and propellant. Too bad the asteroid is following an orbit that is tilted relative to Earth,…
Watch out for the Pink Planet in the sky this February. The planet Mercury is about to make its best 2-week apparition of the year for backyard sky watchers. Look west at sunset for a piercing pink planet surrounded by…
Have you ever asked how big is the universe? Can you really measure the size of the universe? ‘You’ll never get your head around how big the universe is,’ warns astronomer Pete Edwards of the University of Durham in this…
An Asteroid Flyby is expected on February 15. Small near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass very close to Earth, so close that it will pass inside the ring of geosynchronous weather and communications satellites. NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office can…
On Feb. 5, 1974, Mariner 10 took this first close-up photo of the planet Venus. Made using an ultraviolet filter in its imaging system, the photo has been color-enhanced to bring out Venus’s cloudy atmosphere as the human eye would…
I was actually surprised to read a recent case (January 29, 2013) of penis captivus or vaginal lock that happened in the central part of the Philippines. The woman died when her partner’s genital was locked tight inside hers. The…
In a paper published recently in the journal Human Gene Therapy, lead author David Harrich from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, said that he had found a potential AIDS cure. He said that he had modified a protein in…