Polar Vortex Updates: Extreme Cold Weather Spreads East

Extreme cold in Chicago may cause some frostbite victims to lose limbs:
Polar vortex brings coldest air in a generation

Deepest image of space: The lost Hubble images.

The new version of Hubble’s deep image is shown above. In dark grey you can see the new light that has been found around the galaxies in this field. That light corresponds to the brightness of more than one hundred billion suns.

The Daily Galaxy via Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Image Credit: A. S. Borlaff et al.

In the not so future we may have a cure to Alzheimer's. Does gum disease play a key role in the development of Alzheimer's?

Does gum disease play a key role in the development of Alzheimer's?

Scientists believe this may be the case after their study found further evidence of the link between bacteria in a common type of gum disease and people with dementia.

Researchers say their findings offer hope for a new way of tackling the illness, for which there is no cure and no effective treatments.

But does it mean people should be more worried about their oral health?


Greener Childhood Associated With Happier Adulthood

The only thing we can do is adapt': Greenland ice melt reaching 'tipping point,' study finds

A study published last month in the scientific journal Nature found that Greenland's ice sheets, which contain enough water to raise global sea levels by 23 feet -- have been melting at an "unprecedented" rate, 50% higher than pre-industrial levels and 33% above 20th-century levels.

The not so future is filled with rain

Flooding, and the schools are closed.

measuring all the light in the universe.

Putting a number on the amount of starlight ever produced has several variables that make it difficult to quantify in simple terms. But according to the new measurement, the number of photons (particles of visible light) that escaped into space after being emitted by stars translates to 4×10^84.

Or put another way: 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 photons.

California Monarch Butterfly Numbers Decline 86% in 2 Years

Massive tuna nets $3.1 million at Japan auction: 612 pounds.

and the Tuna was not paid.

Dark side of the moon

China lands a probe on the dark side of the moon