News24xx.com - The American marine explorer Victor Vescovo has dived 10,927 m to the base of Challenger Deep, the southern part of Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean and found plastic waste. This is of course an irony because the journey was claimed to be the deepest dive ever recorded by humans. Vescovo's dive, carried out on May 1, is part of the exploration of the deepest area under ...

News24xx.com - Space agencies such as NASA have announced ambitions to bring people to the Moon and settle there. But there is only one problem that might prevent this ambition from becoming a reality. In theory, conditions on the Moon that are very extreme require humans to live in special structures that can maintain atmospheric pressure in vacuum. Besides that humans on the Moon also need ...

News24xx.com - An 8-month-old tabby cat was accidentally trapped in a shipping container for more than a month. The kitten flew from China to Italy. The cat miraculously survived being trapped in a sealed space without food or water for 45 days. It was found by the customs officer in Pioltello near Milan during an inspection. The cat is now under the care of Fabio Maffioletti, a veterinaria...

News24xx.com - The Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) technique has long been used by medical experts to cure the shakiness in Parkinson's patients. This technique uses implants that placed in the brain that can drain electricity to stimulate certain nerves. A group of researchers in China plan to apply a similar technique this time to treat methamphetamine and opioid drug addiction. If it wor...

News24xx.com - The giant dust storm on Mars is known to be dangerous because it can block sunlight from reaching the surface of the planet. It was this dust storm that damaged NASA's robot, Opportunity after not being able to recharge its power using sunlight. Apparently, this storm not only can damage the robot but also helps accelerate the loss of water on the red planet. This discover...

News24xx.com - Researchers from the Netherlands analyzed brain scans and found that the higher the fat in the body the lower the brain volume in some areas. Specifically, too much body fat is associated with a reduction in the amount of gray matter, the brain tissue that contains nerve cells in the middle part of the brain. According to a study published in the journal Radiology, the link ap...