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Hidden fat predicts Alzheimer’s 20 years ahead of symptoms

Researchers have linked a specific type of body fat to the abnormal proteins in the brain that are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease up to 20 years before the earliest symptoms of dementia appear, according to a study being presented today... Continue Reading →

Stereo Jupiter near Opposition

Jupiter looks sharp in these two rooftop telescope images. Both were captured last year on November 17 from Singapore, planet Earth, about two weeks after Jupiter's 2023 opposition. Climbing high in midnight skies the giant planet was a mere 33.4 light-minutes from... Continue Reading →

Wondering

A shadow falls where light once played,Dreams dissolve, their colors fade.The heart, once buoyed by hope's embrace,Now bears the weight of an empty space. The promise of dawn, a gilded lie,Clouded by doubts that veil the sky.Each step, a stone,... Continue Reading →

Heads UP! What’s Up: December 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA

This month, Venus dazzles as the "Evening Star," Jupiter reaches its brightest for the year, and the Geminid meteor shower peaks under challenging moonlit skies. Skywatching Highlights All Month – Planet Visibility: Mercury: Visible very low in the southeast just before... Continue Reading →

The Horsehead Nebula

One of the most identifiable nebulas in the sky, the Horsehead Nebula in Orion, is part of a large, dark, molecular cloud. Also known as Barnard 33, the unusual shape was first discovered on a photographic plate in the late 1800s. The red glow originates from hydrogen gas predominantly behind the nebula,... Continue Reading →

Memories

Beneath the moon’s pale, grieving glow,Where shadows stretch and whispers grow,Lies the ghost of what we used to be,A love now lost to memory. Your laughter lingered in the air,A fleeting warmth, a fleeting care.Now silence reigns where songs were... Continue Reading →

All people are unique – also in the gut

A new study from the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen increases our knowledge about the gut and the life of gut bacteria. The study shows, among other things, that changes in the gut environment... Continue Reading →

Ice Clouds over a Red Planet

If you could stand on Mars -- what might you see? You might look out over a vast orange landscape covered with rocks under a dusty orange sky, with a blue-tinted Sun setting over the horizon, and odd-shaped water clouds hovering high overhead. This... Continue Reading →

Silent Mind

Grief walks softly, uninvited, yet near,A shadowed whisper, a crystallized tear.It lingers in corners where silence grows,In the ache of a heart that only it knows. It speaks in echoes, a voice from the past,A fragile reminder that nothing can... Continue Reading →

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